7 months on…
13 Dec 2007
Wow, it's been nearly 7 months since my last blog entry and im not going to apologise
about not blogging since thats become such a cliche thing to do.
A bits happened over the last...oh month or 2.
TrackMe
Over at SportsDo we've released a beta of our
new social tracking platform called TrackMe.
This is aimed at anyone whose after tracking themselves and sharing their location
with their friends. You can also aggregate geodata from other places like geocoded
photos from Flickr and show them in one place.
I've overheard several people talking on nights out about how their phone has GPS
(usually the N95) and others asking if they can find their friends...well with TrackMe this
becomes possible. You can TrackMe here,
or if you've got a Java based phone with GPS then signup and give it a go. If you
haven't got GPS you can manually enter your location - so there is really no reason
not to give it a go.
LiveNet
On the side I've been working with Scott
Lovegrove on a managed library, called LiveNet, wrapping the Windows Live APIs,
which was alpha released recently. Head over to codeplex to
check it out and check out Scotts post over at LiveSide.
Interview with Mark Johnston
MarkJ asked me some questions about
being in the Imagine Cup all those
years ago.
New PC
The last time I touched my desktop with an upgrade was sometime back in the dark ages
(2003) so I've felt obliged to update the poor thing, and by update I mean build a
whole new machine so this one can be used as a Windows
Home Server.
My current spec PC is
- AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.08GHz)
- 1GB Ram
- ATI Radeon 9600 256mb GPU
The new 'beast'
-
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient
95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor -
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP AiLifestyle Series
P35 Socket 775 Socket eSATA 8 channel Audio ATX Motherboard -
PowerColor HD 3850 256MB GDDR3 256bit
Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card -
Antec P182 Black SPCR Advanced Super
Mid Tower - No PSU -
Antec TruePower Trio 550W PSU - With
3x 12v Rails and 120mm Fan -
2 x Kingston 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Memory Non-ecc CL5 Unbuffered 1.8V -
LiteOn LH-20A1S 20X SATA DVD±RW/DL
Black Bare Drive - OEM -
Raptor WD740DFD 74GB SATA 10KRPM 16MB
Cache - OEM
I'm hoping I will see a slight improvement from the upgrade. It's my Christmas present
to myself....and birthday and hannukah and divali and eid for the next 2-3 years.