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22/05/06 Ringing Home - Moving to the UK
Exams are nearly clear. One to go.
As each passes, I begin to think a little more about the logistics of transporting my life over to London to work as a “Technical Graduate” for Reuters UK. Just today I got my schedule for the first month (all training!) before I take up my first of four work placements. I immediately added them to my Google Calendar.
This is an example of one of the ways I’ll be using web based, remote applications, to ease the volume from the list of 100 things I need to do. I’m consciously on the lookout for anything that may make my hot desking transition smoother.
Today I spotted Juvino which will undoubtedly make it cheaper to ring Ireland (where the lady-friend** will still reside!). Juvino downloads to your phone and dials a local number to your location and clicks onto a VOIP network, very similar to Skype Out (but you pay the local call to the exchange and a small fee to Juvino, and it works from your mobile phone).
What’s special about it? Before you make the call it prices it for you on-screen. So you can decide whether or not it’s the cheapest method. 5p a minute + local call from your mobile, very nice if you ask me!
Notes: I’m also aware that many operators are offering local rate England->Ireland calls on their plans, e.g. Vodafone, O2 Business… on a tangent, I have a friend whos mother bought both an O2 Speakeasy Nightowl (cheap off-peak), and Early Bird (cheap peak rate) simcards, and just swapped it in for whatever time of the day it was for all-day flat-rate calls, truly funny.
** Note-to-self ‘buy shares in Ryanair’, I’ll have some air miles by the end of it!
Tags: General, Observations, Reuters
4 Comments
I’ve previously blogged quite a bit about working from virtual offices as the flexibility of my ‘independent digital lifestyle’ is what makes the hard word of self employment really worth it for me. So I’m very interested in this series of posts Robin and looking forward to reading about the various solutions you find.
Do you mind me asking if you’re actually going to be commuting back and forth daily? Crikey!
Oh, btw, please, please get rid of that clicks hitcounter thingy - it comes through on the RSS feed and is very distracting! Whinge, whine, whinge, whine…. ;-)
Oooh I love the click counter lol! ok. ok… if it’s REALLY annoying I may drop it.
No, not daily. not a chance. But probably bi/tri-weekly.
Robin, Good luck with the move. Spent many happy years myself just down the road in Swindon , had just finished college at the time as well.
Interesting stats from the counter - read 411 times , yet 3 comments. About 100 readers for every comment!
yeh you see read stats are a little off. A read counts when the post gets shown in full, i.e. on the homepage, not just when clicked into the permalink.
So they amass a huge number of reads for the first while while on the homepage each gets +1 reads everytime it’s surfed to.
