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It’s taken a Powerbook to convince me of the worth of Bluetooth – synchronising with my P800 is way, way simpler than it used to using the Windows software. Pair up the phone with the Powerbook (which worked flawlessly, to my total amazement), hit iSync and away it goes.

Then I started getting adventurous, and wondered what would happen if I used the P800 as a GPRS modem. I never managed to get this working under Windows, and ran out of patience trying. But OS X has made the whole thing a lot easier if you know how – and Dave Miller does. Follow his instructions, and you’ll be surfing away in no time – although your GPRS bill will be mounting at the same time, which is why I haven’t been surfing with wild abandon just yet – but it may yet come in useful for those moments when I absolutely have-to-must get on the net..

We were woken up at 8 o’clock this morning by a thunderous banging on the front door, so cursing whoever it was who was so damn antisocial as to be banging on the front door at that hour, I got up. Which was a mistake. Rather than the warm, dry carpet that normally covers the bedroom floor, this was cold, wet carpet – squelchily-wet carpet in fact.

Turns out there was a leak in the apartment next door, and as our next-door neighbour is apparently away for a couple of weeks, it had been leaking unchecked for some considerable time. So now we’ve got cold, wet, squelching carpets throughout, anything that was on the floor overnight is soaked, and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of it drying out any time soon. The efficiency and effectiveness of the contents insurance policy is about to be tested. The irony of all this is that living by the side of the river, we’re regularly asked what we’re going to do when it bursts its banks and floods us out (for the record, it would need to rise something like 25 feet and overwhelm the flood barriers before there was real cause for concern.) We now know exactly where the lowest point on the whole floor of the building is – it’s about two feet and slightly to the left of our front door…