Friday, 16 April 2010

Will it fly?

Well as i'm sure you're aware there is currently a huge volcanic ash cloud floting over UK/Europen airspace, i'm keeping my eyes on National Air Traffic Service and Flightstats.co.uk for updates on flights.

To keep my spirits high whilst wondering if i'm actually gonna get to fly tomorrow morning I've been amazed by some of the images taken of the cloud and this scotish guy :D

Thursday, 15 April 2010

Finally got the phone to Email, Vodafone Smtp servers.

It's only been 6+ months worth of trying every combination of Smtp servers, ports, authentications, encryptions and even different wap/gprs connections from servage.net, Gmail , Yahoo! mail and even Vodafone uk themselves, but judging the last post (sent form phone) I've finally got my W995 on Vodafone uk to send Emails!

Vodafone being the 3rd largest operator in the UK still arn't trusted by 3rd party SMTP servers for sending of emails. I've been able to receive pop3 emails from my account with
http://www.servage.net/ from the begining but have never been able to send mails using there SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server smtp1.servage.net. This hasn't really bothered me until I entered the world of mobile blogging and found out that my W995s blogger aplication sends expensive MMS messages rather than Emails over my free GPRS.
Long story short, I found out that to send Emails from ANY vodafone device (click here for iPhone) you have to register for yet another email account at
Vodafone 360 account and use there smtp server smtp.360.com.

In brief for anyone with the same problems and miraculously stumbles accross my blog.

Register for an account at
Vodafone 360

Use SMTP server: smtp.360.com

SMTP authentication: Enabled

User name: User name for account at
Vodafone 360

Password: Password for account at
Vodafone 360

Encryption: SSL

Port: 465

Thats what works for me, Hope it works for you.

Monday, 5 April 2010

Me vs ford focus bootlid


What happens when your not paying attention whilst unloading the car after 6+ hours on the road and an epic weekend biking.

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Cotic at the top of wansfell pike


Finally here, after an hour of scrambeling up from troutbeck. Will the decent be worth it? Call 911 to find out :)

It's Deffinatly a walkers FOOTpath, large rock steps with tight turns and not much thinking time in between. On a plus side we found the correct decent into Ambleside, a bridleway that runs from Troutbeck past Jenkin Crag and into ambleside neer Hayes garden center. You live, you learn, you fall off specularly infront of walkers...

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Wish me lucky


Back drops ahoy

The 8th stane?


Sunny set off :)

Rosetta camp site, Peebles


We're here and its sunny, so far.