Organic donation

[undyingking]

St Peter's Brewery sends out an irregular email newsletter, with offers and so on, but it doesn't actually include a link to, or even the url of, their website so you can go and buy stuff. Charming amateurishness in this over-commercialized age, or bewildering incompetence?

Anyway, they currently have Organic Ale and Organic Best on special, to mark National Organic Week or some such bibble -- that's £16 for 12 * 500ml bottles, down from £22. Add a fiver for shipping, that's still pretty good value I reckon, for two very nice beers.

Every now and then they clear short-dated beer out at just £10 or £12 a case, which is clearly even better value. So it's worth signing up to the newsletter, even if you then have to oh-so-laboriously use your bookmark to go to the site.

In other annoyance news, my wireless network connection has decided to go on the blink today: it keeps going in and out every few minutes, causing web sessions to drop and so on. I am at fairly long range for the aerials, but it normally works OK. Obvious suspicion was that one of the cats was sitting on the router, but no. Maybe next door has installed a big electromagnet: I heard a load of banging earlier. Have any of you experimented with Pringles-tube-waveguides etc to improve wireless transmission?

Comments

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Oh, you evil swine :)

Have previously only seen their rather lovely beers up at the Jerusalem Tavern up near Moorgate station.

I'm not entirely sure that knowing they ship is a good thing...

(One of these days, I'll get round to brewing at a schedule that means we don't need to buy much in the way of beer, but until then...)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Charming amateurishness in this over-commercialized age, or bewildering incompetence?

Spam filter avoidance?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

They have plenty of other links in the message, just not one to their own site...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm out of sneaky suggestions now. ;-(

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Oooh, hmmm, tempting...
Shipping seems to have gone up, though. It'd be £7.76 for one case of Organic Best Bitter.

[(Anonymous)]

I bought a bottle of their Amarillo in Sainsburys, one of the finalists of their Beer of Britain promotion. I can't decide whether the murky colour reminds me more of the water in their moat or a specimen from somebody with a nasty disease.

I'll crack it tonight and report back at the weekend.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

That was me

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I'll crack it tonight

Is that the way to (drink) Amarillo?

wireless

[(Anonymous)]

"Obvious suspicion was that one of the cats was sitting on the router"

I would try changing the channel used by the router, the most likely explanation is that one of your neighbor's has bought a router that is transmitting on the same channel. This can lead to what you describe if you are at the extreme end of the range.

Re: wireless

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

Doh logged in now!

Re: wireless

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for suggestion, I've given that a go now so we shall see!

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

you know my immediate thought on seeing the title was to wonder who was coming and hacking part of you off :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Have any of you experimented with Pringles-tube-waveguides etc to improve wireless transmission?

No, because my router (a WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware) has an option to increase the power. Your router might have that too. In the unlikely event that you care, note that it may be possible to exceed legal broadcasting limits, which I think might be 100mW for those frequencies in the UK.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Bah, mine doesn't seem to have such an option. I've tried canging to a different channel tho as suggested above, we shall see.