Bottle (verb): to put into or seal in a bottle: e.g. to bottle grape juice.

Imagine my surprise today when I heard on the radio that “A teenager was bottled in Glasgow” - my honest initial reaction (and that of Morph) was how the hell did he fit, and why!? It later became apparent that they were referring to an incident in which a teenager was attacked with a bottle, and were using the term in such a way as you might used “knifed”

I would expect better of Clyde 1 than to make up words during a news bulletin, particularly during an actually quite significant story that shouldn’t really have been providing amusement!

When I launched O2MMS for iPhone I never expected to get such demand for the service, there are over 1000 unique users now!

Please Apple, O2 etc… TAKE NOTICE - there are at least 1000 people in the UK who WANT to be able to use MMS on their iPhone (think of the lost revenue if nothing else ;)) - provide NATIVE MMS support in version 1.1.3 or 1.1.4!!!

Thanks to those few who have donated to support the O2 MMS application, it’s much appreciated (just think if everyone who used the app donated £1….)

PRIVACY NOTICE: This service does not store your mobile number in any database, for anonymous statistic gathering purposes a unique checksum is generated from your mobile number (using md5) - this cannot be reversed to return the number that it was generated from but since it’s extremely unlikely that two mobile numbers would result in the same checksum it’s possible to check any new registrations against this database to ensure that someone who uses the service from more than one phone, or has tried it out on their desktop, are not counted twice. I value your privacy, and do not log MMS message content, phone numbers, pins, or any other personal information.

A colleague just called me from Switzerland from his mobile. It cost him nothing.

He phoned from a Nokia phone with SIP over WiFi to his ADSL Router, this then connected over the internet to a service in the US where it entered the public telephone network, the call continued over international lines to a UK phone number which is terminated in London… this then got encoded and transmitted over SIP to my asterisk box, and from there over WiFi to my own VoIP cordless phone….

All with no break-up, no lag, no echo… and no call charge - BT can’t even manage that (even excepting the charge bit)

First Christmas in the new place, so needed to go slightly more overboard than previously with the tree

Think we’ve managed to squeeze more decorations and lights on this (smaller) tree than we ever did at number 18

On a related note… Dobbies Garden Centre trees and lights - Great, their 2.99 Christmas CD… less so