http://davidcarrington.co.uk A personal weblog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:35:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just ordered an HTC Diamond, with delivery expected on Thursday. This will be my third HTC handset. It has the speed advantage of the first (HTC BlueAngel) and the size / style advantage of the second (HTC Touch). Combined together it makes one awesome phone! What to do with the old ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/07/22/my-third-htc-phone/ Over the last few days, I've been interested in various methods that I might get my hands on a new HTC Diamond phone. Each option has it's ups and downs, but ultimately leaves me spending £150-400 for a phone that only does a fraction more than my existing HTC Touch ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/07/17/i-love-mobile-dat/ I fairly despise the Orange website for a number of reasons: loading screens, endless "sorry, an error occurred but we're aware of it" links, and now a fairly useless new feature: usage since your last bill. With all the talk of "Unlimited" features (texts and now data too), what I really ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/07/08/orange-new-feature-usage-since-your-last-bill/ Orange have seen the light! they've updated a bunch of their pay monthly plans to include 500Mb of data transfer. This is great for me and other Orange customers, as the existing bundles were terrible (£5/month for unlimited off peak, £8/month for 30Mb anytime). Special thanks goes to Krystal at SMS ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/07/07/new-500mb-data-plan-on-orange/ BBC News had an article on the UK government opening up a bunch of data for developers to play with the other day. I think it's a real flaw in what's most likely their article/linking policy that the actual link to the data is hidden on the right under the ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/07/04/uk-government-data-for-mashups/ I've been playing Rohan quite a bit lately. I started the year by playing RF Online quite a lot, but switched (with many others) in order to avoid the unstable servers at the time. Waking up to test the game at it's exact release time of 4am in the UK ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/07/03/here-be-dragons/ A 728-ton stabilising ball The Phoenix lander has "convinced" scientists of ice on Mars - still not actually confirmed. A film about a guy that always responds "yes", with Jim Carrey: Yes Man Pityriasis rosea - an oval shaped rash 401? 301? 501? - HTTP status codes Real time shadows in Blender Site Identification Button in ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2008/06/23/discussed-today-23rd-june-2008/ Bryan Person heard about it from Marketing Over Coffee and thinks it's a good idea, as do his two commenters. Bill Deys wrote about it too. Scoble refuses to not do it: "My link blog is for keeping what I think are the most important RSS items of the day, including mine." The ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2007/12/28/should-you-share-your-own-blog-with-shared-items/ I've used Google Reader for ages, and I've been using GTalk with Nick for ages. Annoyingly, Reader flat-out refuses to let me add Nick as a friend to see his shared items in the new interface. Since then, I've managed to add Scoble and Chris F. Masse, but still no Nick! ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2007/12/28/wheres-nick/ Google Reader has become slightly more social lately with the addition of recommended feeds. I've just come across another tweak to the interface which helps a bit with the social aspect: a Shared Items improvement. The screenshot above shows that not only did Scoble share the feed item in question, but ... http://davidcarrington.co.uk/2007/12/06/google-reader-shared-items-become-more-social/