I have finally got my 3 Mobile w850i back after nearly a month of waiting (3 days short to be exact) which is extremely poor service considering I am on a £35 a month contract and wasn't allowed a replacement phone for the duration of the repair. The nice men/women at the repair centre also decided they would delete all my messages, photos, contacts, music, videos most of which had been paid for and had no way of making a backup.
Fortunately I have the iPhone to keep me in contact with the world but it does have it's downside. The problem is with it checking my emails every 15 minutes I also feel the urge and need to reply to them even if it's late at night. I am going to have to discipline myself into not answering emails after a certain time otherwise it's going to take hold of me and become another facebook addiction.
I have been at nzime for the past 3 days doing coding work whilst Darren is on jury duty. Also winding Anna up with the remote control helicopters and Airzooka, that surprisingly has a huge range (In excess of 10 metres).
Yesterday I decided to reinstall the BTHomeHub firmware to 6.2.6B and it seems to be running stable at the moment. I will just need to see if it automatically updates to 6.2.6E and doesn't break in the process, as I am in no mood to spend a hour on the phone to BT again.
I phoned my landlord today and had a go at them for leaving my room unlocked and also breaching their contract by not giving us 24 hours notice before showing people round the house. They apologised to me a lot and ensured me my room wouldn't be left unlocked again that they would phone me to arrange any viewings of the property.
All in all today has been a productive day. I am now going to put American Pie Beta House in the laptop and relax with a cup of tea.
Today is apparently the most
depressing day of the year according to the TV, radio and internet. Some
boffins in coats came up with an equation that worked out that everyone will be
depressed today due to a number of factors smashing into each other.
For me it has pretty much lived up to its name. The day was fine apart from the
awful weather but after getting home I got a message from one of my house mates
saying the landlord has been round today to show some potential tenants round
for when we move out. To my knowledge at the moment none of us in the house had
been given the mandatory 24 hours notice. They also unlocked and went in my
room without permission only then to proceed to leave it unlocked with the
light on.
This leaves me with a room with no insurance due to it being insecure and
voiding my policy. I phoned Unicom tonight and got them to send someone over to
lock it but it is besides the point I shouldn't have to worry about the
security of my stuff that is left in a locked room because some idiot is
unable to leave things how they found them. I well worded phone conversation
will be required tomorrow to ensure it doesn't happen again.
My second rant for today is down to BT and their poor excuse for a
router!
The BT Home Hub the pride and job of BT Internet. If you type in them 3 words
into Google you will get a few weeks worth of reading on how pathetic this
device is. The BT Home Hub is a piece of hardware made by Speedtouch (Despite
what I was told when I asked the sales representative) and then programmed by
some under trained monkeys at BT.
They can't even seem to be able to allow an iPhone onto their openzone/fon
wireless community because it's too much of a challenge to write a simple bit
of code that redirects a DNS request from an external source to a login page
which creates a cookie. The iPhone works with pretty much every website I have
been on apart from some pathetic JAVA application based websites such as universities
e-learning systems... I'm still yet to find what the JAVA application is
required for I could have written the whole thing in PHP and even used a bit of
JavaScript to make it wiz and bang a bit.
Basically if you’re going to get a router get one off a company that actually
knows what their doing like Linksys (Cisco) or Netgear.
Tomorrow is another working day with a website to copy from the development
server to the live server and another website visual to code into a working
HTML/CSS template. I may even be lucky enough to have another day of solving
problems caused by IT companies and email spam filters that block everything
that isn't spam.
I got an email yesterday asking if I was available to go back to Nottingham next week to work in house for nzime as Darren has been given the one thing most people/employers dead... Jury duty. I am going to be back for about a week. This means a week without the iMac and on my laptop which is close to torture. Luckily I have the internet when I am back this time if the BTHomeHub isn't broken like the last one I had to send back.
Yesterday I spent from 5pm lying on my bed with macrumorslive open reading the live feed from the macworldexpo with the release of the MacBook Air, Time capsule, iTunes movie rentals and most concerning me 1.1.3 firmware for the iPhone. After the conference I spent the next hour with my iPhone docked checking for updates until it finally went live and installed my firmware update.
My iPhone is now running 1.1.3 and I am a very happy customer. Mass texts works brilliant, locate me even though a little inaccurate works great and bookmarks to the home screen is a really useful feature. Well Facebook is now bookmarked onto my screen I am sure I will find a few other things to drop onto the home screen.
I'm now going to watch the macworldexpo conference now it's online to watch.