Bernie lists the Irish weblogs that are thriving and those that are rotting. [via [ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]]
So I'm still 'rotting' on Bernie's list which is well-deserved. I spent a while wondering about what to put in the blog, then I neglected the PC for a few months while I made the most of being unemployed through a good summer. I'm now a stone lighter from the cycling, windsurfing and hillwalking I was able to indulge myself in while waiting for the following Friday jobs page (empty of IC design jobs as usual).
Now I've determined to be self-employed doing what I enjoy which is making technology work for people in a useful way. There's so much software and hardware marketed on a promise of easy connectivity, reliability and productivity yet when it gets down to making it do what you expected, you'd need to give up the day job just to have the time to set it all up - many people don't have that luxury or the expertise/confidence to tackle the array of Options, Setups and Configurations that present themselves.
This week, the theme seems to have been getting GPRS smartphones (P800, XDA) to fetch email. Yes, its supposed to be straightforward but, I suspect, only if you did it before or know the right people in the mobile operator customer care or perhaps both. Next week, it seems a dodgy DSL setup looms, or perhaps another Access database.
Hopefully, from all this this I'll come up with the killer app we all need and finally setup that elusive startup.
As for the blog, I've been using that as a holding-pen for links I want to catch up on later. So its more for my use than for the general readership which seems makes it easier to post to?
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