Dan Rooke’s Blog

After having finished watching the first season of ABC’s Lost many months ago as it was released in America, we were looking forward to the second season starting on 21/09.

The first episode was great, wrapping up a few open story lines whilst creating a few more to keep us hooked - It makes you both love and hate the story writters at the same time! Needless to say we’re looking forward to watching the rest of season two, whilst Channel Four are airing the remainder of season one.

I have just received confirmation that my move to Freedom 2 Surf from Pipex has been approved and will take place on 26/09.

We had problems with Pipex/BT when we moved house a couple of months ago now. The actual moving related problems weren’t too bad, but getting hold of customer services and their ’service’ was a different matter!Phoning up to request my MAC code on Monday morning was a good example- I was on hold for an hour and didn’t get through so I gave up. Iphoned back that evening before they closed and got through, howevertheir systems were down! I managed to request my MAC code on Tuesdaymorning after 20 minutes of discussing why I wanted to leave Pipex.

I waited the 72 hours to receive my code, no sign of it. I phoned back asking what was happening, it just hadn’t been processed by Pipex’s staff yet. Ten minutes later I had my MAC code and was signing up with Freedom 2 Surf. All went smoothly having received confirmation of migration by 16:30 yesterday.

I chose Freedom 2 Surf due to their consitently higher rating for Speed, Reliability and Customer Service (the most important!) than that of Pipex as reported by the excellent ADSL Guide. This combined with a better overall package and lower costs equating to a £9 per month saving clinched it for me.

Hopefully the rest of the migration process will proceed smoothly and I won’t have so much trouble with Freedom 2 Surf. If I do, at least I will be on a monthly contract and so free to move on again when I wish.

I officially finished at CCL last Friday (9th). I received lots of goodies, one of which was a carry case for Holly. This has been very useful already and hopefully will be throughout my final year at Uni.

I’ve had a great time at CCL and learnt a lot, I will miss several people there as well as getting computer kit at cost price!

I have now got until 26th September to get various things in order before starting back at Uni - One of these is my final year project. I have a few ideas floating about which I will need to research further - Wish me luck!!