Still here…some observations, remarks and updates

Mark Pilgrim exactly says what I have been thinking about the whole iPhone hype. The only thing he missed is that touchscreens suck in giving back tactile feedback and therefore I personally dislike touchscreens for interfaces. Although this issue might be solved in the future.

In the meantime I bought myself a Nokia E61i , because my old Sony Ericsson was giving my way too much hassle with connections and low battery-life. Until now I’ve been quite happy with the E61i and I’m anxious to play with some Python programming for it. That has to wait though, as I’m in the midst of working on some new WordPress Mu plugins for clients and developing a new version of Simuze based on the Symfony framework, which at the moment costs me more time than anticipated. On a sidenote: the plugins and software I have been developing the last months also needs to get a space on this website and so I’m also working on setting up a new site. Slowly I will get a decent site. Hopefully before the end of this century

It’s not all work and no play.

I’ve started with a new martial art or to be precise five different martial arts. These are all grouped under one vision, so the different arts are more like Lego blocks and build upon each other. The name of it is Takeda Ryu and I really like it.

I bought a Neuros OSD . The process of getting the device was pretty annoying, because of the box-pusher Expansys. I will blog about the whole experience later on, but to make a long story short: DO NOT buy anything at Expansys . They couldn’t care less about you. Their support team seems to consist of robots more annoying than that depressing one in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and more bureacratic hive-minded than the Borg . Luckily, thanks to the very kind support of the Neuros OSD Technology people I now have a working unit, which I plan to use so I can learn a bit of Lua with it.

The next three months I will also participate in a workshop organised by Stifo@Sandberg, which will kickoff with an interesting conference on 2th of november with some rather interesting speakers. As far as I know the conference is free to attend, but you will have to reserve in order to get in.

Now back to work….

Setting up Darwinports, Pear, Apache2, PHP5, MySQL5 and Symfony on OS X ‘Tiger’

Ok, the title is a bit long, but hopefully people looking for more information about it will have an easier time finding these notes than if I had used the title: “Installing geek stuff”

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