Geek level: Critical
I was astonished to learn that my P1i has had 3 firmware updates since I bought it, and it’s only because of o2’s over-protective tendencies that I haven’t been receiving them. After emancipating myself I backed up my phone data and off I went. New firmware is much faster, Opera Mini is wicked awesome, I have a much prettier un-o2-ofied theme, access to future firmware upgrades and all is well with the world.
So I go to move my contacts back over from my computer. Ho Hum, oh look it’s failed, repeatedly, and I’ve finally given up on SE PC Suite. It’s been a long and frustrating journey, starting out with the P800 version. It’s buggy, crashes a lot, has multiple components that confuse me and is just bad in many different and stupid ways. So having given up on it, I did what any self respecting geek would do, which is overkill.
I set up a SBS 2003 server so I can use my phone’s shiny new ActiveSync support to sync my contacts, emails, RSS feeds, notes, calenders and all that jazz. This is much better than what I had before which was a pidge-podge. Before my desktop, phone and laptop, would sync separately with my multiple email accounts (which is a nightmare) and would sync with each other for everything else. Many a time items have been lost, overwritten and corrupted. Now all of my devices have a common source and all is well with the world once again. I even have web access to it.
I’m considering whether to move my computers into the domain (which I named lolCorp) and have it managed by the server (which I named lolEnforcer). There’s no REAL reason to, i.e. I’ve not yet found a reason apart from its impressive (in some circles) to run your home network on a domain.
Also since the mangoSix internal server gave up last week (it’s CPU temp would constantly rise when it was booted up until it reached 95C, where it would shutdown instantaneously) I’m considering whether to move it over to the SBS server. Moving over the configuration wouldn’t be a problem, just the repository history).
I leave you with a picture of my new workspace after The Great Move of Last Week (I moved from the box room to the lovely newly converted garage):
Righteous Rick Roll
A righteous rick roll is one where a rick roll is wholly and utterly deserved.
Case in point:
I was just called by an automated service asking whether I’d like to look into new government legislation that can reduce my debts. I was highly interested in whether I could get out of that £1.80 I owe Barnaby, so I dutifully pressed 5 to talk to an adviser. Somewhere between me being on hold (for, admittedly, a very short time :p ) I realised that I may be being scammed, so I opened up Rick Astley’s behemoth of a song and played it. They stayed on the line for 10 seconds or so, before putting me back on hold!
Tate
Well I was dragged off to Tate Modern yesterday, where I spent spent 3.03% of my time actually being interested. So what did I see in that 3.03%?
I won’t interpret the works; if there’s a subject which is more up its own ass than Art Critique, I will criticise it and will adjust my previous statement. I was going to post about the best bits of Tate Bull**** but my laziness and the overwhelming amount of it stopped me.
Ishi’s Light
by Anish Kapoor
Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue
by Rivane Neuenschwander
This was an awesome cool video. Here’s a shortened, EXTREMELY bad quality version:
The video doesn’t do it justice at all.
Inflammatory Essays
by Jenny Holzer
You can read what the tiles actually say here.
Oh and here’s me rocking out at Tate Level 1:
Ok I can’t actually do this without pointing out an ickle bit of fæces:
This big-ass crack has been there for the last year at Tate, they were filling it in whilst I was there:
What did Tate have to say for themselves?
In breaking open the floor of the museum, Salcedo is exposing a fracture in modernity itself. Her work encourages us to confront uncomfortable truths about our history and about ourselves with absolute candidness, and without self-deception.
BRAP! CSS!
I’m not someone who’s usually into gangsta’ rap, however this video has a very important message. It could save your life and your sanity.