Dissertation from 2002

I just uploaded my dissertation. Not because I thought it was that good, or because I think people who read my blog will be interested in it. I have to continue wrtiting stuff as part of my probation studies, and I needed to reference its location in the bibliography. In my latest essay I reffered to it, mainly because I didn’t have the space, or the inclination to cover old ground.

By posting about it here I hope that the search engine bots will pick up on it and index it, then anyone who does have a slight interest in Walter Bruggemann, Covenant, Rhetoric, Social Power and Community might find it.

Funny Cartoon.

Well, I thought it was funny anyway.

Thanks to the Customer Evangelists blog

Isaac and Daddy Start a Project

I have started a project with Isaac (5). The plan is to spend two hours a week with him during term time, on a Tuesday after he has finished school. We are building a solar powered lighting system for his bedroom.

I hope that he is going to learn a little about the basics of electronics through doing it.

You can listen to Isaac talking about it here. As you will hear, he has a little way to go before he completly understands it!

http://graham.doel.org/mp3/

Hutchinson 3g have their head in the sand!

I have had the most unbelievable exchange of e.mails this weekend, read on:

>—–Original Message—–
>From: My3@three.co.uk [mailto:My3@three.co.uk]
>Sent: 31 March 2005 07:39
>To: customer.services@3mail.com
>Subject: My 3 Miscellaneous enquiry, PartyId 48838485, Msisdn 07888733975,
>
>From Graham Doel
>
>When I visit the My alerts section of the my3 website there is no style and
>the add alerts section does not appear to function.
>Thank you
>Graham Doel

Contact Centre wrote:

>Dear Mr Doel,
>
>Thank you for your e-mail.
>
>If this problem continues, it may be a fault with the handset itself. In
>this case, please contact our customer services number to book the handset
>into a repair centre. The repair centre will endeavour to pick-up the
>handset by courier, find and fix the fault, and return the handset back to
>you within 3 working days. Alternatively, if you are trying to add/take
>away alerts you can contact us either via e-mail or by once again contacting
>our customer services on the number below or 333 from your handset.
>
>I hope this is of hell and clarifies matters for you. Thank you for
>contacting 3.

—–Original Message—–

From: Graham Doel
Sent: 31 March 2005 14:00
To: Contact Centre
Subject: Re: 3 response~

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I was, however using the website on my PC, not on my handset. All other areas of the site displayed the style correctly but the alerts section. It looks like a web design error to me.

Thanks again

Graham

—–Original Message—–
From: Graham Doel [mailto:Graham@1stmorecambe.net]
Sent: 01 April 2005 15:28
To: Contact Centre
Subject: Re: 3 response~

Hi,

Thanks for replying.

> Dear Mr Dole,

It’s usually spelt Doel, but I’m quite used to people getting it wrong

> Thank you for your quick reply. I apologise for the misunderstanding as to which equipment you were accessing the alerts. This problem I have not come across both personally, or with other customers. As far as I can make out it is not an error at our end. May I ask if you are using any firewall/anti-virus/pop-up blocking software? Are using the most up to date version of Internet Explorer with 128 bit cipher strength? Are you using Windows-based software, or any other Operating System software to access our website?

I see. I am using Firefox. It runs faster and is generally more compliant with industry standards than I.E.. Unfortunately some people choose to target their sites at a specific browser. May I ask if you have any plans to make your site compatible with any browser, or are you intending staying I.E. specific.

Thank you for your help, I will use I.E. next time I use the site.

Thanks
Graham Doel

Hi Mr Doel,

I apologise for the incorrect spelling, unfortunately it was a Friday afternoon J.

Firefox is a program, I am sorry to say, I have never heard of but shall look into purely for knowledge – keep the old grey matter oiled.

Unfortunately, IE is the only supporting browser and as far as I know there are no plans for future developments with regards to other browsers. I will however, put forward some feedback regarding the usage of other browsers, such as Firefox.

Good luck using IE, and thanks once again for contacting 3.

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Re: 3 response~
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:09:49 +0100
From: Graham Doel
Organization: Stanley Road Baptist Church
To: Contact Centre
References: <316A24323A64B24BACB7DEA440276E939BAF2D@W104CS009V01.corpuk.net>

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

> I apologise for the incorrect spelling, unfortunately it was a Friday afternoon J.

No worries.

> Firefox is a program, I am sorry to say, I have never heard of but shall look into purely for knowledge – keep the old grey matter oiled.

Goodness. Where have you been!
Here are a couple of links to help you with your research:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=firefox&num=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

It is unfortunate that you only support I.E.. Perhaps you could urge your website development team to take the current trends in web browsing seriously.

Thanks again

Graham Doel.