The sms_to_lj equipment was finally turned off last night (and my home office is considerably quieter for it!).

Those of you who were still using it need to head on over to Ping.fm for all your social networking SMS requirements. See here for more information about my involvement with ping.fm ( Read more... )

I'm going to be closing down the sms_to_lj service soon, but read on because this isn't actually bad news :)

The sms_to_lj service I created has been constantly (apart from a few outages) posting your text messages to LiveJournal since 2003. In that time it's taken over 100,000 of your messages containing insightful thoughts, social commentary and general nonsense ( Read more... )

There was an unplanned outage overnight (24/07/08 - 25/07/08) due to equipment failure.

Everything is back up and running now and messages sent during the outage have been queued and processed.

I love those TV adverts for Apple's iPhone that start "If you love facebook so much..." because I always end up shouting "WELL WHY DON'T YOU MARRY IT THEN?!" at the TV (link)... but really, loads of people use Facebook now!... or how about Jaiku? or Twitter? every single one of those has a status that can be updated ( Read more... )

I've deleted the last two posts and any rules contained within that affected, to my knowledge, no more than three regular users because they were attracting commentary from a wide range of people who have either never used the service or only used it once or twice ( Read more... )

I took some photos of my office today, including a few of the SMS gateway (and a closeup for people that are that way inclined).

LJ has announced official voice posting numbers for the UK, the unofficial UK voicepost number I've been providing for the past year or so will stop working effective immediately.

The sms_to_lj service is back up and running, again, my apologies for the prolonged outage!

Just as a refresher of what's provided: