Those whacky British pub names. I thought this is one of them, "Rat & Parrot",, but not really. Well, it is of course, but by design. turn's out it's a chain. In Bill Bryson's book, "Mother Tongue" he discusses the odd British pub names. It's funny. Never has a slightly cool "pint" tasted sooo good.

My new vodadfone/nokia mobile is working well for taking and sending photos. I've finally been able send little photos via email. Posting to a page should be a snap, except that as a prepay sub I'm seem to be somewhat of a second class citizen in the advanced feature area. I'm sure the truth is I've simply not spent the time to figure it out yet, but it was not quick just to use email.


Going to really have to pick up the pace here with working out. There is only one option for breakfast: The Full English. Good God man is that a lot of food. I suppose it fits into the Atkins Diet Plan . But watch out for dinner. I thought we were going out for "a bite", but just ordering fish and a salad resuulted in more carb calories that SuperSizing a McDonalds meal .

Well I'm not talking about Telecom (for a special reason that may end soon...) during this trip, I was struck during a drive through the country with the bunkers that held planes used during WWII. They covered them with grass so as to be invisible in the air. The ones we drove by were being used for model car racing.

No sooner did I get everything working that I went to and area with no broadband. However, there is dancing in the street...you can't have everything. Being in the UK I was expecting a little "war chalking",, but not here in Chippenham

OK...two down, one to go. Finally got blog#2 running on a sister site: the telecomportal blog. After many hours of changes, I finally did what I should have in the first place - ftp'd the whole directory onto the host server. The power of blogs is clearly enhanced with rss, as I've learned. I don't feel any more ignorant about this than I do about how to complete Halo in Legendary mode.

Well, I said two down and one to go. That brings up my new love - my powerbook (in the desk sweet spot...like buzz lightyear taking woddy's spot). It does almost everything well: music, photos, movies, desktop applications, wifi, bluetooth, writing to DVD/CD-R. My all time favorite...if only it could work on a 1XRTT network. But alas, no vendor has made a driver for the the PCMCIA cards that are used with the service. Verizon uses the Sierra card. After complaining to several people about this, I quickly got good news. first, a friend at QC told me that the new Sony/Ericsson phone would bluetooth to the mac and 1XRTT to the network...I just have to wait. then another friend sent me this link with a similar story. Now I just have to wait.

With a half a dozen PCs network in the home I was not really planning on adding another Mac (my wife the graphic artist would use nothing else). It was not a switch ala the famous Ellen Fiess, But I love the idea of home movies on DVD. Anybody who has suffered through watching somebody else's home movie nows the "just wait...the good part is coming up...hang on..I thought it was here...it's really funny. wait.." while the host madly fast forward's through the tape. Clearly the random access of DVD's solves that problem. But after buying Pinaccle software (and others) I was FRUSTRATED...I'm tired of going to message boards to get PC software to work. iLife worked right out of the box and did exactly what I wanted. For once a happy ending..to a chapter.

The next chapter is iBlog, which will be the third and final blog in the trilogy. Well, the blog will. The software may turn out to be something like Ranchero Software, which looks better.

Well, after spending untold HOURS with the sophisticated blogging tool, Radio Userland, I'm about to give up. It worked once, and then stopped.

End of rant. Here's the proof (with some errors) that it is possible.