Mobile blogging

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: knowledge

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I’ve been thinking about why that might be.

The obvious one is time, or rather the lack of it. The other is that whenever I have an idea for a post, I’m not near a computer.

Well the other day I purchased an iPod touch (32gb), and it turns out that I’m loving the onscreen keyboard, which seems to know what I wand to type I just need to vaguely aim at the right section of the keyboard and it just works. !!

That coupled with the wifi access and the wordpress app are turning this into a groovy little device :-)
So, it’s just down to my ideas now …

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: no idea

Just testing so ignore this please

50 pence bollocks!

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: free speech

I have just learnt that UK government is going to remove Britannia from the 50 pence coin.

What complete and utter bollocks! I can’t believe that yet *another* British icon is being savaged by the political correctness brigade!!

Over 30,000 people have protested against the change, I wonder how many people have complained about Britannia in the past?!

With every passing day England is turning into a PG-rated country, what the bloody hell is next on the list? Perhaps we should change the Union Jack to a beige non-descript flag, so as to make sure that it doesn’t offend anyone?!

Update:
Here they are… http://www.royalmint.com/newdesigns/designsRevealed.aspx

Not sure I like them, I like the fact that each of the old coins was unique and had it’s own story…

Blogging from n770

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: flickr, fun, geek

Is it really possible to blog from a nokia 770? - apparently it is :-)
A photo:

First Architecture driven qik cast!

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: architecture, life, qik

There you are, just driving a long doing your qik thing, when someone comments live on the stream. This guy called John, from Portland Maine, says hi, and before I know it i’m driving down to Bradford Stree, in Braintree so that we can look at a some architecture.

So, here is the result. A 20 min qik cast of Bradford Street. I have to say, that it was cool to get live feedback while it was being streamed - that really is the best thing about qik!

Oh yeah, thanks John!

office chair + child = fun!

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: fun

It’s amazing how much fun you can have with an office char and a child who likes to go fast!

Twitter is light and airy

Posted by: nigel  :  Category: free speech, web2.0

When I started micro-blogging, I started with Jaiku. For reasons that I still can’t quite grasp, I’ve switched to twitter and seem to be keeping it up as well. More than that, I seem to be actually enjoying it too!

I think that it’s down to the fact that twitter has more of a chatty feel to it; you get people just saying what’s on their mind. Be that a rant, or the fact that they are making a chocolate pudding! With other micro-blogging solutions, there seems to be pressure to post something that actually means something, be that a link, video, url or whatever. Turns out that I don’t like that kinda pressure.

So, when people predict the demise of twitter, especially with the out-of-beta launch of pownce, I think they are missing the point. It’s not about features, it’s about the ‘feel’ of it.

Twitter is light and airy.

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Posted by: nigel  :  Category: ma.gnolia

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Calculate the number of working days between two dates - RailsOnWave Ruby on Rails web 2.0 Ajax

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I’m a Richardson, RU? » Blog Archive » RubyOnRails using MSSQL Server and FreeTDS

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Tarkblog » Business Logic != Database Logic

Tarkblog » Business Logic != Database Logic

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Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew | BetterExplained

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the { buckblogs :here }: Skinny Controller, Fat Model

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Ruby on Rails Video

Ruby on Rails Video

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1

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