I have had my HTC Desire on Orange for a while now and I think it is fair to say the honeymoon period is over! First of all, Orange have been a nightmare. The service is terrible (compared to O2). I seem to either have HSPDA access (great!) or Edge or more often than not nothing!!! Pretty bad for the people with the largest ’3G network’! Moving on to the handset, the update to Froyo (Android 2.2) took quite a while to come out. I was impatient and so installed many of the custom firmwares. I tried: DJDroid – ReliableRead more
Well sort of. This is a quick post to say I am back! I will post what I have been up to recently in the next couple of days. I just want to check this is coming through on my new hosting.
Sorry all, I have had to switch back to my old theme. The comments plugin is broken in other themes
It has been a crazy few months. It all started when I left Gamesys. At Gamesys I was a flash developer. We produced gambling games. We used the flex sdk to compile, we used HudsonCI for continuous builds. We even (many moons ago) used to develop using TDD. It was, for a long while, a serious programming outfit. For many reasons, I decided a change would be good and so I took the plunge and accepted a position at Fuse, who I had been really been impressed by. Fuse is a digital agency with strong video and 3d skills. SkillsRead more
I replaced (upgraded?) my iPhone for a HTC Desire. I started off by getting annoyed at people for not having html versions of their flash sites, then I got annoyed at Apple for not allowing flash on their iPhones and then I decided to go with the internet and embrace flash. So I bought a HTC Desire. I got my Desire about 2 months ago. It was free on a £30 / month price plan from Orange (who turned out to have a worse network than 3!). The handset it amazing. The battery is average, the screen display is veryRead more
I have not blogged for ages! Sorry! Things have been pretty crazy the last couple of months. I will post more on that very soon! I am now back and will be blogging until you are sick of it! Ha ha ha!
I have been using Google Apps for over a year and I love the service. [Email] In the past year I have had about 20mins of downtime which is less than a third of the downtime I had when I paid for hosting. The service includes great spam filtering, good message labeling, secure imap and pop3 and webmail. The service is fast and very reliable. It is much better than squirrelmail. [Sites] I used Google Sites to host a website for our wedding. It was inbetween using a template service like RV Site Builder and a wiki. It was easyRead more
I am heading off to IGE today. IGE is: The most influential group of gaming industry speakers ever assembled at a b2b exhibition will feature at the IGE Gaming Leaders Programme of presentations, seminars and round table discussions. The three day programme, consisting of 50 sessions with more content being added up until the shows open, will deliver a unique insight and crucial first-mover advantage across a range of important commercial, technological, legislative and social responsibility areas I am going to be checking out all of the offline slot games and some of the online ones too. I have heardRead more
I have been a very busy bee the last few weeks. Heather and I have set a date for the wedding !! (22nd August 09) !! We have received permission from the priest and we have a venue !! I am sure there will be more posting on the wedding in the next few weeks !! I have had to rebuild flour.doughball.co.uk. It was in a bit of a state after I tried to get a media center installed on it. There isn’t very good suppor for VIA gfx chipsets in Linux! I am glad the job is done andRead more
I had to go up to a funeral this week. It was my better half’s granny. It was a sad day but the funeral went without problems, which was nice. We had a nice time shopping and sight seeing there too. We went to Provand’s Lordship which is the oldest house in Glasgow. It is filled with furniture from the period and has some interesting biography information on people from Glasgow. We also went to People’s Palace. This place was better but we didn’t really get to look around. It has a history of the city including WWII. We alsoRead more