Bigpond’s email problems appear to be over for the moment. However, I still needed to call up Bigpond Technical Support to get them to remove a garbled e-mail message from my mail queue. There was like half an e-mail or something in my mail queue which didn’t want to be downloaded and was causing I/O errors for both my POP client and Telstra’s webmail interface. It prevented me from downloading any messages via POP. It was obviously a problem caused by all the work they’ve had to do because of the huge increase in mail volume going through their servers. Anyway it’s all fixed now, and I can finally access my Bigpond mail. It’s the first time since October 18!
I changed my mind about Vodafone ‘no plans’. I’ve gone with Virgin Mobile instead. It means you have to pre-pay, but the rates are great and you get ages to use up all your credits. Depending upon the value of the recharge you get either 180 or 365 days to use your credits. On Vodafone’s ‘red SIM’ you only get 30 days to use your credits unless you choose the ‘365 option’ which gives you a year. However, if you choose that option then you can say goodbye to all the cheaper rates. So I’ve finally had a good play around with my new phone (most of the functions aren’t available until you stick a SIM card in). I love it! It has a voice dialling option that allows you to assign a ‘voice print’ to an address book entry. Then when you want to call that number you just repeat the ‘voice print’. So I can say something like Mum and Dad
and it will dial Mum and Dad’s number. Pretty cool, huh? So, as you can imagine, I haven’t got too much work done today. :-/ The novelty of my new toy will wear off soon, I’m sure.
Speaking of work, I need to rewrite bits of the paper that was rejected from MDM. That’s the coolest paper I’ve written, so trust it to be the one that got rejected! Now that I’ve progressed a little further in my work since writing that paper, there’s lots of ways I can make it less philosophical and a bit more design oriented. Since I don’t have any Spanish lesson tonight, I can be working on my paper instead. Maybe. :-P
