How to win the "not really a headline" award
"William beats Kate in boat race." The Guardian. My life really was incomplete not knowing that.
Tag: fail
Nokia failed the N-Gage vision, but is it a portent for Ovi?
The announcement from Finland that the N-Gage service will be canned at the end of September 2010, with no more effort placed into the ecosystem by Nokia, gave some tech blogs an open goal for some humour, but also points out a big problem that Nokia have. N-Gage, both in it’s hardware iteration and it’s Software and Services iteration have been great ideas. It’s fair to say that the original mobile gaming vision in 2003 was a good four or five years ahead of the pack, with online gaming, connected community and software downloaded over the internet (although perhaps that
The Sidekick, Data in the Cloud, and Practical Advice
News that Microsoft subsidiary Danger has pretty much lost all the cloud data for users of Sidekick phones is pretty shocking to those who are promoting “the cloud” as a good place to do online work. I’ve posted an editorial over on All About Symbian: What’s going to be more worrying for the industry as a whole is the damage that this will do to the idea of cloud computing, the idea that your data is safe, the goal of just moving everything online (such as Google Apps) and running your corporate email and document storage there is a noble
Twitter Dies During Eurovision Semi-Final
This would never happen during the Superbowl (audience around 97 million), but 300 million Europeans watching Eurovision? Fail. Update: From the twitter status site: “We are currently working through an unplanned outage of the site. We will update as we learn more.” Guys you better get extra servers in for Saturday – the Eurovision final is gonna light Twitter up big time – the semi finals are only the apertif!
A Little Bit of GTD Tech For The Weekend?
Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted an article that talks about how I use GTD with the modern S60 smartphone. This was a question I was asked thanks to the 5800 video diary series that is now addressed in a full article. The short answer is, I don’t. The S60 derived phones have an absolutely hopeless To-Do/List system in the calendaring application, and the regular calendar/agenda functions are poor at best. As readers here (and party go-ers in SXSW) will know, I’m a big Filofax fan. It’s disappointing when paper and pencil outgun silicon, and it’s made even more
Separating Maths From Fiction
I have to really agree with the sentiments expressed in this BBC Magazine article, The Sum of Human Emotions. My problem was the exact opposite: I was being asked to solve question of the type: "When Fred is half as old as Emily was when Arthur was born, how many dogs does it take to change a light bulb in three days?" Write it as algebra, and I could solve it at the drop of a hat. But I was having real problems turning the social story into symbols. One of the biggest problems that I had in Maths was
