Category Archives: general
Reasons to be Cheerful
My need to express myself over the recent UK election have led me to bringing this blog out of hiatus … 140 character chunks just won’t cut it. Naturally it won’t make much difference to anyone but the few people who I could probably express all this to over a beer … but that could be said about twitter as well, and that’s never stopped me.
The Power 2010 pledge
I just signed up to the Power 2010 Pledge. As the site says:
They are a people-powered grassroots campaign who are organising for change in the UK. Over 100,000 votes were cast to decide their priorities – and the five most popular are now the basis of the campaign: the POWER Pledge.
The campaign will take these ideas to every candidate from every party at the election – real grassroots change in action.
Recent edits
I recently did some editing work on a couple of short sketches for together.com as part of their 1431 campaign. Obviously I didn’t write them, but I think they’re both pretty funny, and I’m pleased with the work I did. Check ‘em out:
iPhone sim card contacts import
As recently noted, I have finally got around to porting Claire over to my old iPhone (thanks to Dave for keeping me up to date by providing his hand-me-up). This would have been done ages ago, if it weren’t for the fact that Claire’s phone couldn’t sync with her laptop, and I didn’t relish manually typing in all her numbers.
A function missing from itunes/ipods
Ever since I bought my iPhone, my approach to listening to music has been changing. When you have a vast collection of music, and a device with limited storage, you need to find a way of selecting music to go on that device. The approach I’ve taken is to start using the ratings mechanism – anything I’ve rated at 3 stars or over is automatically synced to the phone. I then have a random selection of music from the remainder (minus anything I have rated at 1 or 2 stars).