There’s not much of a component on sim cards, just those little bits of metal, but the newer ones have started to skimp out on the little once square metal bits.

I’ve switched to TPG after 9 long years with telstra bigpond broadband. It was thaaat bad, but there were regressions. [oh look, we're learning about regression in econometrics! But I'm not talking about that sort of regression, although you could put it into an equation of Decline_in_Internet_Quality = Years.x + u .... One year without doing econometrics has really wiped with away from my mind ]
TPG already has its setups and downs.

Firstly, the phone didn’t work for a while (but that could be attributed to the telstra phone line) whereas the adsl did work.

Secondly, they took about 20 days to send my sim card [the aforepictured] and spare central filter (I over-ordered since I didn’t think they’d include one) and that was only after I emailed them to complain.

Then they sent me another central filter even though I told them I wanted to cancel receiving that central filter so now I have 3 [the original one is being used even though the Dynalink rta1025w includes one. Oh... well fine its the netcomm version because it looked better but is just a rebrand.].

So now I have to post it back.

In other news, I’ve been taking around a moleskine to jot down random ideas, thoughts, queries and so forth that my computer stuffups can’t process as quickly as they should. I’ve been writing in it everyday so that’s pretty good.
I think I might just turn off my comp and find a keyboard cleaning guide since the i key popped off..
just how do i pop open the other keys? because now the i key is working wonderfully.