I have been trying to get GPRS working somewhere in the South Pacific… The results are about what I would expect for a monopoly telco. Unfortunately that is. Nothing would surprise me. We could not get the tracker to work, so we asked if ports are blocked. And they said the ports had been unblocked for a few months.
Then I grab some screendumps from here in Oz, and send them to my contact who sends them through… And they check things. No, those ports are blocked. We though you were someone else. You need to have those ports specifically unblocked. Eh. Why would you do that for? Oh… Colonial monopoly carrier. The customer does not have any rights to do anything unless we say it is OK. Oh, I forgot.
Sometimes I just find dealing with such organisations so demoralizing. There is no reason for things to be like that – they just cause those of us that have to do things out of the ordanary lots of pain and suffering – as one of my friends loves to say.
I bought the new Natalie Imbrulia album yesterday. It was quite good. I have only listened to it once, but it will definitely be on the list of things to listen to a few times before being exiled to the depths of Random Play.