O2 broadband fair use policy

I’m considering jumping ship from my current broadband provider. Reading the O2 fair use policy I found the below statement (my emphasis), which immediately endeared them to me:

You must not use the Services for:

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(d) sending or uploading unsolicited emails, advertising or promotional materials, offering to sell any goods or services, or conducting or forwarding surveys, contests or chain letters, except if you are working from home as a sole trader in business on your own account or you are a Business Customer and in either case you are permitted to send marketing communications in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003;

Those Crazy Brits

It’s cold today: two degrees below freezing. (That’s -2 degrees Celsius. Do you even use the expression “below freezing” when you’re using Fahrenheit? What does it mean?) I was visiting my parents in Norway over Christmas and it was milder there than over here. Less snow too. There was a few patches of snow left over from earlier snowfall at my parents, but I didn’t see it actually snowing until I came back to London.

Back to the cold. I’m not a fan, and I get teased a lot for this. When I complain about the cold people always look at me funny. “You shouldn’t be cold, you’re from Norway!” they say. (Somehow they manage to pronounce the italics.) Let me just tell you: we don’t like the cold either. We insulate our houses well, and bathrooms generally have under-floor heating. While single glazing is still common in the UK, double glazing has been the norm in Norway as long as I can remember. My parents’ house has had triple-glazing in the larger living-room windows since the late 70s.

But those crazy Brits! They seem to like the cold—at least some of them. As I walked to the Mail depot in Almeida street (about half a mile) to pick up a failed delivery I ran into no less than 5 people wearing shorts. To be fair one of them was out running and two more looked like they were about to play football. That still leaves two guys walking around doing their Saturday shopping wearing shorts at -2 degrees.

Da capo

This is where Stig Brautaset writes, as alluded to elsewhere.

I decided to start a fresh blog given that I just got married, and I’ve long felt stifled by the long history of uninteresting crap in my old blog. Enjoy!

Or not, as the case might be. I’m a boring old fart, really.