Request from Jim (See This previous Post)

Does anyone out there know if you can use one of those gprs/3g USB modem dongles with an Ipod, and if so how?

If he could get it to work he could base himself in the pub and eschew the office altogether, which could only be a good thing for everyone ;-)

Hi all, it was my birthday the other day & my nearest & dearest bought me an HP mini note 2133. Linux version which comes with SUSE 10.

Then colleague X (call him Jim) came to work with an ssh client on his Ipod, so we had to do it.
The photo shows a user on the ipod logged into their account on the mini note.

I suspect this is far from the most compact client-server set up ever seen, but we think its cool.
(note to self, expire Jims account, this whole thing could just be a ploy to circumvent my security arrangements ;-)

I'll probably blog more about my frustration at not being able to install ubuntu without downgrading the firmware, my inability to downgrade same, and the pain of trying to get enlightenment DR16 working (themes don't render) in the fullness of time.

But lets end on a high note. Its very cool looking, even the mac fanboys in the office were impressed, the screen and keyboard are honestly useable, Gnome is friendly, having many viewports (using the cube, which I also like) is a great boon on a small device.

I just discovered that adding a "/label-name" to the end of the Gmail Atom URL (http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom) gives you a feed of the unread mail just for that label.

Just what I always wanted.

Up 'till now I didn't bother with the feed because the noise to signal ratio was off the scale, but
now I can have a feed of only the things which make it into my "@personal" label. (With this URL http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/@personal.)

Surprisingly I didn't find this documented anywhere.

Now if I can find a feed-reader for my phone I might, finally, be able to overcome the problem of having too much mail for my phone to handle. In the words of the Dead Kennedys Give me convenience or give me Death.

On the other hand I don't think I'll bother, I don't want to become as socially dysfunctional as a crackberry addict.

I just applied labels to all my posts, thinking that I could use them to select what is syndicated on planetapache, then I realised that posts from emails won't get any label, so I'll have to log-in and apply labels if I want that to work.

blogger, please can we have default labels for email/mobile posts?

The previous post was made from my phone, including picture. Cool huh?
It was way not as easy as it should've been :-(
Step one, send a mail to go@blogger.com from my gmail account and claim my blog.
Step two, send a mail from my phone to go@blogger
look for an smtp server to use, o2 or gmail? o2 doesn't seem to work.
what connection to use? try several pre-programmed ones, settle
on the one that actually finds the smtp server.
error "TLS/SSL can't recognize certificate"
Solution, install root certificates in phone. What! This is
getting a bit too far from the path of straighforwardness we should
expect in the 21st century, surely? Anyway, root certs duly found and
cable attached. Cable can;t be used because the certs are just copied
into the removable memory. Good job I have a blue tooth dongle,
bluetooth them across. It works. Try gmail. OMGWTF it works, I receive
a mail and send a mail.
New problem though, too much crap comes into my gmail account I
want to use a quiet account from my phone. So I try setting up mail
for killerbees.co.uk with my google apps which I set up the other day.
It gave me a whole "cyber presence" in minutes (well an hour or so)
which is great because I no longer bother to host my own domain and I
was wondering why I bothered to pay for it, anyway back to the story,
the thing I hadn't done was to create MX records for killerbees.co.uk
pointing at gmail's servers, so I tried that last night and...
easyspace wouldn't accept the gmail mx hostname, I know about the
trailing dot but that didn't work either so I raised a trouble ticket.
Woke up this morning to find that they'd done it by hand for me.
Thanks.
Now I just have to mail to go@blogger and claim it for my blog.
Thats what this post is.

Summary, repect to:

blogger - for go@blogger.com
google - for gmail smtp & google apps
sony ericsson - for the k750i having support for TLS in smtp & SSL in POP

Name and shame
sony ericsson - for not pre-installing root certs
02 for not setting their customers up with all this automatically.

Well here we go, straight from phone to blog ...

First step make sure I can blog by mail

- update - I guess that worked, now to try to send mail from my phone

I just found out that blogger now lets us use CNAME's to point to our blogs.
The sharp eyed geek amongst the fools who read this - yes john that *is* you ;-) - will have spotted that the URL is now blog.killerbees.co.uk. Next step see if I can get google apps to let me map www.killerbees.co.uk to a google pages page. You'll know it worked when the link no longer redirects you to my apache homepage

One small step for man, one giant leap for a neater life, and all that.