Anyway, I'm finally feeling human again after an epic first day here (up > 40 hours, on plane/bus/boat for 15 of those, then catch-up/party with my brother on the island) and liking the diving ( Read more... )

I'll be back from Ko Tau on the morning of the 10th of September. My phone will remain reachable for emergencies, and I'll get my email occasionally.

There are windsurfers, catamarans, and of course lots of sweet dive spots. *bounce**bounce**bounce*

This was initially a comment in response to a question of themink17's, but became somewhat longer than fits a comment so I've moved it here.

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... it's a simple phone OS plus a web browser and some Google services.

It lacks some pretty fundamental things you'd expect from a smartphone.

• Ability to browse and view local files on phone memory or SD card, eg open HTML files, PDFs, etc
• An IMAP client that can delete messages, mark them as read on the server, etc
• Any ability at all to support ( Read more... )

Why does NOBODY bother to support X.509 client certificates properly? They're a weak, poorly implemented afterthought in many systems if they're supported at all.

• Microsoft Windows: Perfect support, needs PKCS#12 (.p12) format. Most 3rd party apps (subversion, mozilla apps, etc) use own cert stores rather than the OS's for no good reason.
• Mac OS X: ( Read more... )

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"Yeah, I replaced your LCD as well, I wanted to do it just in case it was the problem not the LVDS cable, and anyway it had a few bright spots on it. This one is nicer."

... are two of my favourite things. I do, admittedly, have a great many "favourite" things.
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I've been playing with my pressure cooker. Having made a yummy chicken stock and turned it into fairly successful chicken and corn soup, I thought it was time to tackle something trickier.

Attempt one: wow, I don't often make things that bad. I didn't ( Read more... )

• User calls. "How do I make a PDF smaller to email it" ?
• Me: [talks user through PDF optimiser]
• User: it still doesn't work, it comes back to me.
• Me: Odd. Did you have a look at the file size?

Peter Thrush of ICANN recently commented that the Australian Internet Filter proposal is akin to the Maginot Line of WWII French fame. We all know how well that worked ( Read more... )