Windows Mobile 6.5 Running on HTC from Jesus Diaz on Vimeo. I used to be a heavy Pocket PC / Windows Mobile user till I succumbed to the popular S60 (I had a ton of Nokia phones between 2006-2009) and the iPod touch user interface. But back in the day, friends who used Windows Mobile used to brag ab...

Honeycomb was recently named the "Best Fixed Content Archiving Solution". It's really satisfying to know a product that I and many others worked long and hard to develop is thought of so highly. I raise a glass to the at-large Honeycomb team!...

I was just finishing my breakfast (toast with my Dad's excellent homemade rhubarb and pink grapefruit jam - sounds weird, but works really well) when the phone rang. To my surprise it was the east midland tones of Doug Dickinson that cheerily greeted me. The conversation was fairly brief and to the ...

A few weeks ago I asked whether I should allow my year 6 classes to undertake independent research on Hitler. I was concerned that the independent nature of the task I had set them could lead them to unsavoury web content which they would be unable to evaluate for themselves. The problem was compou...

Yesterday I had an interesting experience. A PR professional from an agency elsewhere in the United States sent me a pitch over email for the blog. It, um, wasn’t a great pitch. The subject line was a bit confusing. She let me know she liked one of my recent blog posts but then copied and past...

I just finished listening to the excellent and highly entertaining web event labeled "Sun's Open Archive Solution" brought to you to Sun's Executive Vice President John Fowler. One thought that really provoked my mind was the notion of customers requesting to keep data forever. Forever is a long tim...

The words “Texas� and “candy� were not two associations I considered before I moved to the Lone Star state. I mean, what in Texas could possibly scream candy? To my surprise, a lot. Texas happens to be the home of many candy companies, and what is even more interesting is that they are smitt...