Good evening,

I arrived in London ok, the rest of the train journey was fine, but the tubes were fairly rotten. It should have taken about 40 mins to get from St Pancras to Morden but it took about 1hr 10 mins and then I had to wait flippin ages for a bus. Never mind though I got to my destination, and boy was it a relief. Somehow hills always seem steeper and longer when you have a large load of bags .  I can’t really report on anything too technical at the mo as I don’t have a proper internet connection and if I surf on my phone it’ll cost a fortune. What I can say is that Nintendo, makers of the both famous and infamous Wii console have said they will replace all broken wrist straps with the new thicker safer wrist straps. Also in a special event arranged by Bill Gates, the influential bloggers of the blogosphere met with the worlds richest man at Microsoft hq in Seattle. At this event among other things Mr Gates commented that music copy protection is too confusing for most people. For the full articles go to the BBC site and to the technology section.

Sorry the links are to the articles directly are not there.

Tomorrow we are supposed to be going to get Gran a new TV, which she is adamant on paying for. Little does she know that in about 2 hours the new TV she wants will be en route with my Mother and Father and of course she won’t be paying a penny! Happy Christmas Gran!

Right I’m off now

A

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178611.stm

A report released today says that:

Analysts said that during the middle of next year the number of blogs will level out at about 100 million.

This I don’t think I agree with, yes it might have a lull and yes according to the report, 200 million people have stopped writing blogs but I believe that blogging is only going to get bigger. As the younger generations grow up and today’s toddlers become grunting, moaning teenagers, their lives are filled with technology. With WiFi commonly available now and laptops / desktops getting cheaper buy the day the ease of blogging is becoming more and more apparent. If you ask me, blogging is a force that is only on the increase. You can already blog from your phone/ PDA and when else do you get to put your views forward to a international audience?

Of course the more blogs there are the harder it will be to write a “Good blog” and to keep a regular audience reading your blog. So to do just that people are going to need to learn how to write in an engaging and entertaining way. Surely then you could say that blogging could lead to an increase in literacy skills amongst the younger generation – maybe the government should drive for everyone to blog? I’ll leave that suggestion just hanging there – let me know what you think!     

Ok firstly I cannot believe I just said easy peasy lemon squeezy, I just said it again….. Oh dear.

Now the reason for the post:

I wanted to try to get my new Treo 750v to act as a modem so I can blog when I have no Wifi hotspot or broadband. Well I knew there was a modem link feature in the phone so I put it in “modem” mode and connected it to my laptop. Of course I got windows saying “HEY, I need some drivers” and could I find the drivers? Could I heck. Of course being a geek who thinks he knows everything I did not want to submit to using the technical support on palms website, but after 25 futile mins I had to go over there and see if there were some drivers available. Now it took me a while to find them, but that is more to do with the Palm website and it’s poor design. Once I had found them (they came with an easy guide to installing and configuring the phone) it took no more than 3 mins to have my phone working as a modem and my laptop connected to the internet at speeds of upto 512kbps!! Litterally, it was so easy even my mother could have done it!

It worked perfectly 1st time and now I can be almost anywhere and have an internet connection! Ok it’s only 512kbs (which actually is as fast as my parents internet at home – They need to upgrade) and no I am not going to be playing CS over it or downloading ScobleShow vids etc but it’s enough to download my e-mails and blog to you guys so I am happy!

Yet another reason for you guys to get the awsome Treo 750v

Bye for now

A

UPDATE – I have decided it was not the Palm website that was the reason for it taking a while to find the drivers, it was infact my geekishness that slowed it down. I was looking directly under the Software and Downloads section not the support forums, if I had gone there directly I would have got them in about 1 min – DOH  

Now playing: Yahoo! Broadcast – NASA TV

I stumbled across the Snoopy website today, Snoopy for me was a big part of my childhood and I loved reading the comics and no matter how many times I read a strip it was still funny. It made me think about all the things from my childhood, I can remember so many afternoons sitting there reading the comic strips etc, it made me think how quickly everything moves on. It seems like only yesterday I would get home from school or whatever and I’d be sitting there reading snoopy in dads paper, or just generally doing kid things. Now I get home from wherever and I park myself in front of this silly box, and press these black keys for hours on end. Your childhood is so different, you didn’t have worries, you didn’t have pressure (well not pressure as an adult feels pressure). Life was spontaneous, you could drop whatever you were doing when you wanted and jump onto something completely different. You didn’t have responsibilities or anyone really counting on you. You were free! Now, reading this makes you think doesn’t it, now we have jobs and meaningful roles in society, we have to do things we are expected to do things. Now don’t get me wrong I like being an adult and I love my life (being a geek is really great) but sometimes I just wish I could go back to my childhood, just for a few hours and leave all the pressures of the real world behind. Should any kids be reading this I say this to you, “Don’t grow up too fast, once your childhood is over that’s it it doesn’t come back ENJOY it!!!!” and what they say about your school days being the best of your lives – there’s something to be said for that!

Yeah I know I’m Mr deep and meaningful tonight oh well, don’t worry normal service will be resumed tomorrow! 

Now playing: The Beautiful South – Pockets

Well I don’t know about you but I’d say Russell Crow is the best there!