Author: Splinter

I am a eBusiness Solution Architect working for a very large corporation. I have a wife and two kids that I love very much. I love gadgets, cars and my bike.
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New Phone with Bluetooth

Short review of my new Sony Ericsson T68i

I bought this phone on a plan when my old trusty Motorola failed on me.

I was looking for a phone that had a few more “useful” features. I did not need a FM radio as my MP3 player works fine. I did not need a camera as my Fuji FinePix 2800 is wonderful. What I did need was a cut down organiser.

As anyone who knows me will say, I am not the most organised person in the world. I forget names, dates, birthdays, meetings etc. So when I saw that this little phone was on a special plan, and it had reasonable alarm, appointment and contact management features I was impressed.

Then I found the Bluetooth!!! and I had to buy an adapter for my work laptop (much to the frustration of my lovely wife). Well what a God send! This was great, all my outlook and Notes contacts and appointments synchronised with my phone. Alarms 5-15 minutes before the time, all the contact details I could wish for.

However not all is good, getting the Bluetooth adapter working was a chore. Eventually after scouring the web I found that if I loaded the TDK drivers (no matter the brand of my adapter) things went well. I am still to learn how to get my laptop to NOT advertise itself as a headset though. Now that had me stumped for several hours… no matter what I did I could not talk on my phone if I was near my laptop. 🙂

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Web Standards

As you may have noticed this site is created with the new XHTML and CSS standards. This is because I believe that all sites should follow the standards.

This does not mean I am against enhanced tags, plugins or applets. Just that I believe these should enhance the users experience, not be the only means of interaction. It also does not mean that I insist that you use the most modern browser to navigate my site.

By using XHTML and CSS, every browser in existance (past and present) can display the information on this site. However to gain the formatting as I planned it your browser will have to support CSS1 at least. I have added some special features for users of newer browsers that support CSS2 and some yet to be released CSS3.

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Well here it is First Post

After many many days of hard procrastination… here it is. I hope you enjoy the experience.

I am not totally sure what is going to be on this site, what I might comment on or how often I will post but I promise to try not to bore those that come along.

About Me
I am a full time software developer for a major international company, with over 10 years direct involvement in the industry. I was raised in Roma, small country town in western Queensland (Australia). I spent my entire school years in Roma and got my first glimpse of computers in Year 11.

I spent some time working in the Romavilla Winery before taking up a job in the spare parts section of the local Ford dealership.

I then got an apprentiship with Telstra Australia’s largest telecomunications company as an apprentice technician. I spent four years in a lovely little town called Barcaldine finishing my apprentiship and studying for a degree in computing via distance education. Part way through these studies I landed a position in Brisbane writing small custom applications for one of Telstra’s business units.

Anyhow enough he hears the people cry! I will post up more details about myself and my history as things progress.