A Little Autumn Cleaning

There's not been much here lately. Time to change that.

Posted 22nd October 2011 in Life, and Flying, with 0 comments

Good Hardware

It generally takes a lot to get me to really like a piece of hardware, thoroughly. For example, my experience of Fujitsu-Siemens' customer service was nothing but excellent, but the only reason I had so much contact with them was that my laptop's inverter went three times (to their credit, it's been fine for the past two years or so now, and my brother is still happily using it, but that laptop still sheds screws at the rate of around one a year).

However, a bit over a year ago, I decided to invest in some bluetooth headphones, and picked a pair of Jabra BT620s (warning: flash music thingy) semi-randomly from the field of available devices. A year later, and I can honestly say they're one of the better things I've bought this decade.

Posted 15th December 2008 in Life, and Maemo, with 0 comments

New Phones, Solving Old Problems

I've always not been one for phones; for years, I had a (relatively) old Nokia 6100. It does the job of phone calls and SMS messaging very well, and lasts absolutely ages on a single charge.

At the beginning of the year, though, I wanted 3G connectivity for my PDA and laptop (yes, I have a whole range of portable devices, and every one has its use, although not necessarily simultaneously), and so liberated a Nokia 6280 from eBay. The 6280 was pretty good - long battery life, a WAP browser, and that all-important connectivity. However, when its screen broke last week, and replacement LCDs were not too cheap, I went back to eBay with two rules: it had to be under £60, and should fit the two 6280 batteries and umpteen small Nokia chargers I have (the Internet Tablets use them too).

Posted 28th November 2008 in General, and Life, with 2 comments

Over The Hills And Far Away

For the next two weeks or so I'm helping Martin Smith do his Land's End to John O'Groats trip, and so I'll only have slow internets to communicate from. Still, you can read about our travels at the new, shiny, lejog blog.

Posted 12th August 2008 in Life, with 0 comments

BarCamp Brighton

In the vain hope of making this slightly more blog-like, you people get a dose of my daily life for a change.

Posted 8th August 2007 in General, and Life, with 0 comments