Samsung Omnia

After a two month wait (negotiating with phone companies) I have now got my Samsung Omnia, lovely phone but so far two things wrong:

  1. Screen goes blank and phone appears dead, but is still alive! Seems others have the same problem, my research obviously wasn’t good enough.
    Modaco blank-screen-of-death
    With  this fault it might have to go back as I can’t tell who is calling when it has gone off, stopping me prioritizing client work.
  2. Microsoft have made the remote desktop client optional for phone vendors, guess what Samsung have missed it out as well. There are downloads so this is not a show stopper.
    Downloaded an MS version from PDAPhone that works, thanks

Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton

My heartfelt congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and McLaren on winning the 2008 Formula One World Drivers Championship , although not sure my nerves really with stood the last few laps!

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(picture clipped from excellent www.itv-f1.com website coverage, long may it continue, the BBC will have to work very hard to meet the challenge in 2009).

Full story on the excellent blog http://blogf1.co.uk/ or hear all about it at http://sidepodcast.com

Commiserations to Felipe Massa, I shudder to think what he went through after celebrating for 15 seconds!

Congratulations to Ferrari on winning the Constructors title.

Re: Why Blogger Is No Good For Business Blogging

In a post on Business Blog Consulting Krishna De of BizGrowthNews has written a very good article about why you should put a blog within your site, like this, rather than having the blog hosted on one of the many hosting platforms.

Graham Jones of http://www.grahamjones.co.uk slightly disagreed with Krishna and pointed to two videos he had made on www.changingblogger.com which showed you can make a blogger site look like part of your main website. This argument was shot to pieces by clicking the first comment on Graham’s site in that you went to the Blogger commenting platform well away from the hosting pages.

Platforms such as WordPress hosted on your own website with your own domain can be used to make a very presentable branded professional website, and with all the plugins available let you include a blog with comments, podcasts, videos and slideshows.

 

Paul M Tate

Disposal Issues it’s not just PC’s

Organisations have to be careful of how they dispose of any IT equipment, not just their PC’s and hard disks, anything with writeable flash memory that can store settings can be a security threat.

In this ITPro article, “Second-hand VPN leads to security breach at council” Kirklees Council were caught out by their disposal policy and a Cisco VPN device was bought on EBay for £1 which when turned on it logged into the council’s servers, giving access to the network as though they had plugged in a cable inside the data centre.

Kirklees council commented that there were “multiple layers of security” needed to access data, but this is a big first step of taking those layers down.

That factory reset switch is your friend.

icaew.com

As a member of the Institute’s member communications working group I would welcome your views on the revamped icaew.com website

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I believe it looks crisper and fresher, but can you use it better than before?

The problem used to be that there was so much information on there that you couldn’t see the wood for the trees.

Another criticism was about needing to know your ICAEW membership number and password for some pages and not others, has this changed for what you need?