Archive for June, 2008
June 22, 2008 at 11:35 pm · Filed under Techie Stuff
I recently upgraded my phone and got a Blackberry 8310 Curve which is quite nice and didn’t cost me anything extra. There’s just a couple of things with it that I don’t like, and one thing that really pisses me off. Firstly, RIM (manufacturers of Blackberries) have very cunningly created their own protocol which email must use, and suprise….you have to buy it from them.
I have a very stable and useable email system of my own, which I can access through any of the commonly accepted protocols already available, IMAP, POP and webmail inclusive. So why won’t my Blackberry access any of these? Because RIM want to sell more copies of their Blackberry Enterprise Server.
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June 16, 2008 at 11:50 pm · Filed under My Life, Techie Stuff
Yep I’ve got my flights and car booked, I’m all ready to go on a little holiday to Holland. Taz is frantically trying to find things that we can do, apparently there’s a bowling contest on so I’ll have to turn up and show my terrible ability. Also, the dates I’ve booked means I’ll be with Taz for her birthday so I’m really happy with that 
I hear there’s a disco of some sort on while I’m there too, I asked what sort: “A swimming disco”. Wow, thats a new one for me, so we get to pay extra to swim with coloured lights? Cool!
Anyway just a little update for my readers, nothing much interesting happening except I’m still working on the website for www.genestate.com. I’ve managed to overcome several obstacles with Ruby on Rails that I was struggling with, but I’ve still got to make a system that handles reminders and records of monthly payments.
I’ll post again in a few days, seems like there’s more happening these days
June 13, 2008 at 10:08 pm · Filed under My Life, Techie Stuff
I know, I know, I haven’t been blogging much recently. I just haven’t felt like writing much. Don’t get wrong, things are going well, very well in fact. I’ve got the the smoking kicked, I’m getting ready to go back to university in September and I’m arranging to go to Holland to visit Taz.
I’ve got several projects I’m working on, you might have noticed that this blog has now moved domains. I thought I should get a domain for my personal stuff and one for the potentially commercial projects I’m involved with. This blog will be staying here and mattharrison.org will be new home from now on.
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