March 2009
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Vacation
For those of you not following on Facebook or FriendFeed while I was away, you will have missed the pictures I posted. Here they are again, plus a few additional ones.
I didn’t manage to take the Canon DSLR with me on any trips out, since I was taking more video than stills this year. For that, I am using the new Toshiba Camileo P30, which has the distinction of fitting in your pocket...
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Where Am I?
Just got back from a wonderful week skiing in the Alps, as any of you who follow me on Facebook will know. This vacation has seen a shift in the way I record my personal comings and goings for posterity. In the past, I would usually take a laptop with me to enable me to offload pictures and videos from my cameras and do the odd bit of blogging while I am away. Now I take a Belkin card reader...
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Harry Plays Golf
It has been a long time since we took Harry with us when playing golf. We used to do it when we first started but some people behind us once complained that we were spending more time walking the dog than playing golf. We didn’t, it’s just that we were so crap at golf at the time that we took forever to get past the par 5’s and Harry got the blame. Rather than risk the ire of...
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iPhone 3.0
The long-awaited Apple event today was all about the new iPhone OS 3.0, but no news on new hardware :o( Notable new features include: * Cut & paste across all apps (really well-implemented - might even have been worth the wait). Can even copy pictures from album and paste into e-mails * Push notification - at last! Still no background tasks, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing given...