My broadband connection has started working again. It's been down for three days, and annoying as I was finding it I was also rather hoping it would stay down until the NTL engineer arrived, so that he could see it being down right in front of him and also so it would be obvious whether he'd really fixed anything or not. Now I have a nasty feeling he'll prod ineffectually at it and fail to address the root cause.

Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea to find an alternative means of receiving broadcast TV and say goodbye to NTL completely…