Diary: April 2006

Working Away In Kent

I'm still in Kent after my Gran's 100th birthday last week, and I've had a few days between meetings. That's given me time to start on my new framework, and I've been working on the JavaScript libraries - they're the most important thing for potential users of the system, so as long as I've got the UI finished the rest can follow when there's time.

The first three libraries are done, which leaves four to go. If nothing unplanned and urgent comes along, I should be able to start posting them some time ...

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The Great Mobile Phone Adventure

First, a little history. Many years ago, I had a series of very large mobile phone bills. At the time I was on the legendary Orange Everyday 50 tariff - 50 free minutes every day? Nice. However, I was living in uni accomodation with no landline to use, so I was regularly overrunning the 50 minutes, as well as making cross-provider calls and sending lots of text messages. A change was in order.

I looked around, and settled on upgrading my orange contract to a new one. They were only too happy to do that - ED50 was bleeding them dry, and ...

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