Month: September 2005

Enter Stormhoek Disruption

Well, it’s done. My market has now officially been disrupted by Stormhoek through my blog and gapingvoid.

A bottle of Sauvignon Blanc was delivered by Kempen Wine Merchants (who seem to have a good range of wines they trade in).

Here’s the proof: (with my own genuine gapingvoid marketing note imitation)

Stormhoek Wine Blogger Freebie

Ok I didn’t get a number or a leaflet – that’s Hugh’s department, but I got the juice. And besides, I know I’ve got Limited Edition Bottle Number 1 of x for South African bloggers.

I guess you could say that the cluetrain just pulled in at my station.

Thanks to Graham and Stormhoek, as well as Hugh Macleod.

A review to follow soon…

Dreary Leery …

Leery playing at Charelli’s. All right I guess. They didn’t blow me away though. I’d think twice before going to see them again.



Where is the Stormhoek blogger freebie for South Africans?

Lovely, they’ve had a Stormhoek bloggers wine freebie in the UK, Ireland, and now France, so where’s the freebie for South African bloggers?

While we may not be the target market, or the largest market, we are a market, and we’re the home market.

I’m a blogger. I’m South African. Disrupt my market dammit!

😛

(P.S. Delivery costs should be cheap)

Tuesday …

Tuesday evening is the night in which we pillage beer in vast quantities and smoke way too much.



Categories
Computing

MotoRAZR V3 MoBlogging with b2evolution

So the wonderful b2evolution blogging engine comes with a ‘mms.php’ file to allow for parsing of MMS messages sent via mobile phone into blog entries.

It was a little tricky to get going, but with the help of the b2evo HowTo I managed to get it going on my Motorola RAZR V3.

The steps taken were as follows:
Menu -> Message Center -> Message Setup -> MMS Message Setup -> Server Info
From there I created a new Server Info profile with Server Name of

https://dewberry.co.za/mms.php?login=username&pass=password&cat=##

The trickiest part here was getting the right category number to substitute for ##. This required looking in the Admin -> Categories section of b2evolution for a suitable category number which could be used. I selected to use an existing Web Session, in my case MTN-WAP-GPRS (my WAP/GPRS/MMS profile for connecting my phone to the web via GPRS).

From there I simply gave the Service a Name and selected it as the default Service for MMS.

After that I took a quick test photo and sent it to any number in my address book (I chose myself, just in case). The message delivery claims to have failed, but a quick refresh of the browser window, and voila, MoBologging in action!