{"id":202,"date":"2003-04-14T08:54:38","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T08:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/?p=202"},"modified":"2003-04-14T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T08:54:38","slug":"wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2003\/04\/14\/wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/july1-15_2002.htm#log110702\">remember<\/a> the amount of hassle I have with my Sky Digital subscription. I&#8217;m having hassle again. Sky have decided to &#8216;upgrade&#8217; their viewing cards. They have been sending out millions of new cards to their subscribers and kindly informing them that their old card will expire. So I should have been prepared for the complete loss of service on Friday night. I wasn&#8217;t. I got home after a hard week and was just settling down to enjoy an episode of The Simpsons when a message appeared on my screen: &#8220;This viewing card is not authorised&#8221;. It told me to replace my card with my new one. What new card? I didn&#8217;t get a new card. Cheers then.<\/p>\n<p>I phoned up their customer service and was told that I needed a new card. &#8220;But I never got one!&#8221;. The operator told me a new one would be sent out in the post on Monday and it should arrive in the next 5-10 days. Oh, right. So, can I use my old card in the meantime? No, you must wait for the new one to arrive. So I can&#8217;t watch any Sky TV then? Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>Regular readers will also remember that I can&#8217;t receive an analogue signal in Legoland. That&#8217;s why we have Sky in the first place. So no viewing for me at all then? So it would seem.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the first half of Southampton -v- Watford in the FA cup semi final on Radio 5 live. It was good and kept me informed, but lacked something. So we hoofed over to Helen&#8217;s parents and watched the second half there. A 2:1 victory was obtained. We haven&#8217;t been this far since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/southampton\/sport\/clubs\/saints\/fa_cup.shtml\">1976<\/a>. That year we also won the FA cup from Man United. Hopefully we can repeat that classic performance against Arsenal. We shall see\u0085<\/p>\n<p>We are moving house on Thursday. We can get TV through an Aerial in Buckingham. Oh to have basic services again. What joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will remember the amount of hassle I have with my Sky Digital subscription. I&#8217;m having hassle again. Sky have decided to &#8216;upgrade&#8217; their viewing cards. They have been sending out millions of new cards to their subscribers and kindly informing them that their old card will expire. So I should have been prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}