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Sun, 05 Dec 2004
Got myself a new truck the other week. Rather unimaginatively its the same make and model as my old truck (a Dodge Durango) but, as they say over here, its an 'all new' model. The new truck has major benefits over the old one including brakes that work, headlights that light the way, heated seats, suspension that dulls road imperfections rather than amplifying them and, most importantly, a really good stereo.
Oh and er, yeah, its got a Hemi :-D.
Posted @ 16:12 | Category: /misc | Permalink
Mon, 15 Nov 2004
Scary new toy. This purchase has been brewing for a good while but what finally tipped the balance was checking out how much a load of logs would cost to have delivered and noting how many fallen trees we have in the woods at the back of our garden. A mornings work in the woods and now we're stocked up on logs for winter. All together now, 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...'.
Now, anyone with an axe who fancies a doing a bit of log splitting, just let me know.
Posted @ 07:47 | Category: /misc | Permalink
Mon, 27 Sep 2004
NTL customers told to 'f**k off'.
A Freudian slip if ever there was one.
Posted @ 15:36 | Category: /misc | Permalink
Sat, 25 Sep 2004
TCP/IP over Bluetooth
We've been working on some mobile Java stuff recently in my group at work and have been doing some testing on my Nokia 3650. Stuff is sort of working but the GPRS gateway seems to stick in loads of HTTP header cruft and also seems to be mangling data in the payload. I've been looking for a way to connect directly between the phone and the computer hosting the server we're testing but was having no luck until I stumbled on to Share2Blue2th, a set of AppleScripts that share a Macs network connection over bluetooth. The scripts set the computer up to route IP and allow the phone to talk to anything reachable from the computer via IP. Cool. Should make testing a whole lot easier.
As an added bonus, now I'm not burning my data quota I can play with Mobile Opera and AgileMessenger to my hearts content.
Posted @ 21:13 | Category: /tech | Permalink
Welcome
I see you've found your way over to the new blog, welcome. I'd have stuck where I was but unfortunately the software I was using for my old blog (Greymatter) doesn't support any of the latest blogging protocols and I wanted to give MarsEdit a try. I've been using NetNewsWire Lite for an age so when they brought out an accompanying editor I thought I'd check it out. It talks to MetaWeblog and Blogger APIs and supports local Blosxom weblogs too. Being perverse I decided to use Blosxom on my hosted site rather than locally but found this handy XML-RPC plugin that adds support for MetaWeblog to Blosxom. As you can see, its seems to be working.
