- Happy New Year everyone!!! #
Browsing Posts published in December, 2007
Having a brother in the army who fortunately made it back from his last tour in Afghanistan to be with us at Christmas you can’t help but think of those that didn’t and so when I found this on YouTube I felt I had to post it up.
I know it features Americans, who are probably one of my brothers biggest threats when he goes on tour but if you can look past that and think of those British, American and foreign troops who didn’t or won’t make it for this or any Christmas and remember them.
- I’m planning my new year’s resolutions and to-do list!!! #
- Is a little drunk. #
- Managed a bike ride this morning despite the gale force winds. #
- I’ve taken my Christmas tree decorations down and put my tree in the garden, hopefully it will fare better there. #
- Cooking tea with smoked peppered mackerel and tartare mash and veg. #
- Pleased to see Arsenal back on top
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Well Christmas is over and while I wait to go back to work (as if) I thought I would change things around a little.
After receiving some feedback I have decided to move the Twitter updates off the homepage and onto a separate page, this now means I’m probably going to have to blog a little more 
but should make some of you happy.
The theme has recently changes and so I am still finding little niggle things wrong with it so if you spot anything please let me know.
Thanks!
- I’d be a pirate, yarrrr #
So it is that time of year when everyone gives you their opinion on what was great about 2007 and what to expect in 2008.
Well what was great about 2007 is probably repeated by everyone:
- iPhone
- Vista – yes you may laugh but despite its faults it still made improvements on the desktop market
But rather than predict what may happen in 2008, I would rather just tell you about what I’d like to see in the hope that someone sees this and can make it happen.
A 3G iPhone I think we all know is coming in 2008 but I’d like to see this on more carriers in the UK than just O2 who are the devil incarnate. If this doesn’t happen then I can see a lot more pressure to get iPhones unlocked and portable between networks.
I’d also like to see a new Apple notebook based on similar tablets that are available on the PC side which incorporate touch technology similar to the iPhone. I’ve always fancied a tablet but the only one that I have ever come close to buying was the Toshiba Protégé R400 though that is still a disappointment in certain areas and I now feel only Apple could get it right.
I would also like to stop seeing cases like the current Opera browser against Microsoft. I think Opera need to look in the mirror to work out why they aren’t getting market share rather than trying to jump on a band wagon almost and bash Microsoft. Apple package a browser and in either case it hasn’t done anything to hurt Firefox, maybe it is just because the Opera browser just doesn’t work as well. The only good thing that can come out of this case is to see Microsoft becoming standards compliant, which as a developer I stand right behind Opera on.
I’d seriously like to see the Zune challenge the Apple iPhone next year – at the moment Apple is running away with it and that’s fine, they are great products but a little competition has a nice way of keeping people on the straight and narrow which would be ironic for Microsoft
Oh and finally this -
It is one thing to be ‘thrifty’ but I think it is an entirely different thing when pictures on Sky news make you out to be nothing more than a pack of savage dogs tearing at post-Christmas sales and last seasons left overs.
Then you see on BBC news of three women collapse during sales and you start to wonder what is coming to the world.
I liked the West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson comment:
If you are planning to attend and queue in the future, please ensure that you wear suitable clothing
Some people just don’t seem to think these days.
