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Can someone tell me why I always lose money when playing poker on-line on my laptop, while I make a (small but steady) profit when playing on my mobile with the PokerRoom GPRS client?

It's almost as if the pocket cards dealt include some sort of compensation for my network charges.. or for the fact that I look like a total dork when playing in the pub. But hey, on average I earn two free pints a night - not bet for a mediocre Texas Hold'Em player.

Mobile MSN

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Skint? Out of batteries? No problem. Add mobile@robertjohnkaper.com to your MSN list: I finally have got Sony Ericsson's "My Friends" instant messenger working on my (W810i) phone using my regular GPRS settings and a Smart VAS account (will try Yamigo another time). Wicked. This feature definitely beats having to use the WAP interface for eBuddy.com because it runs in the background and interacts with the regular event/alert functions of the phone, while having an optimised interface (T9-enabled) that simply means chat and click instead of having to enter form inputs and submitting them separately.

Rob's a happy mobile user tonight. IMPS rules!

More site updates

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Wonderful news: I have optimised my site for mobile use, although currently only for my own phone to save bandwidth costs using GPRS when making updates. If anyone has a list of mobile device User-Agent identifiers, that would be most useful. Some of the optimisations go beyond stylesheet adjustments and actually limit the amount of content being sent alltogether, so knowing the User-Agent is necessary.

Other small updates include a Lite version of the the new Neon Rock style and small icons indicating whether a post was made with a regular desktop system or my handheld. The detection is automatic, of course.

Save bandwidth for GPRS

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Note to self: optimise my web site for mobile (GPRS) use. Too many unimportant data is sent to my phone currently and I could strip some of it, providing faster and more cost-efficient mobile access to features of my site including update functionality.

Expect more (drunken) updates

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Life is good. I was never able to post updates to my journal from my phone but today I figured out why: I had not enabled cookies. I'm actually writing this on my Sony Ericsson K750 while enjoying bitterballs and a pint of beer at the pub. My GPRS subscription will finally be useful in more ways than checking live football scores and train schedules!

Next step will be to add proper MMS parsing to my journal for live (gig) pictures and maybe a transformation engine to translate SMS talk into proper English.

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