Hot, dry, adiabatic wind from the North-West battering at the trees. Too hot for serious work, too dry for transplanting. Blowing so hard I can't even offload the horse-shit I collected on Friday into a compost bin; it would all just get blown right back into my face.
No rain in sight.
I seem to have lost the seed I had for a very nice-looking Golden Wax Bush Bean. The couple of plants that have made it will have to do for seed saving. The one bean I tasted was spectacular, and I really need a couple of good bush varieties to use as interplants. As I recall, the seed was one of those packets from Baker Creek that was less-than-satisfactory. Along with the Golden Beet I was so looking forward to, what I got was dismal germination rates, and very low plant vigor.
Moan, moan, moan.
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17 June 2007
30 June 2006
Telkom Disconnected
Telkom, the state-owned (and still monopoly) phone company is one of my favourite crowds to rag on. They make it so easy!
The phone is sort-of-dead this morning. Loud crackling noises; people unable to call in - the phone bleeps briefly and the caller gets cut off; crossed line with neighbours down the road. The problem has been the subject of numerous fault callouts over the past 6 or 8 months, and has never been solved.
Tried several times to log the fault by phone. First had to discover that, because it is a DSL line, the fault must be reported to a different call-centre whose phone number utterly fails to appear on any documentation. Several attempts to call needed, because I keep getting disconnected from the call-centre mid-conversation due to the fault.
Inspiration: At least the DSL is still working, so let's see if I can log the fault via Telkom's website! Fill in the relevant details on the fault-reporting page; click "Submit".
OnlineFaultReporting web exception
We appologise for the inconvenience,
but the page that you requested can not be processed correctly. Please report this to the system administrator.
Copied from the Telkom website: misspellings all their own.
But! There's no "Contact the webmaster" link to be found on their website. Oh well, back to trying to phone the fault in.
Please, God, give these buggers some real competition and put them out of business soon.
The phone is sort-of-dead this morning. Loud crackling noises; people unable to call in - the phone bleeps briefly and the caller gets cut off; crossed line with neighbours down the road. The problem has been the subject of numerous fault callouts over the past 6 or 8 months, and has never been solved.
Tried several times to log the fault by phone. First had to discover that, because it is a DSL line, the fault must be reported to a different call-centre whose phone number utterly fails to appear on any documentation. Several attempts to call needed, because I keep getting disconnected from the call-centre mid-conversation due to the fault.
Inspiration: At least the DSL is still working, so let's see if I can log the fault via Telkom's website! Fill in the relevant details on the fault-reporting page; click "Submit".
OnlineFaultReporting web exception
We appologise for the inconvenience,
but the page that you requested can not be processed correctly. Please report this to the system administrator.
Copied from the Telkom website: misspellings all their own.
But! There's no "Contact the webmaster" link to be found on their website. Oh well, back to trying to phone the fault in.
Please, God, give these buggers some real competition and put them out of business soon.
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