My BT broadband speed seems to have settled at 2,720Mb/s over the last few days. It seems that BT are playing games again….

When I phoned them today to ask what was going on they promptly offered to reduce my monthly payments…. took me almost 2 seconds to accept!

All looks OK for the moment… but then of course it always does.

Fingers crossed.

Yet another blog upgrade completed!

This time I chose a slightly different method which made things a lot easier. I used the WP Plugin called WordPress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) which is available as a free download here.

Everything seems to be working so I think I’ll leave it be for a while!

Well that’s exactly how I feel about WordPress! As I mentioned earlier, I hadn’t bothered with the last few upgrades and finally took the plunge with v2.5.1. Guess what? a few days later and along comes v2.6!

Anyhow, it’s now installed, again without problems and everything looks fine… let’s just hope it stays that way.

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To an ISP It is indistinguishable from a real person. It performs intelligent decisions about where to surf and combines multiple search engines with millions of contextual search subjects and general interest links.
The engine features cross references in subject threads, back peddles along re-searching threads, revisits history during a session, recursive branching, subject thread and page lingering, gone-away modes and exhaustive search abandonment. It uses natural time delays based on search interest, page size and link return quality and it is throttled to prevent heavy traffic recognition or misuse.”

For more details: http://www.antiphorm.com/

I registered the domain some years ago and now have no further need for it – if you’d like it please leave a comment and an offer.

If you want the internet to remain the relatively open and free place it is today and you want your browsing habits to remain personal, I suggest you read it and visit the links in his post.

Of all the options I’ve looked at, this seems the simplest to use and the least intrusive – it’s very much “setup and forget” with just a small icon appearing in your Windows system tray. You just tell the system what and when to backup and InterVault Lite gets on with it! Your data is safely, securely and quickly copied to a data centre where it is stored until you need it.

The normal monthly costs are very reasonable but, you don’t have to pay those as I have negotiated a special deal for readers of this weblog, if you sign up using the promo code BC2008, the prices are reduced to:

Sign up for your free trial by clicking here or on the graphic above – either way, remeber to enter the promotion code BC2008 – if you don’t, you won’t be offered the special prices!

Can anyone think of a good idea? It can involve databases, forums or pretty much anything else.. over to you…