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    Powercut!!!!!

    An hour without electricity.

    How the hell is one supposed to interact with the outside world! Ah yes. iPhone and 3g.

    Normally this would be the start of a baby boom. But wait! Fully charged iPad and choice of movies.

    I love technology.
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

    #2
    UPS up and running is it?

    Energy crisis is here people.. or has Swindon not got any wind?
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #3
      Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
      An hour without electricity.

      How the hell is one supposed to interact with the outside world! Ah yes. iPhone and 3g.

      Normally this would be the start of a baby boom. But wait! Fully charged iPad and choice of movies.

      I love technology.
      C'mon dear chap, get yourself an APC 5000VA UPS and it will kick in automatically and you won't even realise.

      And in a few years, just buy a portable generator that's slaved to your mains for a seemless switchover when the windmills fail to provide the peak load supply.
      If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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        #4
        ffs, get on yer bike and start generating some power for the grid!

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          #5
          Originally posted by AtW View Post
          ffs, get on yer bike and start generating some power for the grid!
          Put another 50p in the meter, AtW; you're paying for the next new power station.
          My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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            #6
            Booked the morning to go and reset all the clocks on the gadgets in the house.

            I bloody hate technology.
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #7
              Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

              Booked the morning to go and reset all the clocks on the gadgets in the house.

              I bloody hate technology.
              My main non-PC clock I rely on gets it's time, and automatically adjusts itself, from a radio signal.
              Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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                #8
                When my Broadband went down last year, I thought, haha, no problem, whipped out the laptop and the 3G dongle...

                But the underlying problem was at the telephone exchange - and by co-incidence that exchange had a nice mobile phone mast perched on top of it - the same bloody mast that my dongle was trying to access 3G through

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