Team Building with Donuts

Went out with the UK Imagine Cup team this evening. Good food, good company, good stuff.

"The Seedlings": James Alexander, Matthew Steele, Matthew Steeples and their mentor Robert Hogg.

Then back to work for some finishing touches.

Donut powered programming....

Oooh. Nice sunset over Heathrow

We get up at 5:00 am tomorrow. Wish us luck....

Wonderphone

Well, I'm sitting at the Crowne Plaza in Heathrow typing on the teeny tiny keyboard on the teeny tiny machine and marveling at my little Smartphone. It is the best phone I've ever had (of course it should be, it is also the newest phone I've ever had - but I have been known to go backwards)

It can make phone calls, send sms, send mms, send email, receive active push email (like a Blackberry, but better). It has two movies and season one of Spaced on it, along with several hundred music tracks. I can browse the web, get maps, send pictures to Flickr, all kinds of stuff. In short it is pretty much everything I want in a mobile device.

As I write this it is providing a very useable Internet connection which just worked. Just worked! When I recall the grief I used to have trying to get on line with my phone I just can't believe how easy it was. Vista and Windows Mobile 6.0 really do get on well in this respect. I've had three hours of high quality music on the train on the way here too.

It is the HTC S710. And it rocks.

Very posh hotel room desk. But Internet at eight pounds an hour? I don't think so...

Travel Essentials

I'm setting off for Korea later today. So it was off to Cottingham to get a few travel essentials.

One of these items is not going to Korea....

Packing for Seoul

Today I've had to start packing for my next trip. I feel a bit like Alan Whicker with all this globe trotting. Anyhoo, tomorrow I start out for the Imagine Cup World Finals in South Korea. I always pack at the last possible minute, and this time is no exception. So it was out with Ye Olde suitcase (unfortunately it is the one that likes going off on its own) and in with the contents of various draws. Of course all the big problems were with which power supplies and mains adapters to take...

I am of course taking the big camera, and the little camera, and a piece of paper and a crayon (maybe not the last one) and so there will be pictures......

Boggled

Number one daughter got me an uber-Boggle for my birthday. It does 5x5 puzzles. Wonderful.

How many words can you make?