One of the first things I tried to do when I received my new phone was to add the contacts from my address book and put them on the phone. However, when I tried to do this iSync complained that the device wasn’t compatible and it wasn’t going to sync my address book with the phone. Sure enough, my phone wasn’t on the list of compatible devices. I could have waited until Apple released a new version of iSync that supported my phone but who knows when that could be and I certainly wasn’t going to add my contacts by hand – too many of them.

Thankfully a solution does exist: a phone plugin you can find at mobile.feisar.com. It costs 1.49 GBP but it works fine and now I can sync my contacts, calendar events etc so it’s well worth it.

I came across Feisar via this blog post.

I received my new mobile phone this morning: the Sony Ericsson K800i. Looks pretty good and it’s got loads of features. I got it from T-Mobile. So far I am pretty impressed with their service: I only ordered the phone online last night at around 7pm and it arrived at 7.30am this morning. They even threw in a 256 MB memory card for the phone for free. Now that’s what’s I call customer service!

I opted for their Web ‘n Walk package so now I’ll be able to check my email and surf the web on my phone. Needless to say once the phone has charged you can probably guess what I’ll be doing for the rest of the day!

[Update: I just cancelled my contract with O2. They were surprising helpful although they did put me through to somebody who spent about 10 minutes trying to make me stay with them. That was to be expected I guess. I am keeping my existing number so if you need to call me you should be able to still get through to me on it.]

A few weeks ago I posted something about a jockey headbutting his horse. I also mentioned that there was a video of the incident on the BBC website but I couldn’t find a URL for it.

Anyway, I sent an email to the BBC explaining my dilemma and asked how I could link to a particular piece of video footage. To my surprise I received a response from the BBC this morning. Here’s an extract of the relevant bit:

Unfortunately we are unable to provide direct links to pieces of audio and video on the BBC Sport website. Instead we would suggest you link to our AV Search result page for Paul O’Neill:
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=paul+o%27neill&scope
=all&edition=d&tab=av&recipe=all

So there you go: if you want to link to a piece of audio/video on the BBC website, point your users to the search results page.

Thanks BBC.

And check out the clip: it’s quite amusing; well, I thought so but then I would!

I thought this would be a fun thing to do so I wrote a list of random facts about myself that you may or may not know. It’s quite possible that there are even some things you never wanted to know! I’ll let you be the judge.