Going Away for a Few Days

Just posting this (via the mobile) before jetting off to Munich for a few days. Yes Oktoberfest is on, but business calls and you’d be a fool and a communist to think that the Festival being on is just a coincidence. Not looking forward to leaving Vikki and Eilidh at home, but the Mother In […]

Introducing “This Is Mobile”

So here’s a little thing that Vikki and I have been working on. This Is Mobile is a news site that will look at PDA’s and Smartphones (so all the Microsoft, Palm, Symbian, Linux, Java and other devices that are ‘portable,’ but not laptops, okay?). Rather than re-write every single press release that comes out, […]

Mame Controls

The day to day use of your Mame cabinet is going to be through the stick and buttons on the control panel, so you need to spend some time designing it and laying it out. For the moment, consider what games you think you’ll want to play, how many buttons you need to play each […]

Eilidh’s One Year Check Up

From Vikki:
Just back from the hospital - Eilidh’s one year (ok, only six weeks late) appointment with the consultant. Because she’d been very ill when she was born and spent time in special care from four days old, the consultant has been keeping an eye on her development to make sure she isn’t suffering any […]

Links For The Weekend

It’s a quiet day (ie little inspiration apart from trying to build up a head of steam to look at J2ME again), so here are some interesting links from around the web.
Daily Scrabble Challenge.
The Scotsman Newspaper via RSS (thanks for those two Martin).
Denki Blocks for Series 60 phones.
Which Video Game Character Are You? (and I’ll […]

Retro Gaming On The Move

A Game Gear running on the Gameboy Advance? I’m not sure he it’s the best of both worlds, or something the fanboy would have with a venom - but it works and I like it.