Rob’s Digital Life

Now this guy Allen Stanford has been arrested I bet World Finance magazine is frantically working on getting the next issue of the magazine out a little quicker than normal.

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I’ve been playing with the two main connection managers for S60, Psiloc Connect and Birdsteps Connect. The idea of these apps is that they manage the connection your apps use, for example when at home they will prefer the faster wi-fi, but when there’s no wi-fi i.e. when you’re out and about, they switch to [...]

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We’re off on vacation soon and the kids have decided they now like the kite that was bought for them as a present.The kite which was a present is a single line kite and pretty boring once it’s flying. So I’ve picked up a wing style sports kite from Symphony, it’s 1.2m’s wide and has [...]

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Blognation wrote a post entitled Lose Customer Trust in One Easy Step: Volkswagen Demonstrates here
I don’t think that they made it clear what the actual problem was and just sensationalized the story by saying it was VW, when it wasn’t, it was his local dealership.
Anyway I left them the following comment trying to explain where I think they [...]

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I’m sorry Robert, but you’ve just become like any other tech blogger out there.
I think you’ve lost the usp that made me want to read your blog. You blog had weight when you were at MS, I don’t think it has the same ‘weight’ now.
When you were at Microsoft it was really cool to see [...]

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The new Samsung barcode reading microwave went bang..it’s going back.

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Back home at the weekend it’s been a busy week as we’re negotiating a contract clause with a partner. It was down to London Thursday and then over to Paris Thursday evening via Eurostar and then a BA flight back to Manchester on Friday evening.
Friday was just too hectic, a partner kick off meeting for [...]

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Slightly off topic maybe, but it’s a smart oven nonetheless. It’s got a barcode reader on it and it can read the cooking instructions from the food itself and work out what program is required.
Can’t wait to see the barcode genetically grown in to potatoes and we’ll be away.
The serious side to this is the [...]

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Back at work today.
Hundreds of emails which took me all day to plough through.
Managed to catch up on bloglines too.
Now I’m feeling a bit more connected and in-touch since the christmas break.
I’ve been thinking about a blog overhaul, I’m still making notes, but you may see some changes here over the next few weeks.

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Happy New Year.
The blogging clock now ticks over to two and a half years

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Finished work yesterday for just over two weeks. Horah.
I had 18 days let so I needed to use a few up.

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Here’s some pic’s of the grand opening of the Apple Store at the Trafford Centre.
Technorati Tags: Apple, Trafford+Centre

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Scobleizer visit’s Cardiff which is my home town and says "Cardiff is a delightful town"

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I had a conf call with the AT&T at&t team running a withdrawal project and they were using brand new power point sheets with the new logo already.
They are getting their priorities in order obviously

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It was my birthday at the weekend. Had some nice food. some pics to be uploaded to flickr

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