Author: sroot

  • Happy new year!

    Happy new year everyone! It may be apparent I’ve not been typing a lot lately. Well, I have, just not in the blog. Having caught up with work and other real life fun things I’m hoping to post several entries that are overdue. Before I do that, some suitable geek humour that had me in…

  • Brother Dave goes on a cycling holiday, we track his position live by GPS

    Brother Dave decided to go on a cycling holiday, from Oslo in Norway to Copenhagen in Sweden. His Nokia phone has built in GPS and with a little software from http://www.mapmytracks.com/ and a not inexpensive data contract with O2 (mostly needed so we can pester him with work email while he travels) we’re able to…

  • Gmail default contact for a friend with more than one email address

    This is so I don’t forget, it took me a while to not find the answer via google, guess the solution successfully, and then read the solution by chance while looking at something else. I use googlemail (actually, google apps but let’s not get pedantic). I have a friend with several email addresses, (work, other,…