I’m currently investigating development tools for the iPhone that will also allow me to re-target the same “code-base” that makes the application to Android mobile phones like the Motorola Droid, Google Nexus One or HTC Magic (e.g.). To that end, I tried out phonegap by nitobi (I think that’s a real company :-/), but didn’t like that the end product is essentially just html with a few extras. One thing that is good about phonegap, though, is that you (by which I mean “I”) can add functionality easily as it is “open-source” and can be modified without fear of repercussions from copyright folk.

It would seem that complaints are still coming in about supposed “anti-competitive behaviour” on Microsoft’s part. The latest allegations are in relation to their OEM Ready and Velocity marketing campaigns. As Steve Ballmer (MS' CEO) stated in July as a foundation to the marketing campaigns: You can take the same laptop, oftentimes, and pre-configure it one way and you can get almost instantaneous boot, and fantastic battery life … If you pre-configure it with software in another way you get long boots, and much less battery life.

So, I finally joined the “dark side”, and had my new shiny Mac Mini arrive via DHL this afternoon. It’s a funky lil machine, and much quieter than my Desktop PC with it’s many cooling fans and über-powerful nVidia GeForce 8800GTS graphical card. The mini was very simple to set up and I was up-and-running within 15 minutes. The longest time was waiting for the Mac to configure itself and update the software after the first boot.

OK, put your teeth back in, and consider this. DoubleClick are serving up adverts on The Register’s site, specifically on a Linux/IBM-related page, claiming the following: Microsoft – committed to open source Microsoft’s open source project hosting site is CodePlex. View the video for a quick tour of the site and see what’s what with Microsoft’s commitment to open source. Clicking on the text takes you to youtube to view the video that I’ve posted below.

My Dad sent me this link to the Movement for Active Democracy website. Below is my response to my Dad explaining my own views. I got to the fourth video and couldn’t will myself to go any further. What he says souds idealistic, but implementing it would be somewhat harder than he seems to think. Also, I think I disagree with his premise that the public has no say as it stands at the moment.

I’m currently working on getting OAuth and OpenID working on my blog so that I can use my URL as my identity to be used for logging into websites such as Facebook or Twitter. Both of these sites along with numerous others allow you to use your login from another website to authenticate yourself with their services. This means that I can have all my social network profiles using one URL to verify my presence via.