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Connecting to Bluetooth from Python for Series 60 Nokia phones is actually really easy. It just appears to be voodoo. It all boils down to the Mac’s ability to create arbitrary virtual serial ports and PyS60’s ability to connect to them over bluetooth.
Make sure already paired your phone using the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Otherwise run […]

Since I’m not named after an eastern European country I can’t claim to be a Womble. However, I am now a great uncle to no less than 3 children. Congratulations to Susan and Danny. Jack Maarten was born at 7.47pm on Friday 11th May. I’m sure Samantha is looking forward to having a baby brother.

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Peter Upfold notes how the poorly thought out Digital Millennium Copy Act (DMCA) is continuing to be used to fuck over the consumer. Apparently a DRM manufacturer is suing a number of companies (Apple, Microsoft, etc) for not using their DRM solution. They cite parts of the DMCA that penalise manufacturers for making products that […]

So I love my N95 simply as a successor to my N80. However the GPS has to be one of the killer features of this phone. While I would love to the GPS available in PyS60 I don’t think it’s going to happen. However it seems it is available via Java and C++.
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Big Stu is organising another Web Standards Group meeting in London. This time it’s a Javascript Meetup. Speakers include Chris Heilmann and Steve Faulkner. It’s going to be a good ‘en.

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So, on Saturday Rosemarie and I displayed some of her art at Ealing Art Fair. It was a bit of a nippy day but it turned out nice in the end. Everyone from the Ealing Art Group was really friendly and there was a lot of great work on display.
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My first place in London was a studio flat in Shepherd’s Bush. I say studio flat because it was in fact the living room and kitchen of a 2 bedroom flat that had been converted to include a bathroom. Two other households lived in what would have been the original flat with me. Their studio […]

At the geek dinner on Thursday we met Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services. He was talking about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). S3 provides a very cheap, reliable storage solution. EC2 provides a way to buy computing time and scale up the amount of power within minutes by using […]

Since I’ve had a busy day with my wife, Rosemarie displaying at an Art Show I thought I’d post something silly from work instead of thinking too hard. I love our office.
Neil made a video of The Internet’s Drew McLellan. It’s like wack-a-web standards project member. Oh and Christian has Magic Hands, but anyone who’s […]

I love my Nokia Symbian phones, I had an N80 and then an N95. I tend to use my phone as my primary camera which means it gets a lot on it. I like to sort through these on my Mac because it’s really hard to tell which ones are blurry, even on the N95’s […]

Simon Willison linked to awesome Crabfu Steamworks. I’ve always been a massive fan of the Steam Punk concept. I particularly liked the howto on drawing steam punk. I’m definately going to give this a go soon. If it turns out I might blog it.

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I got Joost invites. If you want one, mail me.

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Got my Wii today. I don’t think I’m going to be very productive for a while. By the time the novelty wears off I’ll have RSI and won’t be able to type anyway. I love Nintendo.

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Not a real post today because I’m too busy:

Writing and sending interview questions for real posts
Looking after my wife who is ill with a severe toothache and needs plenty of love
Playing with my new shiny Nokia N95
Trying to find out who wants Joost invites for when I get an unlimited stack of them
Getting annoyed with […]