blogitech from Chris Maddern

It was once famously said that ‘everything that could be invented, had been invented’.

I found this idea to be ridiculous and we have since proved it to be so; this was over a hundred years ago I believe. However, if this were ever to come close to having a believer, it could be me and it could be in reaction to an article I read on engadget this morning!

It seems that LG aren’t happy with skin merely covering our entire body, it must now cover every object we own as well. I have no idea how that idea got incubated and passed around; it must have come up at a board meeting and everyone thought that ‘everyone else’ was in on the joke so went along as not to look stupid. It wasn’t until production had begun that they realised that old Paul had genuinely been suggesting that they produce a device that actually invokes a feeling of not wanting to touch something that is essentially a ‘touch-operated’ device.

Did I forget to mention that every single one of them was also high.

I think that’s all there is to say on the matter, except, please don’t release it; your phones are bad enough.

Chris

Like many students, I got given free hosting by Microsoft under their ‘dreamspark’ initiative. It’s a great idea, but the service is unfortunately so crippled that all it did was encourage me to go and hire a linux server and a domain! :s.

It will only execute ASP.NET code from the main folder, getting a CMS to run on it (ASP.NET CMSs are already fairly rare and delicate) is next to impossible and database configuration & any statistics monitoring is impossible.

I will continue to use it to test out ASP.NET development and Silverlight, but if you actually want anyone but you to see any of it then you’re almost certainly going to have to shell out for some professional hosting. Anyhow, this is the road that has led me to Wordpress, and glad I am of that too! In just a few short hours this is all up and running and ready to splurge my thoughts out upon the world.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the free hosting and the idea is great; Microsoft’s recent attention to students is fantastic however in this particular case, don’t expect to actually use the page for anything but testing!

Chris