New Toys
My Mum and Nana got me a shiny toy for my birthday — a Canon EOS 400D. New only to me, but I’m enjoying it a lot :). Best of all, the kit lens that came with it isn’t too … Continue reading
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Testing Vid.ly (Kirsty and Ewan sledging)
The Mozilla hacks blog had an article on Vid.ly, a new video encoding service from encoding.com. I thought I’d try it out. This is a video that Lizzie took of Kirsty and Ewan sledging, from the first snowfall of winter, … Continue reading
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Migrating contacts from S40 to Android
Lizzie and I recently got ourselves an HTC Desire each, to replace my Nokia E71 and her Nokia 6700 Classic. It wasn’t hard to get my contacts out of my phone — S60 supports SyncML, so does Google, and they … Continue reading
PayPal visit?
We’re planning to go south for the Edinburgh weekend. The Pope will be in the UK then, so I thought I should check out his itinerary to ensure we weren’t trying to travel to the same place at the same … Continue reading
Similes for Version Control
Developing without using version control is like driving a car with no seats. I was having a discussion with a friend who is also a developer and discovered that he doesn’t use any version control. I hunted for a simile … Continue reading
Why DAB is different from Freeview
As a country, we’re in the middle of switching from analogue to digital television. The government wants to switch off analogue radio too, and move everyone to DAB, but I think this is a bad idea — while in broadcast … Continue reading
Blog migrated to Rackspace
I’ve migrated the blog to my Rackspace VM; you probably won’t notice any difference as the software is almost identical. It does feel a bit faster now, though, which is slightly odd: the old host was actually based in Edinburgh, … Continue reading
Using Rackspace Cloud Servers and Cloud Files together
I’m in the process of moving all my services to a VM running on Rackspace Cloud Servers, as they are cheap enough to compete with hosting myself, with the benefit that I don’t have to worry about hardware (the immediate … Continue reading
Short(ish) links
Why I don’t like link shorteners and what I’ve done about it. Continue reading
Software of the week: Top Hits Solitaires
I’ve played (and won) far too many games of Freecell since I got my phone Continue reading
