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Mobile Phone Upgrade

24 February 2013Daily LifeApple, Benefit From, Blackberry, Burberry Hat, Choices, Encryption, First Option, Galaxy, Google, Iphone, Joke, Line Provider, Lot, Mobile Phone, O2, Option Windows, Options, Phone Contract, Samsung, Saving Money, Telephone Line, TextsStephen Brennan

This week it was time to upgrade my phone contract as a data allowance of 10MB a month was a joke with the current BT contract!

The first decision was easy iPhone or not, well not for me thanks, I’ve used loads of Apple stuff over the years but my IT work started around the same time as Apple and while their stuff looks cool I still avoid them. Going iPhone the choices would have been so easy a 4 or a 5 but rejecting Apple opens up a lot of options.

First option Windows or not, well definitely not thanks, Bill’s company have caused me enough wasted time over the years. Blackberry, no thanks I don’t send the type of texts that benefit from encryption and I don’t wear a Burberry hat. Well it looks like it’s going to be Android then, well Google sadly already know more about me than my mother does and pretty much everything is already synced with them, guess it will be a Samsung Galaxy then 500 minutes, 5,000 texts and 1GB of data a month should do nicely and the phone is free, I’m still on O2 but no longer with BT and I’m saving money, happy for now.

Hopefully the fibre optic broadband upgrade will also go smoothly next week followed by the change of telephone line provider a little later.

A busy few weeks

21 April 2008Daily Life, Posts with ImagesBrother Reuben, Cardiff, Christmas, Commercial Photography, Kidney Transplant, Lot, Personal Injury, Photograph, Photographs, Roath Park, Rose, Sally, Spare Time, Wedding Day, Wedding SeasonStephen Brennan

I’ve been very busy recently with quite a lot of commercial photography and personal injury assignments. There’s also been quite a lot of work to complete with the various courses I’m studying which has left very little spare time, luckily the courses come to an end before the busy wedding season.

Yesterday I went to Roath Park in Cardiff to take some photographs of Adam and Sally who are getting married next month. Adam and Sally are having a signing frame at their wedding and wanted a photograph of the two of them for the frame which will be replaced after the wedding with a photograph of them taken on the wedding day.

This is the image they’ve selected for their signing frame.

Adam and Sally

A windy Wednesday

13 December 2006Daily LifeConfiguration Software, Home Hub, Hospital Today, Lot, Naff, Software CdStephen Brennan

My BT Home Hub arrived yesterday, it’s a pretty naff looking device that is quite flimsy, the web based configuration software is not at all user friendly. The hub phone works very well though. One important thing with configuring the home hub is to locate the software CD and ensure it doesn’t go anywhere near the pc as all it does is load rather a lot of unnecessary software – fortunately I was aware of this before my hub arrived. In typical BT style the order tracking details on their web site shows that my hub is due to be despatched tomorrow for delivery the following day. Quite a few set up issues with the BT Home Hub mainly involving Windows networking. I think it’s all working at the moment.

Rachel was discharged from hospital today. 🙂

A damp Saturday

25 November 2006Daily LifeFamily Tree, Glamorgan, Lot, Reuben, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Samantha, Time Today, Wedding AlbumsStephen Brennan

I received my admissions letter from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, I’m going in for further tests next week with surgery scheduled for the following week. 🙁

I spent a lot of time today making up wedding albums, hoping to finish everything tomorrow.

A hot Tuesday

25 July 2006Daily LifeAdobe Lightroom Beta, Dining Room, Holes, Hot Tuesday, Lot, PaintingStephen Brennan

Filled a number of holes in the dining room wall in preparation for painting. I spent a little more time trying out the Adobe Lightroom beta, I must say I really like the application, just hope that Adobe can make it run a lot faster when the live version is released.

A very warm Saturday

15 July 2006Daily LifeConservatory, Fence Panels, Grass, Lot, ShedStephen Brennan

I spent most of the day dismantling the old shed, it’s now in the skip. The top layer of the floor has been laid in the new conservatory, it will take three days to dry.

A very warm Friday

14 July 2006Daily LifeCousin Phil, Fence Posts, Lot, Shed, Time TodayStephen Brennan

My cousin Phil delivered the skip this morning so a lot of time today spent loading it up with the old fence posts and panels. Cleared out the old shed, looking forward to dismantling it tomorrow which won’t be easy.

A wet Saturday

8 July 2006Daily Life, Posts with ImagesConservatory, Lot, Photo, Plastering, Rain, ReubenStephen Brennan

A lot of rain today!

The conservatory walls were plastered today, just the floor, final fitting and decorating to go. Here’s a photo of Stuart plastering the walls.

Stuart

Here’s a photo of Claire visiting the Dan-Yr-Ogof Showcaves today.

Claire

A milder Monday

9 January 2006Daily LifeLot, Rest Of The DayStephen Brennan

A trip to the bank this morning. Quite a lot of web site updating managed to take up the rest of the day. 🙁

A cold Saturday

7 January 2006Daily LifeCold Evening, Cold Saturday, Lot, Quiet Day, Reuben, SamanthaStephen Brennan

A fairly quiet day doing a few more updates to my web site.Â A very cold evening with quite a lot of ice on the car.

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