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  • mel
    If you do, I'd like to know how they like it. I don't know anyone who has one.
  • richard
    Oh wow that's perfect! I'm going to have to get the parents one :)
 

Jul 11
2010

Posted by richard

This is something that I’m really surprised hasn’t been more of a market.

My mother uses this really old mobile phone, a simple Nokia with no frills, barely even a digital display and fairly large buttons (although not too large IMHO). She doesn’t need anything else, as it’s only for emergencies anyway. She can’t see well, and she’s not too tech savvy, so it’s perfect for her.

My father on the other hand, a bit more tech-savvy although still like comparing a four year old with a five year old. He at least knows he can get information on train/plane times on the internet and recently started asking me about phones that do this. He got a Nokia X6 the other day, but today he called me to say it was awful and he couldn’t get on with it.

So my question is, why haven’t these large mobile phone companies, with all their resources, made phones for the aging? Big buttons, less gadgets and stuff on them, perhaps more intelligent voice control or large video displays or at least bigger icons and text? There must be a market for it, as more and more people use mobiles phones on a daily basis, and generally speaking people don’t see as well when they get older, or hear as well etc.,

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Jun 3
2010

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Not a bad job at all on the iPlayer redesign. Currently it’s still in Beta, but I think it’s a real improvement on the one currently there, and that one wasn’t too bad either. Not sure if people not from the UK can see it, but it has sliding panels left/right that you can use to navigate categories.

I suppose that with the news that they’re integrating it all with social media (twitter et al) and allowing other networks’ content to be played on there, they had to do it for ease of use. As good a time as any!

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Oct 2
2009

Posted by richard

This is one of those posts that market something. I’ll be upfront about it, I might get paid. Well, I hope so anyway. I’m not doing this solely to get paid though, I got an email from a website I use, and they had a good idea and I thought I’d lend a hand, so to speak.

The service, Small Rivers, lets people of the same mind talk about the same subject, and link to one another. It’s not quite like a search engine because search engines are blind and bombard you with generalised information. It’s more like a library index where you can look at ideas, subjects, conversations, and decide which one is of interest to you or more like your own areas of interest.

Anyway, I’ve added the little image below to prove I’ve posted about it. In the future I’m going to keep on trying it out, get more into my own blogging.

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    LOL! Right on! In your FACE FOX! Fox news is like a rag mag IMO. It's only good for a laugh, ...
 

Sep 19
2009

Posted by richard

I thought that this was beautiful. Having lived in the US, and having watched Fox News, I know firsthand how biased it is, and often, how wrong it is.

I ran across this on LiveLeak and thought it was worth reposting. It’s about Amsterdam, Fox News (Bill O’Reilly to be precise) blasted the city as a cesspool of corruption, a bad place to bring up kids, etc., A film-maker made this short movie, thought you should see it.

God Bless the freedom of speech.

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    Apparently yes. The deep south, fundamentalist christians etc.,
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    Really? There are still religious people here?
 

Sep 14
2009

Posted by richard

Yes, you’ve heard right. Darwin, that staunch rock upon which all of our biological sciences are based, is too controversial for American audiences. Apparently they’re all too religious and will be offended by Darwin‘s ideas (as though they didn’t already know them), especially in a movie. Surely if they’re offended by them, then they wouldn’t go to see the movie? Anyway, moving on.

So this nation of nearly 300 million people, which houses the dominant pornography industry, can’t stomach a film with major actors in it (and no porn!), that explains how one species might give rise to another. This, despite the fact that it has been proven in many species and you can even see it in action in some instances (butterflies in the UK, finches in the Galapagos).

God help us. Oops, did I just say God? That’s right, Darwin doesn’t say God doesn’t exist. He merely says that God didn’t design and create humans, but rather that He was the impetus for life, and life spawned more life and so on. That seems to be too difficult a concept to imagine for many Americans though.

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    That should be pint not punt.
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    Your filtering a punt or two through your system while thinking this one up Rich? Lol!
 

May 26
2009

Posted by richard

We have been here, in some kind of similar form for what, liberally let’s say five or six million years. That’s not a bad time scale to go from dumbish apes to what we are now, semi-dumbish apes.

So why then, given that they had the run of the world for hundreds of millions of years, were there no intelligent dinosaurs that reached the same kind of intelligence level that we have? Language, culture, building etc. All those hundreds of thousands of species and not one building or construction or sign of intelligence?

Tools for example, did they never even reach that level?

I asked myself this today when I saw the video on the BBC news site of the rooks using tools, and knowing that birds are supposedly the dinosaurs’ descendants, thought that perhaps these last vestiges of great dinosaurs are probably the most intelligent!

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May 10
2009

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About a year ago I really started to use the BBC iPlayer a lot, it was a good tool at the right time (and if they’re not stupid, they’ll keep it free and expand it).

I tried out Channel 4′s 4oD service at the same time and all they had was this download that made me sign all these digital rights certificates, and basically I thought that it was not for me and I stopped installing it.

I went there yesterday and found they’d changed it. Now you can view their programs on their website for free, and only require the software for programs older than 30 days. Good idea, well done Channel 4. You understand where digital media is going, and you’re on the forefront of the expansion.

I wonder though, is this just for the UK? When I was in the US three years ago, the BBC iPlayer wasn’t available for non-UK people, and I always thought that that was a mistake. I know that for example, NBC programming isn’t available for me, but always thought it a shame. Charging people outside a host nation a minute amount for an episode of a program seems fair, and would probably push that media outlet to the top.

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    Your closing statement is actually a good idea. What a cruel joke to play. LOL! I'm glad that there is security ...
 

Apr 18
2009

Posted by richard

For some reason this street must have invisible signs above our houses, with the words emblazoned on top ‘We need religion, please drop by’. For two days in a row now, I’ve had these religious nutters people call by and start in on their spiel about how they’ve been reading the bible and they want to share it with me.

Is there something I can write on my front door to stop them? Would ‘No solicitation’ take care of the matter? I hate being blunt about it but even when you say, ‘I’m not interested thank you’, they then start asking why!

WTF! I said I’m not interested, I don’t need to justify it. For that matter, why would we want this on a Saturday afternoon!? I had the first one yesterday about 1pm. Normally, if I were any other person I’d be at work, so it’s an odd time to call.

Perhaps it’s a practical joke, maybe I offended someone and they called the Mormons and said this guy needs religion? Hmm now there’s a good idea…

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    And, for Sweden to say they're criminal too. That's harsh. Does that mean car manufacturers should be sued or held criminally ...
  • macbros
    It's surprising they didn't win the case due to them exact grounds. Why should they be imprisoned for other peoples actions? ...
 

Apr 17
2009

Posted by richard

So the Pirate Bay boys got convicted and get to spend a year in a Swedish prison. I bet that’ll be a doddle.

Interestingly the judge said that while they insisted they don’t host the pirated files, they -do- facilitate a crime.

Does that mean that that opens a door to people suing gun manufacturers? Or even the telephone company if someone commits fraud over the phone? What about car manufacturers when a bank gets robbed and they speed away in a car?

Oh what devious minds can come up with. I just don’t think that this has ended anything, in fact I think quite the opposite.

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Mar 23
2009

Posted by richard

I couldn’t believe my ears this morning when I heard that Stephen Fry had twittered comparing Jade Goody to Princess Diana. I assume this is re: charitable works, good works in lifetimes etc.,

Let me just say: Stephen, you’re an ass. I think you’re a great actor, but on this topic, you made an ass of yourself.

Princess Diana worked on a myriad of projects because she believed in them, none of which affected her, none of which afflicted her. I suppose you could say she “had” to do them because of who she was, but I suspect she didn’t, she could have sat on her ass all day long drinking gin and tonics and she’d still have been loved by the British public. She didn’t. She poured her heart out into land mine extermination, kids charities, leprosy, and so on, it was seemingly neverending. She put her position to good use.

Jade Goody was a selfish, self-centred bigot. She had cancer and because of that one thing she campaigned for reducing the age of free cervical cancer scans from 25 to 20 (incidentally, it used to be 20, the Labour government increased it). What did she do? Did she actually have a job? I don’t believe she did. She was reality TV star who thought the sun shone out her big arse.

The one thing both of them shared, is that most of us feel sorry for their kids. Other than that, if anyone’s going in the Saint category I think can all agree which one it will be.

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