Harry Potter VI
My brother and his wife seconds after purchasing the latest from JK Rowling at one AM. Six hundred pages await us. Joy!
1 comment July 16th, 2005
Archive for July, 2005
No-click
dontclick.it user interface experiments in click-less interaction. Challenges us to think of new ways of interacting with systems, and shows us how a user-interface without windows might look. In some ways it’s reminicent of the old Windows 1.0 tiled-desktop approach: Contents is always available, but the tiles shrink and grow according to what you focus on.
Add comment July 10th, 2005
ASP.net 2.0 - Plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose
I’ve been safely wrapped up in my little C++ world for a while now, but I’ve had to tweak a few ASP.net web sites in the past year. The problems we’ve had building and testing web sites internally appear to be fixed in the new ASP.net 2.0 release that Microsoft are shipping this fall. But then I read articles like this and I get worried.
The problems and issues Scott outlines contrasts with the simple life in the PHP/MySQL/SMARTY world. Files stay where they are. Compiling happens automatically, but does not litter the hard-disk with mysterious DLLs. Problems are comprehensible and solutions are discoverable.
Could it be that ASP.net is trying too hard to remake the web in Visual Basic’s image?
5 comments July 5th, 2005
Freeze! My New Frozen Phone
Love my new Sony Ericsson K750i, but it locks up at random. While idling (displaying the clock on an otherwise blank screen) it locks up. I wake up the next day and can see when the little CPU gave up the ghost by looking at the display.
I’m going to try to turn Bluetooth off to see if that makes it less flaky.
The phone’s locked up about twice a day so far, and it seems I am not the only one with this problem.
Addendum
Looks like I have the original firmware, so I’m going to try flashing the phone software using their Updating service.
(twenty minutes later)
Everything still seems to work, and the firmware now says R1L002 instead of R1A044 so hopefully it won’t die during the night now…
Add comment July 3rd, 2005