After a slightly ropey prototype, I’ve put together a proper SMS message page template for Wordpress. It uses the PHP5 Soap client to send the messages via AQL’s SMS Soap service.
To stop broken scripts from spamming me, you have to complete a captcha. You also need to change the default message or it won’t let you send it.
We went to Paris last week to visit friends. With all the great things to take pictures of, I thought I’d try my hand at some fake tilt shift photography. It’s a photographic technique that results in pictures that look kind of like photos of little scale models.
I took this picture of the square on the opposite side of the river from the Eiffel tower (click the image for a larger version):
I’ll do some more later on, I think it’s pretty good for a first attempt though!
Microcosmos.co.uk was an SGI fan site I used to run a couple of years back. Unfortunately, I let the domain expire because I was too damn busy to renew it.
This weekend, Ian Mapleson mentioned that people had asked him about it, so I thought I’d have a look at getting it up and running again.
Sadly, some no good squatter has registered the domain, but I’ve temporarily got it up and running on my new server at microcosmos.jamesholden.net. So, it’s back from the void - enjoy!
Yesterday I drove to Edinburgh and back. Now we’ve pretty much got to the end of deciding where things are going in the new house, it turned out that there wasn’t really room for my SGI Challenge L machine any more, so I took it up to live out the rest of it’s days with Ian Mapleson, of the SGI Depot.
Given that the thing weighs just short of 100kg, it was quite a struggle getting it into the car, but once it was strapped down, it was a pretty uneventful drive really.
I’ve chatted with Ian via email quite a bit in the past, and he’s very well known in the SGI community, but I’d never visited him before. His house up in Edinburgh is completely stacked with all things SGI, from the Challenge XL in the garage, to the Octanes in the bedroom, right through to the Fuels in the lounge. It think he’s got around 150+ machines there in various states.
The Challenge L took it’s place in the garage along side it’s big brothers, the Challenge XL and Onyx.
Well, it’s official - I’m leaving Plusnet for a new job in Leeds. I’ll be very sad to go because PlusNet is a most excellent place to work. It’s been a privilege to work with such a talented bunch of people in just about the only broadband ISP in the market that actually has a clue about what they’re doing and where they’re going.
There’s going to be a really rough ride for DSL providers in the next 18 months and I’m confident that Plusnet will not only be one of the survivors, but will take their place alongside the Tier 1s in terms of the range of services they will offer.
The new job is much closer to home, so I’ll be able to spend more time doing things other than sitting in the car on the motorway. Whilst I’ll be sad to leave Plusnet, I’m looking forward to starting the new job - it’ll certainly be a challenge.
