Queen Elizabeth once commented a certain year was ‘annus horribilis’. Well for me 2011 it was one, changing jobs in difficult circumstances and not a stable home front. In the first half of the year, I was trying to increase…
Dear Galaxy (SII) autocorrect
Autocorrect fails. When I type “issit”, I don’t want “oddity”. When I type “lah”, I don’t want “lag”. When I type “liddat”, I don’t want “Lidar”. When I type “simi”, I don’t want “SIMI”. When I type “knn”, I don’t…
2011 The year in pictures.
The first picture will make click through the rest. The rest is here. Part 1, Part 2
National Geographic Photo Contest result 2011
The results are out for the annual National Geographic photo contest. As usual very moving pictures. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/winners-of-the-national-geographic-photo-contest-2011/100211/
Eurozone pain
This is a very simple way article on the Eurozone woes. Click on the link for the rest of the article and the 230 comments at time of writing. Eurozone crisis: We’re all dooomed! Here’s why By Tim Worstall •…
Car air-con
Dead blower fan means no air-con
A magazine is an iPad that doesn’t work
Baby with magazine or is it an iPad? video
EOF EOF
This is turning to be a very bad October 2011. First Steve Jobs passed away on 5th October and now Dennis Ritchie, yes that man, pioneer of C and Unix has passed away. RIP to the giants. link
Steve Jobs has passed away
Thank you for turning the mobile phone industry upside down and giving the telcos a sharp kick in the behind. link
Moved from “Connecting People” to the green man.
After waiting for close to 3 months and tracking the weekly deals, today 1 Oct 11, the Samsung Galaxy SII phone price dropped $80 from $348 to $268. I dashed over after dropping off the kids to get my paws on…