Grot, blather, etc

Think I am coming down with the same cold that has Rachel laid up in bed. Urgh.

Meantime I am fed up with 'my' supposed gaming 'clan' and their
unwillingness to commit to anything. Social gaming is the only way to
go - anything else is a waste of (my) time.

So I have issued an ultimatum. Why should I fund the clans facilities
if they will not live up to any kind of commitment?

Seems fair to me. We shall see.

Treo a go-go

Some hiccups with syncing - after I installed the Canon 350D utilities I found I could not use the cable to sync - the Treo would fail to connect.

Now I have switched to Bluetooth - and wrestled with the BT settings - HotSync works as it should. Somewhat irritating but at least it all works now.

I also managed to get the GPRS Web & email to function. I set up my gmail account and all is well. Now I just need to be able to create blog entries here from my Treo and I will be a happy chap.

Treo 650

Took the plunge. With my phone contract coming up for renewal and as ever a serious lack of decent upgrade options I have decided to jump provider and go for this.

On Vodafone whose network coverage continues to expand.

Not that I have any loyalty to any of these providers - my experience with Cellnet/O2 showed that even if you had been with them for over a decade unless you were a high paying business user they really were not interested. So now I shop around every year.

Goodbye O2, hi Vodafone & Treo 650.

8GB USB (Carte Orange) based storage from LaCie - must have!

UK etailers are offering the 8GB device around the £100 mark. For 8GB? I am pleased I have waited before buying a larger USB storage device.

The LaCie site indicates an October availability date.

Blather

Seems the counter arguments are following a line I thought they would with regards to Firefox/Mozi etc. Nothing is ever quite what it seems - is it?

Meanwhile I am setting up a Web Calendar for my family so we can keep track of just what the hell is going on. Who wants to bet my techno-phobic wife will fail to use it? Nobody? Oh well.

My eyes are watering. Obviously I am spending too much time staring at a monitor at the moment. I took a break to start reading the Business Motivation Model and had a quick look for an OMG paper. Have you tried to find anything on their site?

I do hope their paid up members get a decent search facility - if the public one is anything to go by I would be asking for my money back. I didnt find the document I was looking for. Oh well.

Blather over for now. The ftp upload is done. Time to get installing.