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On this page - TTA Derby - Taekwondo Derby - Wedding Planner Derby - Brawn GP F1 teams up with Derby based Fish Media - Saw Movie - The Ride - Samsung U900 Soul (Un)Predictive Text Problem - Morgan Freeman - matt cruse mobile blog - O2 Mobile Phone Problems Continued - O2 Mobile Phone Problems - Pulling Status Updates From XML Feed - New Site Design -

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TTA Derby - Taekwondo Derby

07-06-2010

The Traditional Taekwondo Association Derby (TTA Derby) has a new website...

The website has new features such as belt information, videos of poomse (patterns) and general information about the TTA and the Derby Club.

We train on Mondays and Wednesdays (6-8pm) at Queens leisure centre, Derby and are looking for new starters.

If anyone is interested, please use my contact form here or visit the TTA Derby website (link below) to contact the instructor.

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Wedding Planner Derby

11-12-2009

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Brawn GP F1 teams up with Derby based Fish Media

17-06-2009

Formula 1 team, Brawn GP (www.brawngp.com) have selected Fish-Media (www.fish-media.net) as the provider for the team's email newsletter which is sent out twice, once before the race weekend and once after. 

Fish-Media are delighted to be working with Brawn GP on this and I think it's great that a small firm can work with a larger company providing great service.

This weekend it's the British Grand Prix coming up and we will all be rooting for a British victory. Go Brawn and Go Button!

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Saw Movie - The Ride

11-03-2009

Thorpe Park are opening a new ride in the spring of 2009. This is the Saw Roller Coaster and looks set to be a pretty awesome ride.

I've had a look at the website (which itself is pretty good too) check it out (link below).

Any fans of the Saw movies would love this.

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Samsung U900 Soul (Un)Predictive Text Problem

11-12-2008

I had been texting with the Samsung U900 Soul for a while and eventually found an annoying little quirk in the predictive text dictionary - on occasion it would display a number instead of the word you want e.g. “ok” would be shown as “65” and for some reason, “after” was shown as “afte7”.

The way to fix this is to “re-train” the predictive text and it’s dictionary – start a new blank message and then type in the word that you want, let’s take “ok” as an example.

Type ok, this will then come up as 65, press the 0/+ key to change it to the word you want and then press the space key, repeat the process until the word ok appears first time – this should have solved the problem :) 

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Morgan Freeman

24-11-2008

We watched Lucky Number Slevin the other day and noted that Morgan Freeman's introduction to the story was when he walked down some stairs - now this seems to be a running theme with Morgan Freeman in a couple of other movies - he came down some stairs in the film Wanted (with Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy - and if you have not seen this yet, you really should!) and he also came down a set of step ladders in Bruce Almighty (with Jim Carey). 

We tried to think of other films that he has been in where he has done the same but got stuck as we could not remember how the story went etc. If anyone knows any others where he has done the same, please comment and let me know :)

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matt cruse mobile blog

06-11-2008

I've now added a mobile blog:

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to my mattcruse.com website which I can update using the built in ShoZu application on my Samsung U900.

I Signed up for a Blogger account through Google and linked this with ShoZu (www.shozu.com). Now I can use the one touch "upload to web" option and send this direct to my mobile blog using the 3G+ network (very quick!) :) 

I've only added a picture I took a while ago as a test at the moment but keep checking back or subscribe to the feed for updates.

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O2 Mobile Phone Problems Continued

31-10-2008

So, where did we leave off? 

I finally received my new phone, a Samsung Soul U900 since when I called O2 the Sony Ericsson C902 is out of stock...surprise surprise!

Anyway, aside from the delivery address being incorrect (again!) and me having to phone DPD to get them to phone the driver to come back after he went to the wrong address, the charger that was supplied with the phone was incompatible and did not work - unbelievable!

After phoning O2 to make this complaint, I was sent out a new charger which, to my pleasant surprise, arrived today (next day delivery) - though the address was still wrong! Thank god for the common sense of the DHL man!

Hopefully this will be the end of the issue with mobile phones! Though I do have a couple of thoughts on this:

1. Do I still want to keep my contract with O2 when it's due for renewal?

2. Why, when you get a new phone after signing a new contract or renewing a contract you recieve a brand new phone, boxed and with all accessories, but when it fails (and is still under warranty) you get a replacement (reconditioned) phone with the basics?

Anyway, once I've mastered the Samsung Soul U900 I'll blog about it - keep an eye out for a mobile blog coming soon! :)

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O2 Mobile Phone Problems

28-10-2008

I've had my O2 contract for less than a year and have had 4 phones in this time! I got the LG Viewty - cancel key stopped working, got a Sony Ericsson K850i - phone switched itself off periodically and when turned back on was 'ok' until it turned itself off and then all it showed was the white screen of death, sent this back and got another which has now recently failed!

This time, the touch screen keys (which incidentally, control the menu and confirm buttons so you can't use the phone without these!) stopped responding. so I phoned O2 and was told the "phone was out of stock, phone back in a week". I phoned back in a week, phone was still out of stock - "phone back in a week". I phoned again a week later (by now 2 weeks) and was told "the phone is out of stock...and we're not re-stocking it" so I was offered a Sony Ericsson C902 - great, I thought, a nice new shiny phone :)

I got the phone, all worked fine, texting, camera etc. until it came to making a call! I realised that the microphone didn't work and nobody could hear me - pointless phone!! So I phoned O2 that day and was told, yes you guessed it, the phone was "out of stock"

ARRGGGHHH!! :(

...and breathe...

I was supposed to have a call and an email yesterday (Monday) to see if they had any in stock which they would send - its now Tuesday and I've heard nothing! If I ever get a replacement handset, I may be able to blog about it - however this may just continue to be a rant at O2....

If anyone else wants to share, please add your comments...

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Pulling Status Updates From XML Feed

21-10-2008

Learning all the time...I've managed to write a script to pull the status from an XML feed - with a little Google Search etc. etc. so far I've implemented this for Mackney.com so that all his current status updates are pulled through and shown on my links page. Check it out...

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New Site Design

08-10-2008

mjcruse.co.uk has a re-vamp...I've finally got round to updating my site design - been a while! I've decided to keep it a simple site this time round - too many funny things going on last time around, this is much nicer and hopefully I'll be able to add more informative blogs on. I've also added the ability for people to comment on my blog and bits items - so if you have any thoughts, questions etc. please comment or contact me using the contact form.

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