Google have taken another step towards total world domination through the introduction of their new mobile phone OS. With the recent spate of Apple's lack of consistency with regard to what is and what isn't allowed on the App Store swiftly followed by extension of the developer non-disclosure agreement to stop folk publishing their rejection letters, maybe Android is the way to go?
Whilst I mull this over I think I'll have a play with the HTC Android emulator:
I've been using Google's RSS Reader recently to organise some of the stuff that I regularly look at on the wubbleyou wubbleyou wubbleyou. I'm using Google Reader to manage my subscriptions but exporting the OPML file so that I can use the Newsstand iPhone app to read when I've got a few minutes to spare. It seems to be working well.
I've exported some of my 'blogrolls' over there on the right. I can change what appears on this site by simply changing the tags on the Google Reader app.
Just come across a great package on Ubuntu. sl stands for Steam Locomotive and if you type sl instead of ls you get an animated steam train flying across your screen.
Some people have too much time on their hands and long may it last!!
Package details can be found here:
I'm using Screen a lot these days. It's something that I used to use at Aber all those years ago to create virtual tty's when we only had a single screen to use. These days I use it to "background" my sessions so that things can run in the background and I can easily re-connect to my session at a later date.
Several places I've worked have, for various reasons, blocked access to Microsoft Messenger and other chat protocols. For various reasons of my own I want to use Messenger and therefore have various methods for accessing the service.
My latest way of doing things is to run a Bitlbee daemon that presents various chat protocols, including Messenger, as irc channels. This means that I can connect using a terminal irc client, accessible via ssh.
My neighbour's just bought himself an iPod touch. Wow! It's a lovely piece of kit. Paired up with a wireless connection it does a lovely job of displaying the BBC's iPlayer content. Very impressive. One day when the iPhone has 3G+ data speeds I may be tempted..