There's dozens of people in Orange cranky about the poor NBN service but there's other unbelievable goings-on that would make a comedy movie if they weren't so serious.

In one, a truck on February 11 clipped and brought down a low NBN line strung across Clinton Street, leaving a resident without any service and totally frustrated because of Telstra's and NBN's inaction to fix it after four hour-long sessions off-shore via a friend's phone over four different days.

Well and truly fired up, the resident also complained to Orange MPs Phil Donato and Andrew Gee, the communications minister, the Opposition communication spokesperson, the communications Ombudsman and everyone else he could think of.

He was eventually promised a technician would be there on Tuesday, February 21 between 1pm and 5pm, but he failed to turn up. After another call via the friend's phone he was told a technician would come again on Friday, February 24 between 8am and 12pm.

He turned up at 12.30pm, looked at the broken line, which a resident had rolled up and taped to a pole across the road, and decided there was nothing he could do because he wasn't allowed to climb a ladder higher than three metres.

Instead, he took photos of the broken line to send to superiors at Dubbo, but he didn't expect anything would be done until Essential Energy – the government authority that looks after our electricity network – had a spare cherry picker that a technician could use to get up and do the job.

That could take weeks because there had to be enough jobs in a day to warrant an Orange visit.

Can you believe things like this can happen? Would people in Point Piper or Darling Point accept it? No, but we're in the bush.

The government needs to put a rocket under Telstra and NBN. And bring back the 25 or so local technicians that have been sacked.

IT’S interesting Domino's pizza is using voice-based technology like Apple's Siri for customers to order online.

Well, that's the intention, but wish Domino’s luck because if you've tried to have a sensible conversation with Apple's voice-activated Siri on your iPhone you'll know it's a pretty difficult job talking to a robot.

Siri, who has a part-human, part-robot voice, no doubt gets confused by some simple phrases like this one Stop Press used: “I'd like to order a lamb tzatziki pizza, please”.

There's a brief silence while Siri ponders the request. “Sorry, I didn't quite get that ...”

“I'd like to order a lamb tzatziki pizza.”

Another long silence. “Sorry, I'm not sure what you said.”

“I want to know whether you can understand me?”

Another brief silence and then Siri replies: “OK, you want the weather.”

Good luck, Domino’s. You'll need it.

THE Australian Mint has produced a coloured limited edition 50-cent coin featuring three-time world F1 champion Sir Jack Brabham.

Sir Jack had strong links to Orange, starting his road racing career here on the old Gnoo Blas racing track around the Forest Road hospital.