Tall Paul's Wiblog

Touch Screen Phones

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:00:01 +0100

I've seen a couple of postings recently talking about whether touch screen really is better than a keyboard for a phone: this one on Nokia Conversations and this one on All About Symbian. It's confirmed my suspicions about my recent purchase of a Samsung i8910 HD.

A Fine Man

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:26:09 +0100

At a time when some people are applauding the actions of the appalling Raoul Moat I was struck by the words of PC David Rathband who was seriously injured by Moat when he was shot in the face and chest as he was sitting in his patrol car. Apparently he may lose the sight in both eyes. In a statement he said:

Minifying

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:02:14 +0100

Today's Word of the Day is "minify" which is, to my surprise, a real word - in American English at least - not one made up by programmers. In general terms it means to make small or smaller but in computer terms it has a more specific meaning: to reduce the size of source to make it load, parse and execute faster.

Wibbling

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:29:40 +0100

As I'm suffering another bloody migraine today¹ and so not getting any useful work done I thought I'd wibble here as I'd not done so for a while. Apologies in advance for any typos. I'll re-read this later and fix.

I'm going though a rather prolonged cluster at the moment, I've lost track but it must be three weeks or more now writing off one of every two or three days. Shrug. Same old, same old.

New Map Software

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:43:29 +0100

After a long struggle the first public release of our mapping application, rewritten to use the Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace server is now online at last. As before it lets you browse the country using Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale maps and both create routes to download for use on your GPS and upload tracks from your GPS to see where you've been.