- October 30, 2007
Thanks to TUAW, I found Stephen Fry's blog today. Despite claiming to be somewhere in deepest (flattest) Norfolk, far from the realms of Edge let alone 3G and Wifi, he's posted a great (and long) Blessay (his word) on smartphones. He's also writing a weekly technology column for the Guardian. Who'd have thought I had something in common with Stephen Fry, apart from a rapier wit and a penchant for writing ridiculously long (and infrequent) blog posts I mean. To give that context - and to stop...
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- October 26, 2007
Over 10 years ago, Microsoft plunked down $150 million to buy a stake in Apple. The share price back then (January 1997) was about $3.50. Today Apple is trading at $185. That's around $7.9 billion in today's money. Over the same period Microsoft stock is up about 50% (including it's near 10% rise today). I imagine Microsoft ditched that stock long ago - there was even talk at one time that they might have shorted Apple on the day that they bought it to hedge any risk. Folks have even been...
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- October 26, 2007
Ok, so yes, I'm an "early adopter." I'm definitely on the left hand side of the chasm when it comes to all things technology. It's always been fun to try something new and shiny whether it was my first encounter with the Apple II (1978), a CD player (1985 - when Dire Straits released Brothers in Arms), the Apple Mac (1989, especially with Wingz, the first graphical spreadsheet I'd seen, possibly the first spreadsheet as I had no idea what Visi-Calc was at the time), going online...
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- October 24, 2007
I've had a search widget on the right of this site for a month or so now. It's provided by Lijit who I read about on Brad Feld's website who I came across after I met Charlie Feld, his uncle, and a senior guy at EDS. And so the world turns. I love this widget. Every week they send me a mail with the stats of who is searching for what, what they clicked on, how they got to the site (if they used another search engine - and some 300 people a week get to this site from...
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- October 23, 2007
A while ago I wrote about my experience booking a flight with British Airways, specifically the bit where it says "who are you" and, evidently far more importantly, "what is your title" I've pasted in a couple of shots of the drop down menu presented. I don't think anyone believed me when I posted about it last time. So here they are, a little hard to read ... a section of A to B and G to H including "Her Highness", "Air Marshall" (of which, one imagines, there are only..
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- October 22, 2007
Seen on a whiteboard in a vendor's conference room, under the bold headline of "Lessons Learned", two lonely bullets: Lessons learned in the past had not been applied Expectations were set too high 'Twas ever thus
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- October 7, 2007
Whilst writing my triptych "the only iPhone review you'll ever need" last week I spent a fair while looking for data that showed actual usage of 3G services in the UK. I tried various searches in Google and Windows Live (a search engine that has come on leaps and bounds recently and that I really quite like), but most of them returned links to the contents pages of reports published by various doubtless august research bodies, all of whom wanted thousands of dollars to get at the actual...
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- October 6, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I presented at Qbit's TestExpo in Manchester. Rare indeed is it for me to go there these days. There was a good turnout, a whole bunch of presenters and me to wrap up the show before the prizes, the bar and the night shift. What would you expect for an audience of testers Having spent the day gabbing I was sure they'd have to go back to work right after I was done. These are the slides from the presentation I gave (If you're reading this in an RSS reader..
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- October 5, 2007
Things that make you go "uhhh..." I love most of what the iPhone does but there are some things that just make you slap your hand to your forehead. Some of these can, I hope, be fixed with future software releases, some will doubtless not be fixed until the hardware changes. Some will never be fixed. First, the things that everyone, especially the UK press, have already complained heavily about: - GPRSEdge. It's slow, yadda yadda. Every pundit has slammed Apple for using this 2.5G...
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- October 1, 2007
I said I'd talk about the good things about the iPhone first - the things that make you go Hmmmm. But first, some context, especially for those who think I'm a gadget obsesses, chaser of trivialities (you're not wrong, it's just there's a reason as well). I've had my problems with phones, and have often posted ... e.g. about the Samsung, Treo 600, all Nokia phones, the Sony Ericsson range at large, early 3g phones, or just phones in general. I could have posted more previous...
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