Little and Often
I really do mean to do this more often. I have a few posts in the works regarding a number of random subjects. I wanted to catalogue my experiences at university but I don’t really have much strength with the written word and thus it became long winded and less of an account and more of a disjointed jumble of words. So that may need work. Perhaps I need to try a more Star Trek style log taking form. Speaking being more my thing, when I can get the words out.
So here is a bullet pointed list of my opinions on current (ish) events or things I have had my eye on.
- Notw Hacking Scandal: Wasn’t surprised, still disgusted, feel that as a software engineer there must be an effort put in to improve security on mobile phones (generally).
- G+ vs Facebook: What? Get serious. Google is trying this for what, the fourth time? It was in Google’s best interest to get in bed with Facebook but instead they are burning bridges. We all know why they want a social network, increased traceability and understanding of how their users use the web. It’ll improve their ability to target ad words making them more valuable. Imagine the profit in being able to present people with adverts about things their friends like near to their birthdays for instance. Huge! FB has the right idea with this, they follow the base law of hacking, don’t re-invent the wheel. Bringing skype video chat to fb was a good move, saves them time and effort and allows them to make use of an already tried and tested video chat service. I’ve heard rumors they are working with other companies on more features, the whole social network infrastructure speech from Z seemed like they have real vision.
- Google Anti-Trust: I think that’ll blow over eventually, I doubt it’ll end with anything substantial.
- NASA Space Shuttle: Sad, it always sucks to see the space programs suffer. Space is cool!
- Lion: Can’t say I like the Mac OS generally but seems to have some friends excited. I suppose if I ever get around to making the iPhone app I have planned I’ll get to know it a little better. I still wish they would do an amazon ec2 style cloud based development environment I can work in rather than having to get a Mac. I’m happy to get a developer licence too, I just have no use for the overly expensive machine and have no desire to build a hackintosh. That’s just silly. I do have to say this about Apple, they are bang on the money when it comes to customer service. So they should be, considering the price consumers pay.
- iPhone OS 5: Cool.
- Android OS 3: Cooler.
- Gnome 3: Meh, dual screen support is a must in a *new* window manager.
- Unity: Crap
- Spotify Premium on my iPhone: fun and useful!
- Asus EEE Transformer: Want!
- Java 7: Scary. Java is temperamental enough.
- Google Make Over: Pretty, tend to use their services through 3rd parties anyway.
Think that’s it, that was easy.
