Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

I went along to the unveiling of the LG Secret a couple of week ago — it was the much anticipated global launch — and was interviewed for Korean TV, the Korean Broadcasting System, to be precise.
Among other questions about my thoughts on the mobile industry and the chances of success of the Secret, they […]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked my Mum through how to send a text message, but in the six years that she’s been carrying a mobile phone, she’d never been able to sent an SMS.
Well today … she sent one!!! Amazing.
I’ve handed over the Emporia Life Phone for my Mum to test. […]

We drove coast to coast, across the the USA - and back, about nine years ago.
One of the places we passed through was Arizona, which we loved - very quirky, unexpectedly so.
The weather conditions there are very dry, which makes is a perfect place to store things without the rotting away. This includes planes and […]

This blog has just been moved to another server.
It had got to the point where I’ve been unable to realistically use it as it’s been so slow - to the point where it ground to a halt.
When you shift to a faster machine, it’s interesting how the physical feeling of strain lifts, after having […]

I’ve been looking at a few approaches for displaying photos in Wordpress blogs, for Ventnor Blog and Digital-Lifestyles.
There’s quite a few different approaches and these span Web 1.0 and 2.0. After filtering them down, the ones I’ve found most impressive are

Falbum - which is a Web 1.0 approach, slickly done with next/previous ability. Loads […]

Just to prove that there’s gold in them, thar Browsers, take a look at 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich.
Here’s a sample - How A Guy Became A Millionaire Selling Antenna Balls.

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It’s seeing video like this that makes you glad about the content creation tools that many people have in their hands these days.

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This is one of those picture that you’d have previously found being produced by an industry professional or sitting in an expensive photo library. Great to see people producing such high quality photos manipulations.
Framed! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Given how _massive_ poker is, and that people who play it are obsessed with it. Why has no-one written a client that can be played live on a mobile phone?
There’s just got to be money in that game.
(I really meant to post more often to this (schemes) category, but I’m never near a keyboard when […]

By sheer luck I’ve noticed that today is the fifth birthday for this blog. I’d been adding some entries and happened to glance at the On This Day plugin results. I recognised the entry as one I made near the beginning and sure enough it was _the_ first.
I’ve been posting slight longer in a blog […]