Failure is the Key to Success http://blog.ijhedges.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.ijhedges.comhttp://blog.ijhedges.com/images/main.jpgFailure is the Key to SuccessFailureIsTheKeyToSuccesshttp://feedburner.google.com My Tweets for the week 2010-03-14 http://blog.ijhedges.com/2010/03/14/my-tweets-for-the-week-2010-03-14/ http://blog.ijhedges.com/2010/03/14/my-tweets-for-the-week-2010-03-14/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:30:00 +0000 Ian http://blog.ijhedges.com/2010/03/14/my-tweets-for-the-week-2010-03-14/
  • V slow into Hocklife. Q to Heath & Reach #
  • Roadworks on A5 in Hockliffe. Long queues #
  • At Red Priest concert in MK @StablesMK. Great #
  • Back from The Stables MK. Red Priest were brilliant. After watching Piers, I feel like a complete beginner. Oh well, keep practicing. #
  • Last practice at Dunstable Music Centre this morning. Dress rehearsal next week and concert on Sat 27th at Manshead School at 9:30 #
  • Seen the devastation that the clearance of the railway line in Dunstable has wrecked. For a busway that the people of Dunstable don't want #

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  • @EleLucy Also used to go to the 'sheaf in late 80s early 90s. Lost touch with all the old crowd. Hadn't really thought about until now. in reply to EleLucy #

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    ]]>     http://blog.ijhedges.com/2010/03/07/my-tweets-for-the-week-2010-03-07/feed/ 0     Increasing my broadband speed http://blog.ijhedges.com/2010/03/06/increasing-my-broadband-speed/ http://blog.ijhedges.com/2010/03/06/increasing-my-broadband-speed/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:48:35 +0000 Ian http://blog.ijhedges.com/?p=452 I was looking on the VirginMedia website to find the cost of adding Caller ID to my telephone line and noticed that the prices they were quoting for 10MB broadband were £12.50, half the price I was paying.

    So I rang them up and renegotiated my package. I have upgraded my broadband to a 20MB connection, removed the sports channels, added Caller ID and am still £15 a month better off.

    Speedtest results for VirginMedia 10MB connection

    I had to enter into a new 12 month contract with VirginMedia, that’s not a problem, I’ve been with them (and NTL before them) for over 10 years. The moral of this story is not to assume that you are on the best deal available, ring up and let them work out the best package for you.

    I thought I’d check out my connection. The image above is my 10MB connection just after I got off the phone. It took overnight for the Caller ID to be added and a day and a half for the broadband and TV changes. Below is my new 20MB connection.

    Speedtest results for VirginMedia 20MB connection

    Quite a way off of the doubling I was expecting, but maybe Saturday’s a bad day to test.

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  • Another snowy morning. Half inch or so of snow on the ground and still falling. 1/10 LU6 #uksnow #
  • Getting a bit heavier, snow is steady now 3/10 LU6 #uksnow #
  • Ewwww. Our cat is lazy. Rather than go out to her bowl for a drink, she stuck her head in my glass and helped herself. Only water..but..ewww #
  • Heavy traffic south into Dunstable. Idiot in blue car ND08 PYU forced down opposite lane and back in at lights. Then ahead from right lane #
  • Chatting on handheld mobile all the time. Carved up a white van on the lights, wonder how many others saw him. Pity no unmarked police car #

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  • Sad day today. At lunchtime we had to have the younger of our two cats put to sleep. She was 13 years old. We still have her mother. #
  • Ah! snow again. Woke up to light snow in Dunstable this morning. A dusting on the cars and the road. Bound to be chaos. #uksnow 1/10 LU6 #
  • I just took the Channel 4 Dispatches primary school maths quiz: http://bit.ly/9eQ4co Doh! got one wrong. #
  • The white stuff falling in Dunstable again 2/10 LU6 #uksnow #
  • Shane Rich of oncemany.com is giving away a booking for his custom photo shoot project on 17th March http://is.gd/8PIdb #

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  • Watching a collared dove eating nyjer seeds from the feeder. I thought only goldfinches and alike ate it! #

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  • Playing swordplay on Wii Sports resort…must remember to breathe #
  • OK, that's got to tell me my wife is tired. She just fell asleep sitting next to me while I was playing my trumpet without the practice mute #

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  • Feed Informer who provide the combined RSS feed that I embed on my website homepage are not encoding the & causing validation to fail :( #
  • @jamiemcclennan so you're not missing the cold weather over here then? Hope the tour goes well in reply to jamiemcclennan #
  • Feed Informer http://bit.ly/9gVLoI have fixed the validation problem with their code. Nice job guys. #
  • Just caught the cat as she ran off with a piece of blue stilton cheese from my daughter's plate. #
  • Snowing in Dunstable #uksnow LU6 1/10. Not due a lot, but then it wasn't due till mid afternoon. #
  • Snow stopped in Dunstable. Was it worth it? #uksnow LU6 0/10 #

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  • 3 emails in 3 weeks from Find My Past trying to get me to re-subscribe. Wonder how many they lost over the 1911 Census http://bit.ly/6yruxx #
  • @piperoflove Nice header image in reply to piperoflove #
  • It's going to be a busy month musically in March. Just found out Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham are playing at The Stables, MK on 30th March #
  • Going to see Red Priest http://bit.ly/8W0fe5 on 10th March at The Stables, MK . Looking forward to seeing how the recorder should be played #
  • Seeing Simon Mayer & The Mandolinquents at The Stables, MK on 12th March http://bit.ly/5AXQqD. Saw them last year http://bit.ly/7qnj1Y #
  • At the Royal Albert Hall for Classical Spectacular http://bit.ly/6rXBMT on 20th March. Circle seats this time. #
  • On 27th March Dunstable Music Centre will have their end of term concert. That sounds a long way off, but I bet it won't be. #
  • Twitter not happy 'Service Temporarily Unavailable' #
  • RT @ScottBourne: Nailed It! – Osprey in flight catching his dinner – http://bit.ly/4PwQtB – #photog – Great shot #
  • 'Dowsing Rod' bomb detector banned for export from next week http://bit.ly/4W39gq Iraq government spent $85m on hand held detectors #
  • Photographers protest later today over UK terror search laws http://bit.ly/4S3cZM #
  • Footage in Mexico's Cave of Crystals for the BBC series How the Earth Made Us http://bit.ly/7yipPn #

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  • Snowing in Dunstable again. I wonder if this is start of the heavy snnow we're due #uksnow LU6 1/10 #
  • While playing in my new treble recorder, my daughter said she could play the tune. She plays descant and now apparently treble as well. #
  • Doh! Forgot to get more milk yesterday and forget to get another loaf of bread from the freezer. Toast from frozen for breakfast #
  • Off to Dunstable Music Centre this morning. First day back since Christmas. Was closed due to snow last week. #

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