Category: Thoughts

  • A Cypriot Adventure

    A couple of weeks ago Kat and I went to Cyprus for a week.Just as we were really getting in to the holiday, something kinda crazy happened. A volcano erupted thousands of miles away in Iceland. 

  • 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.

  • N900 finding its way

    The last week has seen some interesting progress for the n900. Firstly it was great to see phototranslator finally being availiable in extras-devel. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about having lost patience waiting and played with OCR myself.

  • Optical character recognition on the N900

    This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator. 

  • A long overdue refactor

    For the last couple of weeks, my time on Witter has been spent refactoring the code to be more managable. And hopefully allow easier addition of things like multiple account support. 

  • 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.

  • First steps in a new software project

    This week I started a brand new project. This time it’s the start of product development, rather than just an internal project to get something running. And it really is new, so everyone is new and we’re setting up everything from scratch. So this is my list of things to go from nothing to a…

  • Retrospective on an agile project

    Yesterday I finished my 5 week project. I still can’t believe it’s been 5 weeks, it’s gone so fast.I wrote a bit about it a couple of weeks ago. And now that it’s finished I wanted to reflect a little on how it went. 

  • My new Toyota Aygo

    After what felt like a never ending wait, it finally arrived. To be fair to Toyota they always said it was not due until sometime in October. So the fact that I actually got it in the last days of September is nothing to complain about. 

  • 3 strikes out.

    On Saturday I went to London. I was going to have a play with the N900 at the Nokia flagship store on Regent street. Unfortunately they didn’t have one, else this post would be about my hands on time with it. Instead I am given cause to consider switching network provide for my phone.