Archive for the ‘Not Code’ Category
The T-Mobile Google G1
So I decided the time had come to get a smartphone. There’s only really two options the way I see it.
In the red corner, the slick-as-you-like, shiny, fashionable, Apple iPhone.
In the blue corner, the open-source, all-your-data-are-belong-to-us, Google G1.
I’ll save the theatrics as you know from the title that I went for the G1. But the pros-cons weighting was a difficult process with many factors. However me being me, the main one and the one that rules them all was price in the end. So lets make this all about the Google G1, and in order to falsely encourage you to thinks it’s great I’ll start with the cons.
Notes on the Culture
It recently found an essay written by Iain M. Banks regarding the society he so often writes about in his Science Fiction novels – the Culture. I found it interesting, as a fan of his books, because the Culture is so appealing.
Anyway to cut a long story short, I liked the essay but the presentation of it was upsettingly difficult to read. So I have produced a version of it myself, with improved markup.
Check it out for yourself: Iain M Banks: Notes on the Culture
The First Post
So, I started using WordPress.
I have tried before, but never felt quite right. This time I braved the learning curve and dived right in.
The problem is that I want to control everything. I don’t know how WordPress was built because I didn’t write it. I don’t know how it’s templating works, because I didn’t write it. So I was wary…
This time I have taken a good look at the templating system, and manage to recreate the simplistic look that I had on my site beforehand. I am confident that I could also put more into as time goes on, but for now I am happy that it works.
So a blog eh? Well, I expect this one will be about code and what I’m currently writing, and my thoughts about it. I tend to write in PHP although innovation’s in other languages also pique my interest. On the last incarnation of this website, I had a link to some useful pieces of code that I had written, so I will create some static pages for those. Not very much, a couple of jQuery plugins, and some older Javascript Utilities that I used to use before jQuery but are pretty good all the same.