Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003

West Wing quotes: A site full of good West Wing quotes.

WAP is dead. Not. Russell reflects on WAP. As he rightly points out, WAP's death has been greatly overhyped in the past year or so. It hasn't died - but it certainly is in hiding. Notice how TV-adverts on "All things mobile"® aren't using the WAP-word anymore. Russell mentions the Vodafone-Live applications and looking at the current TV-spots for Vodafone you'll see that the emphasis has moved from technology "We have a great WAP service" to actually explaining what the applications are. Also notice how all the discussions on why WAP sucks seem to have "gone away". A sure sign this sort of stuff is mainstream now.  Expect more of this as WAP is expanded on with the newer phones that support XHTML. Don't expect to see any mention of the fact in the ads though. In a couple of years nobody will even know (or more importantly - care) what technology is bringing them their mobile news and views.

Going Logo? Looking for something that will get Christopher interested in programming - so he doesn't spend his time just playing games. I thought perhaps Logo or something similar would be a good start (I learnt Logo back in school in 1982 or so). But I don't know if any good Windows based Logo versions are available. I'll go and take a look.

Hot stuff: I made some Chipotles in Adobo Sauce this weekend using chipotles Mum sent and this recipe.

Anosmia: My son Christopher (8) can't smell. He had been telling us this for some time and at first we didn't take it too seriously as it soon became something of a game (or so it seemed). Anyway, lately he became quite upset at the fact and asked us to do something about it. So we took him to the doctor who did all the tests (which included x-rays and a smell-test). In the end he was diagnosed with "not being able to smell" (and the doctor shrugged "there's nothing we can do about it"). He can taste things ok - but it looks as though he will never be able to smell things like fresh coffee, flowers or perfume. Link.

Sick notes: This part of Germany is currently being hit by a wave of flu and similar type sympoms. On average 30% of kids attending school are currently sick - with peaks reaching 50% in some classes. We also had our share in the last couple of weeks.