I went down to Vodafone to pick up the SIM card. That was a bit of a painful experience. Their IT systems were running slowly thanks to RemoteDesktop being slow. Their phones were running with about a 10 second delay too aparently. Not what you want to hear I would guess – and it makes it hard to have conversations. ARGH. Anyway, after too long I got the SIM card from them.

I connected the PCMCIA card up and it worked as soon as I entered the Vodafone APN and installed the software. It could not have been easier. Well, slightly easier since it needed to upgrade the firmware in the modem but that is all. It worked really well. The only thing I need to set up now is a proxy for outgoing mail… Time to see how good Vodafone Support is…

My home internet is playing up – As far as I can tell it is only the WebProxy on my ISP that seems to have died. I can surf the internet by Logging into a Server in Albury and doing things from there. This is not really the right way to do things, but it does work. I have posted this Post from a computer in Albury… Fun…

I tried out the transmitter for the iPod. It will be going back. When I tried to use it I found that there are three radio stations on three of the channels, and on the remaining channel there are two stations in the far distance. This did mean that the unit will not actually work. So I went to The Warehouse on the way to Vodafone, and I picked up a Cassette adapter, and it works well. I finally have a use for the cassette player in my car – my car came with it and CD, and this is the first time I have used CD.