Category: Gadgets

  • Why my next smartphone will probably be running Android – confessions of a Nokia fanboy

    It’s no secret I am a huge fan of Nokia phones. Every mobile I’ve ever owned has been a Nokia, for over a decade no other manufacturer has come close when I’ve looked for my next phone.

  • Asrock ion 330 mythtv setup

    For a little over 6 years I’ve had my tv connected to a pc running MythTV. It’s really cool, and I could never go back to watching regular live tv. 

  • Nokia FAIL

    I’ll start this post by pointing out that I am a Nokia fanboy. I love Nokia devices. I’ve only ever owned Nokia phones, and it is no secret how much I love my Nokia internet tablets. But boy are Nokia frustrating.

  • Witter – a basic python twitter client for Maemo

    So I wrote last week about developing a basic twitter client. And this week I got the main stuff done, and wanted to share the code example here. 

  • Nokia N900 announced at last.

    Nokia N900 announced at last.

    Last year I wrote about my disturbing Nokia obsession. I had realised that I had become a Nokia fanboy, almost without noticing. I’ve always had Nokia phones, and they’ve always in my mind been better than the competition. A couple of years ago I found myself with a Nokia 770 internet tablet.

  • Riding with the n810

    I mentioned previously that I was learning to ride a bike, trying to get to a standard good enough to ride on roads. Well I think I’m there, and yesterday I made the journey to work and back. On the way back I decided to run maemo mapper on my n810. And have it store…

  • New tools!

    At the weekend I took a trip to John Davis Woodturning This was my first time in a real wood turning shop/workshop rather than just browsing items on line. It was very cool, nice to be able to actually see the various tools and get a proper feel for them. 

  • Work around computers? Or have them work around you?

    I’ve been thinking recently about the way my computer use has changed over the years as technology has progressed.

  • Participating in OSS

    Fairly recently I went through the process of being allowed to participate in an open source project ‘Navit’Working for a big company I have to just make sure there are no potential contamination issues. Very boring, but done now.

  • My disturbing Nokia obsession

    I find that the extent to which I’m becoming a Nokia fan-boy getting worse as the years progress. In the beginning I just found they made the best quality mobile phones hands down.