I used to
run a pretty busy website (still extremely busy, but I have very little to do with it these days), and one day we were featured on "Tonight with Trevor MacDougal"

Just before that though, my house had caught fire and was flooded too (long story), and we had to move to a house about half a mile away.

There was no TV reception (too low to get a signal), no mobile phone reception (same reason) and no phone or internet.

I had to get on-line for the programme being aired as we were expecting an influx of new forum members (the site went down after about a million hits sadly), and so made the now infamous pringe-tube antenna. Worked a treat. The cheap git only had a 2 meg line though - and while he had open shares, I did not peek.

I started to take the piss when I bought a Skype-in number and a USB phone so I could make calls though.
(dchurch bah, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 21:45, Reply)