Gavin’s Digital Diner

I’ve always been vaguely uncomfortable with folksonomies. There is something about the concept that just doesn’t sit right with me. Every time I hear people wax on about them, I fidget in my seat; I feel kind of itchy and unsettled at the same time. Perhaps it’s my latent, [...]

Just a couple of updates to my original Blackberry Modem Mash:

After a few experiments on a few different machines, it does appear that you need both the Blackberry Device Manager and the Blackberry Desktop, and they both have to be running.
In a field test (I was in a hotel), it took both. It [...]

It’s a cold, windy Saturday so I decided to check out the rumor that one could blog directly from the new version of Word (Office 2007). Since I’ve been putting stuff up on the Digital Diner, I’ve discovered the following:

Typing these things online is a drag.
Cutting and pasting them from Word seems to [...]

I was recently doing some background research on the costs and affordability of using 3G for internet connectivity in South Africa.  Well, as these things tend to happen, that research got me thinking about similar options in the U.S. And, that reminded me that I’ve always meant to try using EDGE now that I have [...]