...then the VUW grants system must be trying very hard to rotate in the opposite direction. I've spent a reasonable amount of today talking to various people and have come to the conclusion that administrative staff at the school offices are your best bet if you want to achieve anything.

Well. Turned my dead R520m on today. And it worked! If it wasn't so amazingly unstable, I could use it as a GSM modem! Or even as a phone!

Yesterday, after four weeks of surface shipping (which wouldn't be so bad, if DigitNetworks could actually get stuff out the door in a reasonable amount of time), a whole load of VoIP junk arrived: two BudgeTone 101 VoIP phones, three X100P-compatible cards, and an SPA-200 FXS-to-ethernet interface. They're not all for me, but the stuff I have left over after dragging one of the BudgeTones and an X100P into VUW for Patrick to pick up is enough to play with for the time being. Now to get Asterisk working...

Well, I've installed blogging software before and then never used it. Hopefully, this time will be different. I've put aside my issues with PHP and MySQL, realising that I simply don't have time to write my own blogging software, and installed WordPress. So it'd better work :-)