this is a test

trying to see if the email function works...

made it!

ags:
cold beer, hot sun. all is well and having fun.
love: d


kdwPODmail

I am tech support

It seems Dad is having some trouble sending email from his iPod. (See emails below.) Which makes me wonder: what is SMTP and how does it work?

dadaroo,

My SMTP is smtp.telus.net
I'm not sure exactly how SMTP works, but it may be that you have to be
in a geographical region to make it go.

Alternatively, you would log on to you webmail and send messages via
the internet. That's what I usually have to do when traveling with the
laptop. If I'm on a (or near) Telus network I can send from the Mail
program. But even if I'm in Calgary (where it's "telusplanet" instead
of "telus") I'll get an error message and won't be able to send.

I highly recommend that you access your email via webmail.

Have you been to your blog yet?

Hope you are having fun!
Love,
Adrienne


2008/6/25 kdw :
>
> ags:
> still experiencing hard times sending. what is your outgoing mail server
> address? I have used smtp.telusplanet net with not much luck. any help from
> your geeks would help!
> love: d
>
>
> kdwPODmail
>
>

Is there anybody out there?

My parents are in the Czech Republic - or at least headed that way. I've made them this blog so that they can post their adventures. My Dad has been asking me for years to teach him how to use Blogger. I haven't because it doesn't seem like something that needs to be taught. Not like how to truss a chicken, how to make pastry or how to speak another language.

This assumption on my part is, I now realize, part and parcel of the egocentrism of a child in relation to her parent. Of course he must know everything I know. Or at least have all the skills I possess to figure stuff out, if not more. But we are from different times and places and our facility with our environments - cyber or otherwise - is also very different.

So they are headed to Prague. Seems everyone is off to Czech. My colleague Marcus is going to a literary festival in Brno as part of a contingent of Canadian writers. Go Canada!

For my part, I will remain at home in sunny (for now) Vancouver. I will go to the beach. I will. I mean it.

Here's what Dad wrote to us (my sisters and I) today:

ladies:
all is well, except for trying
to find free wireless. should be
able to do more when we hit
amsterdam tomorrow,
weather has been great.
done some hiking, cycling and
lots of castle cruisin.
doing this from the local netcafe.
will try to give more info starting
tuesday.
love:. d

I'm looking forward to the pictures!