It’s that time of year again where I get a year older. I’m turning 25, and I’ve got a few announcements to make.

iPhone

I have bought myself an iPhone. It’s the greatest phone ever created! I have successfully unlocked and jailbroken the phone using ZiPhone 2.5, which allows me to use the phone in Norway. I’m not locked into a 2 year AT&T contract, and have the freedom to use whatever telco I like.

The phone itself is wonderfully easy to use. If you haven’t got one, I’m sorry. I installed a few 3rd party apps, such as Converter, AFPd and Touchpad, which are all pretty cool and useful apps.

It wasn’t all fun and games. I managed to brick the iPhone last night and thought I had lost it after less than a day. I had installed OpenSSH and, stupidly, changed the root password. That’s a bad idea. I should have paid attention to the warning about doing so on 1.1.3 or later firmware when installing the BSD Subsystem. But, after about 10 minutes of panicking, wondering if I would ever recover it, we managed to reset the password and get iTunes to restore the phone, after which I could unlock and jailbreak it all again.

New Web Host

I have now transferred my website to Dreamhost. My plan started out with 500GB of storage space (499GB more space than my previous host, where I only have 1GB). This is now enough space to use it as an IMAP mail server, to store all my archived mail from the past several years, and all future email. That’s much better than having to use POP3, which I have been using for quite a while now.

It’s possible that some things on this site may have been broken due to the move. If you find anything that doesn’t work, I would appreciate it if you let me know. There are some things that I know are broken, and I will be spending the next few days trying to verify that everything works fine.

This last weekend, from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th of January 2008, I travelled to Dublin, Ireland with a few friends from work, and a few of their friends. The trip was arranged by Ben, one of the other Aussies who worked at Opera, who’s now going back to Australia to study.

After arriving on Friday night, we went out to a few irish pubs in in the Temple Bar area — an region featuring many different pubs. I stayed in a backpacker hostel called Avalon House, sharing a 4 bed room with 3 others. The room itself was small, but clean. However, the bathroom needed maintenance and the breakfast they served (toast and jam , with orange juice, tea or coffee) was not that great.

On Saturday, we walked around the city to do some sight seeing. I took lots of photos, which I will publish on flickr in the next few days. In the afternoon, we toured the Guiness Storehouse, which was really interesting. I took some photos, but only managed to get them near the beginning of the tour because my camera batteries died.

After the tour, we we given a complimentary pint of Guinness in The Gravity Bar, the 7th floor with an almost 360 view of Dublin. After we left the Guinness Storehouse, we rode back to the Temple Bar in a horse and carriage, where we had dinner and did a little shopping before going out to some pubs. Of course, as all Aussies should know, Saturday was Australia Day, and it was great to be able to celebrate it in the traditional irish way: by getting drunk! 🙂

On Sunday morning, I decided to skip the breakfast at the hostel and went out for a delicious, traditional Irish breakfast. It was very much like the kind of cooked breakfasts we would get in Australia, with egg, bacon, baked beans and toast. The rest of the morning was mostly spent wandering around the shops, before having lunch in the park and then heading off to the airport.