Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Open Source Smoothie

Open source software is good, so good it’s catching. After attending the local supermarket to purchase some food rations for the week ahead, I sat cracked open a carton of mangoes and passion fruits innocent smoothie. Once I’d satisfied my initial thirst I decided to have a read of the carton, they usually put some [...]

Dumfries – Rockin’ and Rolling

So today it’s boxing day and all the folks in Dumfries got an extra special, albeit late, Christmas present: 3.5 Richters of ass rocking earthquake! At 10:40 AM on the 26th December 2006 we had an earthquake lasting just 10 seconds and as I say measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. It’s the largest seismic [...]

It’s Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you have a good day and get all the socks and oranges you can handle. Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall? It’s the time that every Santa has a ball Does he ride a red nosed reindeer? Does he turn up on his sleigh? Do the [...]

High Definition viewing to commence

I’ve just ordered a new HD television from amazon.co.uk! This pretty much marks the completion of my newly refurbished bedroom and doubles as a nice Christmas present from my folks. The new TV replaces my, in long need of replacing, 15″ portable which I bought more than 6 years ago. The TV I opted for [...]

XDA Exec

I’ve not long since ordered a new phone/PDA. I’ve been looking to get a PDA since starting my project which will make use of PDAs extensivley as a platform for testing. Since then I’ve been on the lookout for a good PDA to grab. Also on the agenda has been getting a new mobile phone, [...]