Ingoal.info wap-i-fied

Hehe…I’m such a geek :-)

Anyway…I was looking at ways to be able to check up on Ingoal.info when I’m on the road…so I added support for Wap. Successfully tested with my lovely Nokia 8310 and Firefox (with WMLBrowser 0.6.4)…

If you’re crazy enough, you can bookmark it in your mobile phone with the address http://www.ingoal.info/wp-wap.php :-)

Gallery anyone?

Yesterday I was in the hunt for a decent, easy to setup gallery system. After previous experience with the software Gallery used by a mate of mine (in version 1.4.3) I was going to give it a shot.

So I downloaded the package (version 1.4.4.pl2) and the german language pack. After reading through the basic setup procedure I was amazed how easy the setup is. After about 10 minutes I was ready to upload everything. The following setup when through without a problem and the gallery was up. Then it was time to play around a little and add the first pics.

As the gallery is meant to be private you won’t see any albums or pics without logging in – if you still wanna have a look at the layout I chose etc you can have a look here.

Gmail Filesystem?!

Are you one of the many beta testers of Google Mail (GMail)? Then you might have thought about what to do with all that GMail space (1GB). Richard Jones thought about it too and came up with the GMail Filesystem (GMail FS). You can read more about it on Richard Jones’ Homepage.

www.ingoal.info (update)

Hehe…everything seems to be good right and despite my worries I’ve already received the refund from pinchpenny, too – thumbs up.

If you find anything strange (errors, page not found, etc), please contact me. As I said: it could be that there a still some things I need to tweak…

www.ingoal.info (update)

After the unsatisying experience of hosting www.ingoal.info with pinchpenny and the related problems (namely that the domain was unreachable from many ip-ranges) if decided to exercise my right to cancel the hosting within the 14 day trial period. Whether or not I’ll see my money again and more important, when, is a different – I’ll keep you updated.

I switched to Total Choice Hosting which was recommended by many people. I was really surprised to find the account ready to go only hours after I placed my order (and due to the fact that I had already changed the nameservers I can already access Ingoal.info by name and not only by IP – hopefully you can already too :-)).

Still need to tweak a thing or two, but I’m really looking forward to running this domain with a reliable host with a responsive support staff in case I need them.

The new hosting package includes:

  • 450MB space :-)
  • unlimited MySQL tables
  • all the usual stuff (php, …)

…and with a price tag of 4$ per month (monthly payment option) I’m more than pleased…

Unsatisfying season opener (FCM II)

FCM II 1-1 Höpfigheim

After handing out an early goal (4th minute) it was a hard battle with one victim on our side. He was hit on the head during a header and had an immense bleeding. I drove him to the hospital where they had him stiched up. During that time we tied the score 1-1.

We had some other chances to score the winning goal, but failed. So it’s us in the midfield of the table…unsatisfying to say the least…

HP to release it’s own iPod (update)

Hehe…so all the anticipation and then this. HP just added the real, original iPod to it’s products (see HP.com)

Ah well, as I already said in the first post on this topic: the only thing that HP could have done to the iPod would have been ruining the design, so it was a smart move to just take the perfectly designed one and add it to their lineup.

Not in squad on sunday! (FCM II)

Ouch…I didn’t anticipate that, but I guess it’s a logical decision due to my recent (and current) groin strain and the connected problems – especially if you’ve got a reservoir of 20 people ready to dress up (after all only 11 + 3 can play anyway).

I guess I will use the spare time (team meeting is always 1.5h prior to the game) for a little extra sleep and relaxing time – always gotta look on the bright side ;)

HP to release it’s own iPod

Reports state that Hewlett Packard is about to release it’s very own version of the iPod (sources say it will be presented today in Miami) . This HP iPod will be manufactured by Apple and it’s suppliers and is part of the “business alliance” between HP and Apple – Hewlett Packard ships it’s PCs with Apple’s iTunes preinstalled…

I’m really curious how this thing will look like as the reports stated it’s based on the iPod technology, but said nothing about the design. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I don’t think they can make it look better than the current iPod (so maybe all they can do is make it look worse, but we’ll see)…

Price madness PS2 / Xbox

Wow…Sony has just announced to drop the price of the PS2 console to 149 Euro. As always Microsoft announced to match that offer and drop the price of the Xbox to 149Euro in the following weeks.

Hmm, as I’m already the proud owner of an Xbox, I’m really considering buying a PS2 too…I think I’m going to evaluate the game market a little to find out how many different titles there are which would really interest me (my main interest in console games: sports games (EA Sports Live series kind of games, etc))…

Blog update

  • Eliminated four styles. Now it’s either WordPress-default or Mars Spirit. I will try to edit the Mars Spirit style and make it the default (and only) style soonish. Now all I need is a good header image and a nice colour-theme…
  • Added rewrite rules and permalink structure…now the archives etc can be reached via www.ingoal.info/archives/year/month/day – hopefully google will like that too and index all the pages :-)