The Temple of the Mighty Bague

A quote from today’s BBC News. “Gordon Brown has suggested people be less wasteful to help combat the rising cost of food caused by more and more crops being used for biofuel.”

Oh really. Are you sure you don’t mean “Gordon Brown has suggested people be less wasteful to help combat the rising cost of food caused by rampant greed in oil producing countries, immoral taxes but Labour governments, and expensive and unnecessary wars. And while we’re at it, we may as well smear alternative fuel sources.”?

Honestly - do they really think we’re so gullible?

They really are. It’s not normal for cats to sit like that. Anyway, this is Mewsly, one of two (the other is called Cornflakes) moggies who let us live with them. 

Mewsly, as you can see, is just not normal.

Our cats are mental

Originally uploaded by John Dow

Oh yes! I am off on my hols until a week on Monday! Splendid! Not going anywhere specific, but I want to at least get to Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling (cos Stirling is ACE and the safari park has munkys), as well as some day trips out and about. Linlithgow, natch. Also Beecraigs cos it’s foresty and full of grues.

Also, it’s my birthday tomorrow, when I shall be $unfeasiblyOld, so much celebration involving trifle will be had. FAB.

So I got a new phone, courtesy of my employer. They want to be able to contact me at all hours of the day and night and I need to be able to spring into action like a bagful of kangaroos and fix whatever it is they’ve broken in my absence. 

So, requirements are: pda functionality, 3G networking, unlimited net access, keyboard, etc. I eventually settled on a Vodafone 1615 with a bit of trepidation - it’s a windows smartphone and, well, me and windows don’t really get on. I’m not too bothered about it syncing with everything in the universe, although contacts would be nice. As it turns out, it won’t even sync contacts.

Unless, of course, I employ the services of Missing Sync. This is a lovely little bit of software which - well - basically syncs everything in the universe to a windows mobile device. It was suggested to me by a certain Mr J “I know everything about phones” Daniels, and it turns out he’s right. It’s ace. It’s a little buggy with some operations, but then all I really need is the ability to sync with AddressBook, so I don’t care about anything else.

As for the phone - well, it makes phonecalls, runs an SSH client, and has a web browser - that’s pretty much all I need, really.

Update deKay speaks the truth - SyncMate is infinitely better than Missing Sync. It doesn’t crash all the time, for a start.

This is certainly one way to find out what I’m up to.

Another might be to actually ask.