One post in the months of November and December and we are already 9 days into January with nothing of note! Well I promise it’s nothing personal and to those who are still sticking around, I salute you.
Sometimes something you enjoy has to take a back seat when work gets a bit on top and at the moment I am juggling working 11 or 12 hour days with having a social life. It doesn’t quite fit together too well but it needs to be done.
Its akin to pulling out your finger nails with pliers but finally I have done it. When your computer takes 5 mins from boot to get to a point where you can use it and you have to click ok three times through errors you know its time to reformat your hard disk.
USB2 had turned back into USB1, I was getting read / write errors all the time and little messages about software I had never heard of. Sick to the back teeth of searching for adware or virus scanning I had to give in. Trouble is I had about 20 DVD’s of backups (general non vital stuff) to do first, but with a Saturday and Sunday spare I wrote off my weekend!!
It looks as though it really is the season to be releasing a browser with the recent official release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the third release candidate of Firefox 2. I can’t help feeling that the much of the coverage surrounding the releases really boils down to hype with the media and blogsphere trying to build this into another browser war.A ‘war’, ‘battle’, ‘face off’ or whatever you want to label it, regardless of who is contesting , requires two fundamental factors; 2 willing contenders.
A few days early but I have decided to reboot! Pain, sweat and tears but finally I am happy enough to go live with this theme for Wordpress. Welcome to ‘Satin’.
I have finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.2 from 1.5 which was painless and I am making use of some quality plugins available such as Brians Latest Comments, FlickrRSS and The Feature. Credit to the authors and a thank you for the hard work that went into making those available.
Russell Beattie, the eminent mobile / tech blogger, has sadly hung up his blogging gloves over the weekend. Well informed and articulate, Russell has decided to call it a day and has written his last post on his notebook. He says he hasn’t necessarily gone for good and I certainly hope this to be the case.
Russell was probably the first blog that i started reading and for the last two years have enjoyed ‘hearing’ his thoughts and opinions on the cutting edge of mobile design, ui and technologies (and Yahoo!). While I am sad to see him go I really do want to say thanks for all the effort he put in making it among the first headlines I’d Rojo and even making it to my netvibes homepage (gasp!).
