Tom Morris



2006.01.07

Right, so there was an administrative cockup on the GPRS thing. The £1 for 24 hours access wasn't actually put on, meaning I was charged at full rate for the whole day's worth of access. I phoned Orange, and they've refunded it all. For fellow GPRS-ers, if you are using the £1 for 24 hours deal, check your balance after having used GPRS for a few Kbytes (and check your balance, your texts to see whether it's worked). Otherwise you'll use it all day long and find you're £27 down on the deal. Orange people can check it by calling 453. Props to Orange for sorting it all out quickly - I called them up for free on 450 (options 1-4-1), and they sorted it all out within an hour. So, basically, today, I had a day of free Internet as a result of administrative cockup. Note to other businesses: this is how to solve complaints. Smile and a wink 2006-01-07T22:33:44ZUntitled entry permalink

Just been some sort of fire-related incident at the British Library. We were all turfed out on to the street for about half an hour. Which has certainly made things more interesting, to say the least. 2006-01-07T12:40:04ZUntitled entry permalink

Now in the British Library to research for an essay and lecture on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (just waiting for books from the stacks). The OPML Editor is serving it's task well here. I've got an outline for all my research notes, and I've got outlines from lecture notes and the like. Now, if there were a simple way to hook OPML together with LaTeX, that would be particularly useful. The snow has drifted off, and London is bathed in nothing but a murky greyness. 2006-01-07T10:50:36ZUntitled entry permalink

Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, has a blog. Rightly, the BBC have an RSS feed for this. 2006-01-07T09:50:40ZUntitled entry permalink

The other thing that is good about this GPRS is that it doesn't use up as much juice as wifi. It ticks away at just above normal usage, while wifi can shave quite a large chunk off of one's usage. 2006-01-07T09:45:09ZUntitled entry permalink

Snowing again and I've got Wanda Wisdom on the headphones. 2006-01-07T09:33:47ZUntitled entry permalink

It's surprisingly snappy to use GPRS on my laptop. Even Gmail works nicely, and I was thinking that would suck up bandwidth and wouldn't be snappy. Even tunnels don't pose a threat. You still remain connected when you get out the other side (of course, you can't transfer while in the tunnel, but you don't have to dial up again when you get out - long TTL, I expect). 2006-01-07T09:28:47ZUntitled entry permalink

How about a little post from the train? I heart flat-rate GPRS. 2006-01-07T09:18:43ZUntitled entry permalink

I really don't get why Joystiq have a "today in Joystiq" post. Did someone not tell these bright sparks that RSS means that I can see your stories of the day without you having to manually point me to them? Along with adverts, this is yet another annoyance in their feed which is just millimetres away from being unsubscribed. 2006-01-07T08:20:01ZUntitled entry permalink

Om Malik on the CES: "corporate egos on show". I haven't heard anything that's interested me yet, though I haven't actively sought it out. 2006-01-07T03:52:09ZUntitled entry permalink

Awful Plastic Surgery is a blog documenting celebrities who fuck up their surgery. Scary stuff. 2006-01-07T02:13:47ZUntitled entry permalink

 

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Tom Morris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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