Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 09:51AM Taking of good links, which we were, Simon put me on to this:
They are little gadgets that you can load into your phone. A bit like the lovely PopFly, but for your mobile device. You can create and download gadgets into your phone, and the user interface is very neat.
They are written in Java, but I can live with that and they seem to work OK on my Smartphhone.
Link Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 08:51PM Zoe put me on to these. This is my favourite one.
Link Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 10:32PM Well, I got my parcel, and it contained just what I wanted, another gadget. I'll let you know what I think of it when I've got around to playing with it properly.
Oh, and I've had this idea for a film. It is about a young man who is injured in a freak bowling accident which leaves him with one leg shorter than the other. Fortunately, the pretty young assistant at the bowling alley finds his leaning gait rather attractive, and in the interval between the accident and him getting pioneering surgery to level off his walk they fall in love and get married. I'm going to call the film "While you were sloping".
Thank you. And good night.
Life Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 09:22AM Some time ago I mentioned WebGuide. This is a wonderful tool for Windows Media Centre that lets you share your media all round the house, and indeed the world.
It seems that somebody in Redmond reads my blog (Hi, Bill!) because Microsoft have recently hired Doug Berret, the man who wrote the program, and will be making it part of future versions of Media Centre. This is great news, except for the fact that I bought mine (for the princely sum of ten pounds).
Then again, I did earn some money writing about it for Windows Vista magazine, so I guess we are about square on this.
My media PC is well past half way to paying for itself at the moment. Earlier this year we realised that the only bit of Sky+ that we actually used was the "record all EastEnders episodes" facility for number one wife. So we dumped it and got a Media Center PC which does the same thing and also lets me make DVDs of Shaun the Sheep, at a saving of 36 pounds a month.
Monday, September 17, 2007 at 10:52PM When I was 11 my parents bought me a new bike. This was a big thing to me. We went into Halfords in Lincoln to order it. It was a BSA Bermuda in red and blue and it had white wall tyres and a Sturmey-Archer three speed. It cost all of eighteen pounds. (I sold it some years later, also for 18 pounds and bought a Solarvox stereo amplifier,but that is another story). Anyhoo, I got so excited that I made myself ill waiting for it to turn up. When the great day came I got up from my self inflicted sickbed and rode it around outside in my pyjamas.
I've always been like this with stuff arriving. Today I was all excited about a delivery that the UPS website had confidently announced would occur today. I worked from home specially to receive this magical package. Well, the delivery occurred today all right. But not at my house. Imagine my surprise and delight when the tracking website informed me that an attempt had been made to deliver the parcel to my home, where I was sitting waiting, and that apparently I wasn't in. I checked the mirror to make sure it was me, looked outside at the house number to make sure I was in the right place, and then rang UPS.
They have this clever voice response thing where you read our your tracking number and it tells you what you already know, without giving an obvious way to talk to a person. So I just said "chicken chicken chicken" instead of any numbers and after a while it put me through to a human who has hopefully sorted it out.
Although I'll believe it when I see it.
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