Thankfully my boss told me to go home at lunchtime. I set out at just gone 1pm and arrived home at 3:30ish, compared to most I got off easy. It took the O.H. over five hours to drive back from Gloucester. Our office did not fare well, it was under a couple of feet of water for nearly 24 hours so currently I’m working from home.

Photos

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to take an photos myself but here are some relevant ones from the BBC website.

• The end of the road where I work
• I usually drive through here on my way to work

When I heard that Tadalists had been updated for the iPhone I wondered if it might work any better than the full version does on Mobile IE (currently it’s not nice to look at). So I changed my user agent to appoximate the iPhone.

Step 1

Download and install PHM Registry Edit on your PDA.

Step 2

Run PHM Registry Edit and navigate to the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/5.0/User Agent

Step 3

Make a note of your current settings. Mine were:

• Compatible: compatible
• Default: Mozilla/4.0
• Desc: Default (Windows CE)
• Platform: Windows CE
• UA-Language: JavaScript
• Version: MSIE 4.01
• Post platform: Xda Mini S; 240×320

Step 4

The iPhones user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

I changed my settings to:

• Default: Mozilla/5.0
• Compatible: iPhone
• Version: U; CPU like Mac OS X; en
• Platform: AppleWebKit/420+
• Post Platform: Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

Using these setting I was able to load the iPhone optimised Tadalists and no it didn’t work (I didn’t really think it would).

Useful stuff

You can check you user agent here as well as see a breakdown of the various bits and bobs of it.

I found a cool service called Plusmo that allows you to read your favourite blogs offline on a mobile device. You manage your content via the website using your computer and install a client on your PDA or mobile to download the content. The really nice feature is that you can import an OPML feed so if like me you use Bloglines importing your existing stuff couldn’t be easier.

At the beginning of the week I bid on an unlocked O2 XDA Mini S on ebay and won it. It replaces my slightly older than one year Palm that broke recently. I decided to get a device that I could use as both a mobile phone and a PDA. So far it’s working perfectly with the Missing Sync software to sync it to my mac and my Everyday 50 Orange sim card.