Despod's photo and comment blog.: October 2008

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Address Change

I've finally gotten around to setting up a custom domain for this blog (I'll still be using blogger) . As and from now the blog is reachable at blog.despod.com - it was pure laziness which prevented me doing this before.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Welcome to the Cloud.

Here at home the main computer is my iMac - it holds our music, videos and photos. It's backed up to an external drive and also to amazon'S s3 servers using Jungledisk. This also holds all my email. As a gadget freak I also use netbooks and it's often a pain having to go to the iMac to check on historical mail etc. So today I moved to the Cloud. I signed up to Google Apps and it's now taking care of the email for my domain. It was a straightforward process with a slight hiccup when I discovered that I couldn't change my DNS settings on Digiweb. I resolved it by signing up to Dyndns for my DNS services and pointing the website to a specific Digiweb address and the MX records to Google Apps. A little bit of CNAME tweaking and the same address as previously used for webmail was redirected. Benefits for me ? One less backup. Greater search capabilities and access from anywhere using a decent interface. I've been trying out Evernote and OneNote for notetaking etc and I think I'll plop for evernote as it has better text recognition in images and the ability to access through a browser.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Drinks Industry to Government : "please help us"

I was shocked during the week to see the Alcohol lobby asking the Government to layoff alcohol in the Budget because consumption is lowering. We have a shocking high rate of alcohol consumption in this country. We are always being urged to reduce it and become more resonsible and yet we have a trade organsiation moaning about how it is a bad thing for the country to be drinking less. Almost a case of go out and drink for the sake of the country. And for the sake of the fat cats in the drinks industry.