Freakcity

“Now you can run your favorite third-party apps — and switch between them instantly — without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily.”

Kinda. Their multitasking is exactly the same as Android’s, except an app is actually ended and its state saved ...

OK, so I’m a fanboy. An ickle teeny bit of a fanboy, but still a fanboy.

New Freakcity, running on my shiny new iPad

=D

Hopefully I’ll be able to show some more of you the new Freakcity soon. Anyone in the Beta Test ...

Back from the deid On Monday, this MacBook was dropped in the bath whilst on. Today it works again. It’s testament to the idea of letting damp electronic devices dry out.

To be honest I wasn’t expecting it to work at al...

Was listening to some H2G2 today and this gem cropped up. Reminded me very much of where we are today...

[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]

“I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me ...

The DEBill is to become the DEAct. Suddenly everyone is indignant that Parliament is not supporting the will of the people and that it must stop. The most ironic thing, however, I’ve seen so far was a tweet saying “go out and vote”.

Why?

Seriously, our representative democracy is a good idea, ...

No, not an iPhone, a proper phone. Nexus One ❤️

It’s really rather stunningly good. Mixed up with a custom kernel and Cyanogen’s mod ( at www.cyanogenmod.com ) so I have V8 running inside of webkit for the browser. Being me, I thought I’d test the hell out of it.

Sunspider results (quicker is be...

Slowly pulling some bits and bobs together again so I can get on with spare time coding (for here! Yay!) and some more useful stuff like photography, camping, etc. Fed up with my life being on hold because I’m in Berlin.

It’s above 0ºc for the first time in weeks today. There’s more snow, making th...

Pick a number between 010203040506 and 494847464544. Give me a pound. If you get the correct number, you can have half of the takings.

If the lottery was billed as this, I don’t think many people would bother, do you?

I may blog later about corrupt politicians (all of them) as naivety is annoying me. For now, make do with a little cassetteboy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QAvkFS_cgk

Watched Coraline in 3d yesterday. The BD I bought comes with 4x 3d glasses. I was most impressed! Nice story too.

Also watch...

Lyrical meanings part 1.

Marlene on the Wall, by Suzanne Vega.

Marlene watches from the wall

Her mocking smile says it all

As she records the rise and fall

Of every soldier passing

Suzanne Vega had a poster of Marlene Dietrich on her wall in her bedroom watching over her “soldiers” con...

My cunning plan to get some of the new freakcity blogging stuff finished has failed spectacularly on account of me discovering I have no internets in Berlin, somehow. So I can’t upload any pics from O’bash or do anything exciting until it’s finished. Bah!

Busy at work, back again this weekend for...

Back in London at a vaguely sensible time on Friday, got to try out my new Taste London card, meaning a meal for two at Smollenskys in Canary Wharf cost a grand total of £23. This made me happy 😁

Spent lots of time on Saturday morning sorting out my expenses as well as making an insurance claim fo...

Headed back for the weekend — arrived at a sensibleish time on Friday night as I got an earlier flight for a change. Arrived at Luton at 5ish and then headed to Shaun’s hotel for a quick drink and to say hello. Told me about his wish to manage the Cambridge hotel, I swear it’s just because of t...

Today it is International talk like a Pirate day, if you were wondering why the website is full of Arrs! and Avasts!

Back in London. Police done, new baby camera bought, expenses not paid (grr!), flights not booked (grr!), sofa bed due at 10:30am still not here (grr!). If all goes to plan I’ll be i...

Sleepy. Work’s chilled out a bit though, which is good. Slowly getting back into some freakcity as well, which is also good. Work on the new blog section is coming along nicely, a sneak preview can be seen here:

freakcity.net/scott/2009/09/

Still got to sort out the comments and stuff. ...

I’m going to authorise a cull of blood sucking insects.
I am also going to authorise a cull of politicians.

Some of you might not notice the difference...

Flew back into London on Friday evening, nice meal at a random Mediterranean restaurant thing then home for lots of sleep. Last week I worked 71 hours, so needed it.
Up at 6, groaning, to get the tube to Stratford for the NXEA train to Norwich. Packed camera/video camera/ipod and bits in my bag a...

Debugging with IE8 is actuall...

After the excitement of the N900 on Friday, this weekend was mostly about chilling out, relaxing, some might even say “chillaxing”. A couple of beers with the guys after work on Friday, then up on Saturday for a bit of shopping. Got some shorts to replace the ones that I broke when moving and some l...

Sun! Then rain! Then Sun! What’s a girl to do?

Forgot to take my washing out of the machine last night so it’s gorgeously sunny a...

Argh!

So I’ve been working hard, doing lots of late nights and stuff, which is why I’ve been quiet of late. I’m also rewriting the blogging stuff on freakcity from scratch which is keeping me busy on the evenings I get home from the office before 10pm. They’re be nicer, SEO friendly and shitl...

Can’t believe it’s Thursday already. Having one of those “blah! too busy” moments in my life right now. So here’s my views on the things that matter right now...

Torchwood: Mostly shit.

New Tardis: looks like it’s made from Lego

Matt’s outfit: looks like he needs tin...

Decided it’d be sensible to inflate my bike tyres and go for a wander by bike, as I hadn’t in ages. Got some pretty decent shots, had a bit more of a play with HDR stuff and discovered that you can now upload more than 60 pictures into a gallery on facebook. All of these things made me quite happy.<...

Put in an offer on a new flat on Friday. Really nice, bigger than my current one, expect news of a moving in party to happen at the weekend. So I shall be living with Liam, all properly married n stuffs. This makes me happy 😊

In other news, did Pride at the weekend, took the requisite ba...