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Date: 01 November 2002 13:44:00
Well, overcast, anyway. Which I could have found out from my mobile phone, without looking out the window. Just trying much-maligned WAP. I notice that there isn't an easy way of creating a bookmark from the current page, which suggests to me that the providers are quite happy that you should spend precious minutes online navigating from the homepage to whatever page is of interest to you.
Some time ago, an outfit who called themselves ioBox offered to send a regular text message containing the local weather forecast. I had it arriving first thing in the morning, which I found handy. Unfortunately, it seems that no-one else found it useful; they've discontinued the service.
Gnome asked if I had got the PalmTop working. As it happens, I was able to make that particular wiblog entry because Granny does, indeed, have Internet access. I did have some success using the Palm Top to collect email, although we couldn't get a signal from inside the cottage where we were staying, and it might have been a bit challenging to go outside (in the, almost inevitable, rain), and juggle the Palm Top and mobile phone. I did it once, by laying a newspaper on the car roof, and laying the phone there while I handled the Palm Top (which has to be sideways on to the phone). Then I left the newspaper on the car roof overnight. By the morning it was a bit soggy.
Browsing the web using the Palm Top and mobile phone hasn't been so successful. On one or two occasions when I've tried it, the web browser has crashed the Palm Top. I wasn't too keen for this to happen while I was away from a PC to synchronise it with, so I didn't try while on holiday. In general, it does seem to be possible to look at websites. I think that the problem with this particular page is that it is in PHP (if that is appropriate jargon) instead of HTML. Everything has to go through some kind of proxy, which maybe doesn't like presenting PHP pages.
Yesterday was Hallowe'en. We were expecting to be visited by hordes of children, tricking or treating. In the event, I don't think that there were many. In fact, I didn't see any, having been asked to purchase some essentials from the supermarket on my way home. So we now have a surplus of sweet things, which wife would prefer wasn't passed on to first and second born. My colleagues at work have nobly (and self-sacrificially) demolished most of the contents of a biscuit tin this moring.