Mini-lob's Genesis
Now that I actually have a domain with meaning (of sorts), I’m going to do some tidying up. Guess what that means! Not only will this site track my progress to becoming the world’s greatest l33test Linux user, but it will also cover my adventures as I foray into the jungle of HTML!
I got some funky tables up on the front page (I had to read up on how to do tables… I have catching up to do, methinks…), as it seems everyone uses them these days. A friend of mine just showed me what he rustled up in five minutes, and I was more than impressed. Of course, this may have also been due to the incredible background he produced.
You may have also noticed a lobster about the place. It took me the greater part of an hour in Paint Shop Pro last night to produce, and I call him mini-lob. All hail painting by pixels! I like him, he adds something I like to call funk to the site.
At the moment I’m breaking from doing a transcript. I have to listen to half an hour of my Systems Analysis group and I questioning a gentleman from Heathrow Airport. Well, he doesn’t actually work there, but he is pretending to for the sake of evaluating our interview technique. It’s hard work listening to yourself, especially when you haven’t heard what your own voice sounds like in a while.
Something that has been interesting me lately is mobile phone technology. Recently, it seems to be moving in leaps and bounds. My previous phone was a Nokia 3330, whose greatest features were voice dialing and WAP access. I never really considered it any different from a normal home phone, it wasn’t particularly special. Then, I decide to get a new contract phone this year, and so I do some research into the latest handsets… I was amazed at how far they had come in less than 12 months. There were a multitude of handsets offering colour screens, bluetooth and infra-red connectivity, built in cameras, FM radio, MP3 players, etc. All things on their own, again nothing special, but when stuck into a tiny phone.. This is the kind of thing we saw in science fiction not long ago.
I don’t usually consider myself to be someone who looses track of technology, but if I don’t keep an eye on these things, they’ll be compiling kernels in no time. My new phone is a Sony Ericsson T300. Very retro, in a cleanly designed, no-nonsense but stylish manner. Which suited me fine. There was a camera attachment available, but it was over �100, and if I wanted to spend that much on a digital camera I would get a proper one. I’ve been having great fun with the imaging however, by using the infra-red port on my laptop to send over images to customise my phone with. I want pictures of everyone in my phone book, because it shows them when they try to call. Very cool.
I’m hoping 3G will come around by the time I want a new phone next year, as they should be snazzy, if promises from phone companies are anything to go by (yeah…).