after waiting for a week, the guy arrives to fix the line (telephone,television,internet,etc);;;;in a little van; he knocks at the door holding a screwdriver and a mutimeter, and wants to see my set-up. i tell him the problem is the fact that , as reported, the cables were lying shredded on the road a couple of hudred yards away ;;;;; he returns half an hour later saying he cant (lost apostrophe on french keyboard) do it because it means hell have to get on a ladder;;;;;;;;; guess whos going to ,have to wait for a long time for his normal internet?;;;;;;; it was easier in africa!;;;;;;france has never liked britanny;;;; no high speed trains, no motorways, ..... but they did say maybe in 2018 they might put in fibre optic cable so we can have proper broadband. by which time, there will be other means of connecting. meanwhile smoke signals would be more effective here;;; give me a cell mast for my cellphone, at least fix the bloody line;;;;; rant over for at least 20 minutes- the time it might take to post this status;;;;; ok this taking time::::::: have a joke: A farmer named Van was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Limpopo when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young black man in a n Armani suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the farmer, If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf? Van looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers; Sure, Why not? The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany . Within mere seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data is stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the farmer and says, You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves. Thats right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves, says Van He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then Van says to the young man, Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf? The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, Okay, why not? Youre a Member of Parliament for the ANC Party, says Van. Wow! Thats correct, says the yuppie, but how did you guess that? No guessing required!, answered the farmer. You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you dont know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep. . . .Now give me back my dog!;;;;;;; its now been 10 minutes::::::
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:55:46 +0000