Thoughts from, and the lives of a Canadian and a Brit living in Southern England.

Tag Archives: iPhone

Dear Steve

Dear Steve, Yesterday we headed down to the opening day of your new store in Festival Place, Basingstoke. First off I have to say that after many years having to either head into London or drive a long way to find an Apple Store it is great having two within a short drive, with you havingContinue Reading

Time Gentlemen Please

At one of my previous employers, in our part of IT you were always well advised to avoid being on out of hours support over the last weekend in March and especially over the last weekend in October, the reason being that these are the clock change weekends, and more often than not one systemContinue Reading

Late to the Party – Windows Phone 7 Series

Yesterday afternoon the internet was buzzing with details of the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series in Barcelona. Only it wasn’t really a launch, it was more a demonstration of a preview version of the platform. It’s predecessor was only launched last autumn, and this pretty well complete rewrite of the Microsoft mobile phoneContinue Reading

DDD8 – Apples, Boots and @blowdart

Today was the eighth annual(ish) gathering of four hundred of the Microsoft Development community for a day of free technical training. Once again it was spectacularly over subscribed – sold out faster than Glastonbury (all the places went within fifteen minutes) and with no Microsoft speakers had the usual mix of sessions, some of whichContinue Reading

The Problem for Nokia

This morning, Robert Scoble, who is currently at LeWeb in Paris published this picture to his Flickr stream. It is a shot taken by him of the audience, and is the answer to a simple request, for people to hold up their iPhone – just take a look at the full sized shot and countContinue Reading