Someone really should do a study on the psychological effects of listening to white noise for prolonged periods of time. I can’t quite describe the feeling when I take the headphones off, but it’s very strange. Which means that my testing of this variable delay is going relatively slowly.

I just got a message from ihug regarding the activation date for my broadband account.

We’re waiting for Telecom to activate ihug broadband on your phone line so that you can start enjoying your broadband connection. This should happen on 06–04-2006. This is a tentative date that Telecom has given us and is subject to change (if Telecom do change this date we’ll email to let you know).

The clock on my computer tells me that it is currently 30–03-2006. It’s a whole week to flip a switch? Tentatively? Sure, this process crosses corporate boundries, but this isn’t even an on-site call.

It’s hard to imagine whay so many people put up with the crap that Telecom deals out. There’s a reason why I wasn’t willing to sign up for broadband through them. In my mind, it wasn’t even an option.