Infernus

Well, I’ve had a few days with Windows Mobile 5. In some ways, great. In other ways, it doesn’t seem to have come as far as it should.

Let’s start with the old complaints – who came up with the idea of the ‘close’ button hiding an application? Yes, you can fix it with task managers [...]

I’ve done a terrible, terrible thing – like a less whiney version of a certain young Jedi I’ve embraced the dark-side and bought a Windows Mobile 5 device.

The catalyst was Polly breaking her Palm; it happens, but it shouldn’t. The cursed thing decided no way was it going to reboot. Soft-reset? Nope. Warm-reset? Yeah, but [...]

Every so often I think to myself “I will update my blog more regularly”. Perversely, those thoughts usually occur just before a prolonged period of silence. But tonight I’m trying to clear some backlog, maybe even the masses of e-mails I have yet to reply to. Bad me.

In an attempt to avoid this I’ve [...]

Or at least she’s stunned me with her unusual enthusiasm for Pirates!

Normally I suffer long suffering sighs from Polly when I’m playing games. After watching me play online games to death (ah, free time, thou should’st be living at this hour) with friends and then even suffering my playing of Half-life 2 at top speed [...]

Everyone loves Ruby on Rails. It seems to be in the same space as Python a year ago – it’s the hip, ‘in’ thing and everyone needs to learn about it. And when it works, it#039s fantastic. And when it doesn’t… well, you don’t need to Google far to hear the screams.

And that is (IMHO) [...]