I definitely need a dongle...

Back home to my lovely, lovely, working wifi router. Which I appreciate all the more after a long weekend where the only net access to be had was in the family business premises, which isn't so bad in itself, but the wretched device provided by Talktalk had forgotten how to be a wifi router, and would only condescend to provide uncorrupted packets via ethernet. Since the only ethernet cable available was the 2m one normally used for for setup and testing purposes...

I did use it to have a poke around various mobile provider websites, and it looks like Vodaphone are no longer offering the PAYG tariff llygoden was able to get (i.e the one where unused credit doesn't expire at the end of the month). The closest I've seen is something where you buy a fairly large wodge of credit that's valid for a year, but it's probably more credit than I'll actually use in a year, so will have to think about that.

I also need to either find my dialup cable, or buy a new one, because I didn't even have that as a back-up for emergency access, and it's a significant factor in retaining my Demon tenner-a-month dialup account -- the one you can't actually find on their website any more, because it is so out-moded.