In the beginning there was Warcraft. Then Warcraft II. Then Diablo and the massive time-sink that was Diablo II. Warcraft III didn’t help. And then where was World of Warcraft. I avoided it for a long time. Monthly fees, no demo means no buy-in from me. Until I stumbled across a trial at FilePlanet over [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Windows Mobile and Stress Levels
I was recently dragged up to sunny, sunny Scotland (watch for the snow-drifts) for a wedding (attempting to count Polly’s relatives may well induce a buffer overflow). And, as you do, I took my trusty Windows Mobile 5 HTC Wizard along for the ride. First night: I had forgotten to turn my alarm off. Never [...]
GMail fun
Microsoft have finally released an update for Entourage to provide iSync and Spotlight support. It’s been a while but at last the only reasons I haven’t tried Entourage have been solved. And so I’ve switched from Apple’s mediocre Mail to Entourage. The good – there’s a wide-screen layout, it’s a full group-ware client, its icons [...]
A madman runs the country
I’ve been undecided on Tony Blair for a while. After all, he did some rather smashing things for Britain. Incomes went up, the economies just kept going and Britain is a much more prosperous place than ten years ago. On the downside, we went to war in Iraq for the wrong reasons, he’s played Bush’s [...]
Fun and games in Kensington
Today started out stunning – sun, no wind, not a cloud in the sky – but as normal this state of affairs declined to persist and faded away into a mediocre cloudy afternoon. I hence decided to spend my Saturday afternoon pursuing that rather superb collection of museums out in South Kensington (V & A, [...]
Curses!
Well, I’ve been outclassed. The Tube Journey Planner not only maps the tube very nicely but integrates real-time problem information as well. Technically, they are cheating a bit. They’re using edited background images to show the tube lines. Hence it’s not easy to modify (not a problem in London as our chances of getting another [...]
Oh look! The Bank branch!
And here’s a second release of the tube-on-Google-Maps application. What’s new? We can now specify points between stations to let the line curve. The Bank branch is shown. The code is a lot cleaner and now uses objects. Still coming: Status information – It looks like I’d need to screen-scrape the ETA and travel news [...]
