The iiNet Story

When we moved just before Christmas, we decided to shop around for home internet. We elected to sign a 24 month contract with iiNet.

This was a terrible error of judgment.

The following is a full chronological account of my experiences with iiNet. It is long, but this is legitimately the minimum amount of words I could use to document every moment of incompetence.

iiNet - a #2. Finally, truth in advertising.

Cold Sport Newz~!

Cold rather than hot because some of this is old newz~!

This edition features a selection of stuff I wanted to rant about over the last few months but it was too hard due to experiencing "technical difficulties" still not fully resolved.

(There will be a story about that debacle when it is fully resolved. Unless something radically changes, it's not going to be very favourable to companies represented in advertising by smug Irish backpackers wearing bad sweaters.)

Let's get to the newz~!

Eurovision 2015: My Votes Are In!

For the first time in years, I watched Eurovision. Not live, the replay. I'm not getting up at 5:00am on a Sunday. I like to sleep in. So I get up at 5:40am when one of my children starts screaming, bring them into our bed, get headbutted and kicked for the next two hours, before getting up before you do anyway. A nice lie in to start a lazy Sunday.

Anyway, I watched Eurovision and they forgot to count my votes!

I greeted Vienna with "Hello, Lounge Room calling, here are the votes from Rob..." and got the disconnected tone.

So here are my points to be added on:

One of the Best Days of the Year

Tomorrow the NSW State of Origin team is named. I think it is one of the best days in the year. 

Things I Don't Understand, Part Three

This one is all about technology.

Yes, I am saying I don't understand the main driving force for the advancement of humanity over at least the last few centuries. It's no big deal.

The following is a selection of my problems with technology:

Things I Don't Understand, Part Two

Here are some more things I don't understand...

ABC4Kids - Official Power Rankings

As a parent, you start with strong principles, and gradually erode them. So on watching TV, we were of the view it would be none to minimal. Then it was a small amount each day as part of a routine. Now it's whenever they are hysterically upset, fighting each other, hysterically upset because they're fighting each other, or we need to do something uninterrupted - it can be anything from 30 minutes to all the time, daily.

So I've watched a lot of ABC4Kids and feel confident in the accuracy of the following power rankings. 

You can feel confident in the ratings too, knowing this is a scientific endeavour with a rigorous mathematical scoring system. 

I used three equally-weighted criteria, on a 0-3 scale.