Martin McDowell's Blog

Well, this has happened much faster than the last time I tried this, of course, using another broadband provider certainly helps and the key is probably in the name as well: the company’s name is Fast. They sent me a mail on Thursday tellimg me the connection is up and running since 8.09 AM. I [...]

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I have joined the hoard of internet users around the worls and started using Facebook. I haven’t used it much but so far I am very impressed in the overall system. Really well thought out and programed. No wonder Google and Microsoft have appetites in the company. It is assumed to be worth around 10 [...]

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After a one year sebaticle I finally got the chance to do some skydiving again. The best thing about it, besides, of course, skydiving, was that I could do it at my old home drop zone Prečna in Novo mesto in the southern part of Slovenia. The other good part was that I could jump [...]

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After spending a very wet summer in the UK where it was one of the wettest summers in recorded UK weather history and witnessing two bouts of flooding. I then return to Slovenia on early Tuesday morning for a two week break and what happened? Terrential rain that caused flooding and landslides. I swear, it [...]

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Started off from a sunny Johnston on Sunday at about 11.25 am and arrived in Ljubljana early this morning at about 1 am. The trip took me all through Pembrokeshire and the south of Wales, crossing the second Severn bridge to England while on the M4, getting to London and then down to Folkestone in [...]

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Ne vem kateremu BT božanstvu se imam za zahvalit ampak danes so se končno zmigali in mi prišli priklopit telefonsko linijo. Zadeva je bila urejena v kakih petih minutah, saj je bilo že vse priklopljeno v centrali. Vse kar je moral narediti je test linije in test telefona. Telefonski test ni bil uspešen, ker tip [...]

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No, še ta teden gre mimo, potem pa grem na pot. Če bo šlo vse po načrtih, se odpravim v nedeljo zjutraj in se vmes ustavim še pri očetu, nato pa do Folkestone-a na vlak, ki pelje pod Rokavskim prelivom, potem pa v tem vrstnem redu: Francija, Belgija, Nizozemska, Nemčija, Avstrija in potem domača Slovenija. [...]

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Spet ena na temo bantu Britanije… Če slučajno koga že en čas nisem kontaktiral oz. ka poklical preko Skype-a je to zato, ker mi ta k***** British Telecom (BT) še vedno ni prišel aktivirat telefonske linije, ki je žal edina možna pot za dostop do interneta. BT se pač obnaša kot monopolist in se jim [...]

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