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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Distant Waterway

I did the Far Canal in 1 hour 43 mins today - much improved and even saw me jog for about 20 paces. Fortunately only a few geese noticed.

S-Tronic - In Control?

Earlier this year, I broke twenty-three years of habit and bought a car, known as Herman. 
Why did I choose this car? Well the main driver, if you’ll pardon the pun, was the gearbox. Audi call it “S-tronic“, but it’s essentially a dual-clutch semi-automatic gearbox generally known as DSG with variants used in the Bugatti Veyron [...]

Pub Quiz

Went to a work-related pub quiz last night. Even though our team combined the event with extreme beer testing, we came second out of eleven teams.
These are the spoils of our success

SMS

Over the last few weeks I’ve found that I cannot send text messages from my iPhone (O2) to my wife’s Motorola RAZR (T-Mobile), and she cannot send messages back.
Of course, I assumed this is because the iPhone software is buggy and/or Mr Jobs doesn’t want us to use SMS or some other conspiracy theory.
Upgrading the [...]

Test post from new iphone app

There’s a new iPhone app for publishing to WordPress and here’s a test post.
http://iphone.wordpress.org/
edit: it can do pics to.

Far canal

Yesterday I forwent Hermanning and went for a walk instead. About six and a half miles (varies depending on whether you believe the iPhone, Google Maps or Google Earth), and for me and my size, that’s quite far.
We have some nice waterways around where I live - the Regents Canal, Limehouse Cut, Lee Navigation and [...]

App Store Problems

Sorry, another iPhone related post
Anyways, I’ve spotted a bit of a flaw in the iPhone App Store.
The App Store is the only way you can legally develop and distribute apps for the iPhone and you have to publish them via Apple. This introduces a huge amount of convenience, but you also lose a [...]

First thoughts on iPhone 2.0

So I don’t have a new iPhone 3G, but I do (finally) have the 2.0 software, so the only difference between my iPhone and the new one is 3G and GPS.
Getting the 2.0 software was a little problematic. It wasn’t available until late on Friday evening, and the re-blast process was quite painful. Half way [...]

New iPhone Day

Today is the day the iPhone 3G is launched, although I won’t be getting one.
However, a few will. At least one person I know at work managed to get an online order in and is waiting for DHL at home this morning.
Others I know will be camping out outside O2 or Carphone Whorehouse shops at [...]

iPhone 3G

Much has been reported about the debacle that is the iPhone 3G release, and I too have been a victim.
I received a text message from O2 at 08.09 on the 7th telling me the website to let me upgrade was open from 08.00. Of course by that time it was completely hosed, so I tried [...]