Musings of a Software Engineer

I think I probably need to get out more, two posts about cash machines.
We were out in London a couple of weeks ago and had got to that point of the day needing some more money.  So you would like trying to find a cash machine would be simple.  Well if you know the area [...]

Wow its like buses I don’t post for two weeks and then two come along at once.  There might even be three if I have to rant again about spam comments on blogs (yes I’m still getting hundreds a day!).
Anyway…. user interfaces, it seems to be a thing that computer scientists are not very good [...]

Wow its been a long time since I wrote something.  My plan was to attempt to write a post every day!!! Seems like that idea has gone out of the window.  Its amazing how time seems to fly by then its the summer months and time to do postings just do not seem to happen [...]

Its amazing the number of anniversaries are happening this year.  There must be something in the water every time we reach the end of a decade!  There are a number of obvious anniversaries that are happening and some not so obvious.  Below is my list of anniversaries that are happening this year:
Windows Live Messenger (MSN [...]

Wow its amazing how time has flown by over the last couple of weeks, it does not seem that long ago that I was writing about ringtones.  Its been a busy couple of weeks due to one thing and another and I’ve not had chance to get back to the blog to write anything.  So [...]

After abit of hunting around the internet I found a really good post that explained how to create ringtones with music that already exists within iTunes.  Since it would normally cost to buy a ringtone from Apple its a nice idea to be able to take music that you already have and create a ringtone [...]

Out of chance I found OpenTTD yesterday which is an open source implementation of Transport Tycoon deluxe, probably one of the best games that has been made for the PC.  Its quite sad actually because I also found out today that TTDX was first released in 1996!
OpenTTD is not just an open source version of [...]

Apple have tied down the iPhone meaning that no other software can be installed onto the device without it being approved by the Apple team and therefore means that some things are never going to get the ok.  This to me seems to be abit of a monolopy over the iPhone / iPod ranges by [...]

On my way home from the pub last night I had wireless enabled on my phone and was shocked that in the short distance between the pub and my house there was 3 unsecure wireless networks.  It certainly surprised me of the number of wireless networks that were on my way home probably around a [...]

After purchasing the iPhone I have been abit disappointed by the lack of 3G receiption that I’ve been getting when being out and about with it.  Well as if by some devine wind I was reading the register today and they had an article about ofcom publishing maps of 3G covered and I have to [...]