Blog Archive — Page 23
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
Today, I received a rather unusual e-mail. Or more precisely, nine rather unusual e-mails within about a second of each other. They were of the following form, altering only the onlydreaming.net link in the middle to use another WordPress tag (always ending with /feed): Hello, I work for the digital marketing...
I am due to upgrade my mobile phone in a couple of months, so yet again it’s time to pick the best of a generally bad bunch that I will be lumbered with for the next two years. Roughly speaking, my choice is: Phone Decent hardware Software updates Good battery...
So apparently, a lot of people are gathering in Chicago right now to protest at the NATO Summit taking place there this week. NATO Summit Protests (photo from Time Out Chicago) I need to get myself a plane ticket to Chicago, because I have problems with NATO. Big, big problems....
I think I recall reading Roger Zelazny’s book Nine Princes in Amber as a kid, and enjoying it. Now the rest of the series sit atop my metaphorical reading list – not a real pile of books, but a prioritised list of regrets at all the renowned works of fiction...
If any of my readers are also SuccessWhale users, you may have noticed that for the last few days, clicking the “Conversation View” button for a tweet (this one: ) has resulted in a message declaring that you have tried to look at a “protected or deleted tweet” even though...
My mobile phone contract has well and truly hit the “18-month itch” stage – although I still have six months until an upgrade is due, I can’t help but look at adverts and scan gadget blogs and think “ooh, I want one of those”. I could go for an iPhone,...
With my recent acquisition of a Bluetooth keyboard added to the PowerSkin, my phone has completed its transition from thin, attractive polycarbonate slate to the monstrous assault on product design you see before you. Or so I would have said in the dim and technologically distant days of 2010. But...
Today’s union meeting, the latest in a series that have been held every few weeks since January, was more than I could face. I skipped it to eat lunch and tackle an interesting software problem instead. It’s not that I don’t want my voice to be heard; to take part...
Here’s some initial design ideas for a location-aware chat app that, as far as I am aware, has significant new features over and above existing mobile chat apps (iMessage, WhatsApp, BBM etc.) and existing location-based functionality in apps (FourSquare, Facebook check-ins, Google Places). Background The inspiration for this idea came,...
As a twenty-six-year-old software engineer – I shan’t use the word “programmer”, for obvious reasons – who’s only ever really had one job, I probably ought to refrain from posting an opinion on this post: Don’t Call Yourself a Programmer But I will anyway. It’s true, every single word of...