Hunter’s Home.co.uk

stormOriginally uploaded by hunterbuf

an amazingly lucky shot of the storm currently going on at the time of posting. I stopped after this as I won’t get another.

‘Tis the season for exams here in the U of K. As shown by my latest flickr photo I’ve already started. Can’t wait for them to be over.

I love my gadgets that much I thought it was time to move away from my MDA Compact III and get an iPhone. I had the MDA for 8 months and it is a great little phone based on WM5 or 6 (when I finally found the t-mobile ROM) and it had GPS built in which is great but I don’t drive so it’ll be sat at home until Sam and I go on a road trip.

I picked the iPhone up from a small o2 shop in Bristol on Saturday. After they confirmed the card in my wallet was ok to buy it with. I then proceeded to “undress” (thanks to a Mr Budd) my iPhone over my lunch break. I was then stuck having to work the rest of the afternoon before being able to head home and play.

As with a lot of iPhone owners I unlocked mine for use on t-mobile. It took about 5 minutes to unlock using ZiPhone, but I have since read some warnings about using it though I haven’t had any problems with 2.5 and 3.0 neither has a friend of mine.

I’m currently enjoying the iPhone, theway it does text messages is pretty neat and a lot better organised than my MDA was. Only thing I’m currently missing is MMS but hopefully there will be a solution soon.

2 days after upgrading my blog to 2.5 RC2 WordPress have released the full version of WordPress 2.5.

This is a total result of 6 months work which I hope to make as much use of as
possible.

Looks good and works as well if not better than 2.3!

As I’m trying to re-skin this blog I thought it might be worth upgrading it to 2.5 RC2 so my new style/skin/theme will work with new features and not require meet to remake it when 2.5’s final version is released.

I’ve still got to look in to all the pretty new features but there is plenty of time over this weekend to do so, so please stay tuned.

Or my usual troll through the WWW one of my loverly Google Alert emails pointed me towards a great blog post Microsoft’s Customer Service in reguards to the 360 repiars.

 Starting with a tragic tale and then a great goody bag they make it right. Nathanial was your average 360 gamer but the console itself was special, time had been spent on collecting signatures from many famous people linked to the console and its game, but as any good love story the console died. So off for repair….

 This console adorned with things representing very special memories held great sentimental value to Nathaniel as you can imagine. Not even taking into account that it had monetary value as well, it was simply a console that he adored. That is why shipping it off to the repair center was not the easiest choice to make. But between that and trying to repair it himself, it was the better option. Taking it apart would have voided the warranty so if his attempts at fixing it had been unsuccessful, he would have been screwed. Unfortunately he still got screwed, but he didn’t know that would happen at this point.

So after much moaning and complaining he finally got the 360 he deservered and more. Does this mean Microsoft will try and keep improving their customer service? or is it just that he got so much attention that they wanted to look good for this one case? Ever 360 gamer should get a random signature on their console and see what happens if it dies…..

After a long while of not doing anything to this place I have finally moved Hunter’s Home to my account which hosts everything else including WDC.

How hopefully I can get this place sorted out and looking good over the easter break. I have, for now removed the gallery. It was too much to hassle to move it from my old hosting account to this one copying over all the images etc. It’ll be replaced at somepoint. I may even use flickr or something instead providing I actually take lots of pictures.

Seems every time I update Wordpress through cPanel it brakes, again its done it and ruined a load of posts and the blogroll down the right. I’ve also lost the categories I can post in so for now I’m going to leave it until I move HH in a couple of weeks.

After a bit of quiet for a couple of months OpenCoffee is back, returning to the Watershed, Bristol this Thursday evening. Hopefully will see some of you there

After entering the world of Podcasts I’ve been looking for NFL podcasts, I covered the Rants & Raves and now I got myself a mention on Bang Cartoon Radio Hour thanks to the thread on LANarchy and a reply from McBain. I don’t even listen to it, until now.

So lets see what happens, sounds good. Just got to find the time to listen. By the way the Zen I mentioned is the Creative Zen VPlus.