Don’t go anywhere near Eclipse if you ever want to download. Doesn’t matter if you have the top end unlimited package. Eclipse throttle ALL downloads. – Vambo

At 3am I can get a good 375kbs but at any normal time of the day I’m lucky to get around 50kbs. avoid them like the plague. – Not a Happy Man

Internet access is a total lottery and download speeds are pathetic. – Gabby

They still can’t get their act together to send an accurate final bill. I do not recommend Eclipse Internet Broadband. Ever. - Afmspace

Phoned their IT department to try and sort out the problems and in my opinion they were useless. - mdyches

Even though an unlimited, 8MB connection is promised, I continuously find it hard to reach a speed of 512kb - chimp14uk

So it appears i’m not alone, a large collection of bad reviews all documenting similar problems of poor service and terrible support. Unfortunately the broadband is paid for by parents as i’m staying at theirs for the summer and there is nothing I can do other than weather it out as they appear to be quite happy with it even with mine and my sisters complaints. While at university I have used ask4 and virgin broadband, both delivered me full 20Mbit broadband with no problems, we had one disruption with the virgin broadband and within a couple of hours of our call it was fixed I hate to imagine how long its taken eclipse to fix outages proof of their slowness is just a google away. Anyway less of the ranting, i’m off to look for an effective broadband package for going back to uni and possibly my own mobile broadband package for when at home.

So far as I understand it tumblr began as a micro-blogging platform growing up in the same pond as the likes of twitter. The one thing that makes tumblr stand out is that its posts are organized based upon type of content rather than arbitrary categories and/or tags. This appealed to me and upon signing up I began to figure out how to innovativly utilize this new online “tool”. I eventually decided upon using it as another distribution point for my blog as recently I had been posting just images or very short text only posts and didn’t want them clogging up or distracting from the interesting article posts so these short posts would go on tumblr and everything else would go on the blog. This works for me and as I just post image or text only tumblr posts I decided to have them primarily shown on my blog and syndicated on tumblr so I could continue my involvement with the community there, a result of that has been the development of a tumblr plugin for wordpress so no I don’t believe that tumblr should be restricted to any one single idea, it is just another medium, channel of distribution, tool or what ever you choose to label it and I have used it in my own unique way just like many others have.

With all that said, I would like to see a trunication of posts in the dashboard so it doesn’t get clogged up with huge tumblrs, showing the first 300 or so words from the post with the option to view more would be useful and that was my original point although looking back I can see I didn’t put it across very well, or at all by the looks of it…

I like all my content to be based in one location and that location is photogabble, this is why I don’t use flickr or any other sort of community thing to publish my work through (other than deviantart). As you can guess this also means that although I really like being part of the tumblr community, I’d rather not have my content be just there and syndicated on photogabble. Instead I have opted for creating a new category called tumblrs on here and syndicated that feed on tumblr a feature which upon realising, I was very pleased and impressed with. However there are two problems with tumblrs’ feeds both with production and syndication. Impressively it can import any RSS feed you give it with the following fixed settings: Import as links, links with description, text without titles or photos. Initially I can see one distinct problem with that listing, the lack of importing text with titles however I looked beyond this and tried it out. This is where I hit a snag, one would expect that if you asked tumblr to import text without titles then it would import everything from the <content:encoded> tag and ignore the rest. Retrospectively upon selecting to import as links with description I would expect it to import the <title> and <description> tags, I suppose in that case it probably is what happens however my biggest problem with tumblrs syndication is that when I choose import text without titles it doesn’t collect from the content tag, rather choosing to stick with the description tag which makes absolutely no sense at all because the description is truncated at a certain word length and with no link back to the original all I’m going to get on my tumblr is a bunch of half posts with no link to source.

You may well realise that this is a huge problem and one which should be remedied, however my second problem with tumblrs’ feeds is with the production as they just don’t validate and make it very difficult for me to write a script plugin for wordpress so I can import all my tumblrs from tumblr and place them in my tumblrs category here, a method which would give me greater control over my content even though it would mean having to publish from the tumblr dashboard rather than all (blog and tumblrs) from the wordpress dashboard.

Lastly I believe my love affair with tumblr could become solidified if the ability to import text with titles was introduced and this bug of importing descriptions rather than content where to be fixed. Other than that it is an amazing service with a awesome user base to which I have no further disagreements with.