New Website

Hairy Goat Media has a new website.

Find me at http://www.hairygoat.org

Blogging...

Isn't it funny how blogging is one of those things you never get around to... but when you do, you end up posting several posts all at once... then nothing for a few months.

Twitter

Everyone loves Web 2.0 toys - so check visit Hairy Goat Media on Twitter: http://twitter.com/HairyGoatMedia

Global financial crisis hits Hairy Goat Media

That's right, Hairy Goat Media has been struck down by the global financial crisis. As a result all posting had been suspended pending bailout from government authorities.

US President Obama has just announced a 100 billion dollar bailout of Hairy Goat Media. The money arrived in the mail today - Hairy Goat is back!

Firefox Chrome Registration Error

I thought I'd use my blog to pass on answers to annoying problems I've had, and how I managed to fix them. So here's the first "installment".

For a month or so, every time I started Firefox I received the following error:

Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem.

If I clicked on "OK" the message repeated several times. Then Firefox would work as normal. Nothing serious, but really annoying.

To fix the problem I simply right clicked the Firefox icon, and then selected "Run as administrator". No more errors!

It seems that there had been an error installing some add-ons, and all it required was Administrator access to fix the problem.

I'm back!

After months of frustration I've finally ditched Vodafone, and have a landline ADSL2 connection installed. And the 24 megabits is great!

The Vodafone connection has been so bad I haven't been able to get on here to post anything - but as of today Vodafone are gone!

My First Vent - Vodafone 3G Wireless Broadband

I've decided to use my blog as an outlet to vent my frustration of bad service, bad products or just anything that pisses me off.

The first company on my target list is Vodafone Australia.

Earlier this year when we moved house, we found that Telstra (maybe they should be my first vent???) had removed the phone connection from the house and required $299 to reinstall it.

I wasn't too happy about having to pay that as you can imagine, so I decided to investigate wireless. I found that Vodafone Australia offer a 3G Wireless connection, where you get 5 gig of data for $39.95 per month, with speeds of up to 1.5 megabits.

So I signed up for a 24 month contract. All sounds pretty good. But the problem is, that like me, thousands of people signed up for the same deal. So what should be broadband speeds, turned out to be less than dial up for 3 times the price. And there are also frequent disconnections (I'm talking 15 - 20 per evening).

And don't even talk about their help desk service where a computer named Lara can't understand what you are talking about.

So if you are thinking wireless broadband, don't think Vodafone!