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…But if they did, they wouldn’t be as good as iPhones.

So, 48 hours later and the “Activation and Porting Ordeal” is finally over. When I Activated my iPhone, O2 informed me it would take up to 5 business days to transfer my number (from o2 pay as you go) to my new iPhone Contract, but that they would provision me a temporary number, so I could get started playing with my iPhone straight away.. “Fair enough”, I thought.

A mere 16 hours later, I received an SMS from Facebook on my iPhone.. My number must have transfered. I checked, it had. Hurah!…. I thought.. A few minutes later, a “you have voicemail icon” appeared, but with no number in it. When I attempted to go to voicemail, my Visual Voicemail just plain refused to work. I hastily rang O2 (UK Based!) Tech Support, and was informed by the Apple Representative(!!!) that the O2 Network could not take the strain, and I should just wait until after the weekend. I rarely use voicemail, so I was not too bothered, although did feel somewhat put out. A few hours later I left the house, so naturally, got my iPhone out and hit “Safari”.
“Safari cannot open the web page because it cannot find the server”.. HMM. To the O2 Store! We tried to go the trafford centre on the way home, but we had no luck. Even hoping to park, on a Saturday, was foolish of us, so I rang O2 instead and we carried on our not so merry way.

After sounding puzzled, and sticking me on hold, the Apple Rep discovered that AT&T had encountered this problem also when porting AT&T numbers from AT&T to iPhone Accounts. The GPRS/Voicemail etc settings had not been setup. He told me a need to speak to O2, and put me through to them. I told the O2 woman what I wanted. Immediately her incompetence became evident. “You settings are automatically activated automatically”. Now, maybe if I had just asked for the features and not explained my whole situation, that would be a valid response, but I had told her everything. That it did work, that I’d spoke to Apple, that AT&T had the same problem, etc, etc. I re-iterated the point, and informed her more firmly that she would be provisioning Visual Voicemail, GPRS, and EDGE on my account. I was put on hold.
Ten minutes later or so, the annoying voice in my head ear returned, to inform me that she had made the necessary changes (but I thought no changes were necessary?) and that provisioning would take upto 24 hours (but I thought they were already provisioned?).

So. I am now left with an iPod Touch, that can make calls and send sms. Not really what I shelled out ¬£269 for, or why I’m paying ¬£45 a month, but there you go. 24.5 hours later and my GPRS/EDGE/Voicemail were still not working. I rang O2, again, and informed them of my unhappiness. The equally incompetent o2 iPhone team member attempted to patronise me. His first and only mistake. We finished up on the phone and a few minutes later everything started working.. The iPhone kicks ass. Can’t wait for a jailbreak

’nuff said. More to come when I’ve finished played with it… Perhaps

Pure brilliance. Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from “the cyberspace”. Aside applying a host of photoshop-esque features to what you see, in real time, they also feature the ability to turn everything into ASCII Art! Simply amazing! There is even a video you can watch!

In a random spurt of domain registering I’ve just bought

• willboyce.eu
• willboyce.co.uk

Don’t expect anything exciting from them, they’ll just point to willboyce.com - I’m going to take over the willboyce.* internet! Starting with willboyce.name which admittedly is a shit domain name but they don’t use it for the real purposes of the .name top level domain. I think an email to abuse@nic.name is in order! Good night to you all. It is late.

Hello again avid readers. It’s time for another post! My new pc came yesterday! It was originally bought with a media center pc in mind, but I’m having second thoughts now! The machine in question is a Shuttle XPC SN21G5, powered by a AMD Athlon 939 64 X2 4200+ with 2GB Crucial PC3200 RAM. Storage is provided by a Samsung SpinPoint SATA-II 250GB, with removable storage solutions being handled by an Akasa AK-ICR-01 Internal Card Reader and a =CD-088-SA" target="_new" title="Samsung SATA 20x DL DVD¬±RW" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outbound/www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid_br_/_=CD-088-SA');">Samsung SATA 20x DL DVD¬±RW. I was pretty pleased with what I got for under ¬£400! A little too pleased, as I was saying.. I’m currently writing this blog from the new PC, who is yet to make it under the tv from my desk! It kicks my current desktop machine, c-plusplus, right out the park. It’s hard to think it’ll be sat under the tv only serving media. (Well, I say only!).

She’s currently running Vista, mostly because it was the only OS disk I could find last night. I am now fully equipped with Ubuntu & XP MCE… MythTV seems far too temping an offer to pass up! I think I like Vista, once you take care of a few things like UAC, but we’ll have to see how using all my programs and what not goes. As soon as something I use isn’t compatable or we start crashing lots Vista will be straight in devnull! Infact, thinking about it I’m going to install Ubuntu shortly after I’ve finished this post… Which will probably be soonish!

I would promise photos but I still owe you pics of the new house, so I’ll say that I will try - but don’t hold your breath!
Right I’m off.. Speak to you all soon!

Should probably mention, I’ve called the new machine “pico” for now due to it’s size, however it’s only a temp name until I come up with a new naming scheme for the willboyce hq!