James Enck's Blog
A cry for help
I'm currently involved in a research project, the intention of which is to collect and analyze technical data around fiber deployments (FTTH/B/C/N/letter of your choice), with a view to benchmarking deployment costs against the technology choices and physical constraints of real-world projects. If you're involved, or have been involved, in a real-world fiber project, and are willing and able to share some detailed data on an anonymized basis, please ping me, and I can fill you in on the project in more detail. More...
Facebook creates orphans
Put the iPhone down, and step away from the Kool Aid dispenser
The last time I checked, the future started about eight years ago. More...
Note to self
The vast majority of you probably don't care about my sporadic musical activities. So, my heartfelt apologies go out to you. The other day I erroneously posted an account of my recent musical adventures to this blog. I realized my gaffe within seconds and removed the post, but RSS is an unforgiving medium, so it was immortalized, despite my best efforts. Onward and upward.
Diverted
Fiberfete, via coax
B(j)orked
Washed away
While much of the rest of the world has been preoccupied with the sickening spectacle of tech bloggers publicly making love to their iPads, or alternatively dissecting them in search of a bone of St. Peter or some other indication of divine significance, here in the UK we have been witnessing the humiliating travesty of the Digital Economy Bill being pushed through the soon-to-be-dissolved Parliament in a process called "wash-up," which conceptually is perhaps most similar to a drug dealer hastily flushing his gear down a toilet when the jig is up. However, in this case the effluent is poorly drafted legislation, and it will probably have a much more toxic legacy than a bit of waterlogged skag flushed into the Thames. More...
Not your average Guy
Lock the door, innit
Hi James Enck,
Welcome to Virgin Media! It's great to have you with us, and we hope you're already enjoying getting stuck in to your new services.
At Virgin Media, we want to make sure we give you the best customer service out there. That's why we'd really like to find out how things went for you when you joined us. More...


