23 Oct 2005
Yesterday was the 2nd Developer Developer Developer Day resulting in a few drinks down Vodka Revolutions followed by a geek dinner down at Zizzi's. There were alot of interesting talks throughout the day; James Crowley's talk on AJAX in ASP.NET was great. The WPF (Avalon) was cool, great speakers can really make...
19 Oct 2005
My O2 XDA Exec arrived yesterday in what can only be described as one of the funkiest boxes ever. The device is similar in size to the XDA II overall and a tiny bit heavier. The screen is amazing, looking back at the older model its like going back to...
16 Oct 2005
When I first got hold of Visual Studio 2005 beta2 and created a webapp I tried copying the built in webservers url to firefox and opera to see how the thing rendered, which never worked. And I only figured this out today. Select the property pages of the website in...
15 Oct 2005
I just ordered the XDA Exec from o2. Those guys are useless sometimes. Be warned when phoning them to upgrade your phones, check online and see how much a new customer can get it for. In my case a new customer can get the phone for £140 when my upgrade...
12 Oct 2005
O2 now have the XDA Exec for sale, i choked on my crisps when i saw the price. £139.99! with a 18month contract at £35 a month (i currently fork out around £30 a month). So I will be changing from the old school genie contract to this one, get...
11 Oct 2005
I called up O2 yesterday to enquire about the XDA Exec, they said they don't know the release date but quite possibly next week. Someone else told me that on their contract, £20 a month, when they enquired about it they were told they could upgrade for £220, quite a...
11 Oct 2005
My local football club Swindon Town FC (soccer for you rich American people) is crap basically, we've lost 8 games in a row and are bottom of the league. It was only two years ago that we were in the playoffs - we have potential we just need your love (money). So I'm...
09 Oct 2005
I've had my tablet (PLUTO) for a few months now and only just installed the Tablet
PC SDK. Got an idea of a project I want to do, first I'll play around and see
how difficult it will be, but PORN could be resurected.
08 Oct 2005
I booked my holiday for christmas, I'm off to Val
Thorens in the South of France for a week skiing with the University Ski club
:)
06 Oct 2005
...or Opera becomes free. We all knew this would happen, well I did. Now that the Opera browser is free Opera is reporting that they've had a large number of new users download the browser (3million) - or is that people who already paid top dollar for it downloading it...