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waving good bye to england

Last week I said farewell to England after 2.5 years and returned back to home (Hungary), so this explains why I was so quiet in the last couple of days.
This is a really really big change to me and still cannot find out what sort of impact this is going to have on my life. I was working for a small company there and it was really a privilige, I did learn lot of stuff there (about programming) and I am sure I will miss them a lot. As for the future I decided to get MCSD, so I will write about this a lot in the near future.
I was thinking of the things what I am gonna miss the most in the last couple of days, I am going to miss BBC Radio 1, the great TV channels and programs, the Indian food, baked beans, the pubs and the good beers, amazon.co.uk, Dixon's and all the shops, Starbucks, Birmingham (especially the Bull Ring) and Warwick and lot of other things I just cannot think of right now... so good bye England it was fun to be there.

In search of the next Lego Master builder...

one applicant writes about his experience here:

So I show up and register and am told to go into this room where I can mingle with some of the other applicants and LEGO folk. They had two buckets of brick which they explained could be used if I needed to "warm up" for the building challenge which was about to take place. OMG, if only they knew that I had been up the whole night before building like a bandit, trying to prepare for anything they could throw at me...lol

I ended up swimming my hands through the pieces anyways. At first it was just for a soothing moment of Zen......

an other cool part:

"Don't worry about color--We're more interested in how you build and what you build rather than how well the colors match up" announced Pat who was in charge of the competition. He then says "The theme is sports. You have 45 minutes-Go!"

Sports?!?! Of all the frikken topics, I get SPORTS???

#10 immediately lights up and starts feverishly building away. Again, I start swimming my fingers through the bricks before me-but this time I'm swimming like I've just been shipwrecked with my fingers searching for a lifesaver of an idea to build.

from slashdot.

Make more mistakes

there is new article by Eric Sink is on MSDN. He writes really good articles about his experiences as an entrepreneur and gives good advice to all whom would like to do  an ISV on day! I defintely want so I think his articles are gold....

Newsgator 2.0 announced today...

I am thinking of purchasing an RSS reader soon (probably NewsGator or FeedDemon). At the moment I am more impressed with FeedDemon but I did not tried this new version yet...

Google IPO is going to happen soon...

... this should be interesting.

Sony boss opinion about Nokia, Ericcson, Palm and Symbian and more ....

This is an older but still interesting article with Sony's CEO:

In Part 1, Mr. Idei explains why he would buy Palm if they would sell, how Nokia doesn't get it, and why his music and entertainment group needs to get their act together if they want to stay competitive. In Thursday's Part 2, Mr. Idei and Tony debate the virtues of Linux versus Windows, and in Part 3 Mr. Idei talks about the Future of the Digital Livingroom.

I found his opinion about Nokia very interesting indeed:

Nokia is focused on volume—selling as many cell phones as possible at a low price. But in my observation, I am not sure they know very clearly what the real opportunity is in the telephone business. We are talking about secure distribution of music on the phone.

Part1, Part2, Part3.

WinCE.NET ported to xbox

It seems that someone ported WinCE.NET 4.2 to xbox. this is cool, why I did not think about this earlier :)
screen1, screen2 .

How I almostfell in love with my Palm Tungsten T3...

I had to buy a Tungsten T3 couple of months ago to help a friend eliminate one of a bug in his palm game - what was only happening on Tungsten T3 thanks to its collapsible grafitti area. I thought that after finding and correcting this bug I will get rid of it in ebay. Even if I loose couple of pounds I will have a cool toy for a week or two.

That T3 is sitting  on my desktop ever since - I was obviously too lazy to sell - and lately I found some really nice apps and started to explore its capabilites. And I discovered couple of really cool apps like Real One player and the Kinoma player or Converter 2.2 and some wicked Palm Games like Monopoly from Handmark or Tiny Lines and I can see myslef as one to addicted to Palm until the end of his days but unfortunately there is a big "almost" here.

Some problems what makes really really concerned about this cool machine. One thing is that I cannot use my 256MB SD Card (made by SanDisk) in my Palm, because after copying couple of mp3s it just simply stops working and tells me that something really bad thing happened and I should reset. The other is that when sometimes I do a soft reset the T3 just hangs in the middle of the Palm Logo animation and when this happens my only option is the hardreset and loosing all my stuff since the last hotsync...

The SD problem is still there even after installing the update published on PalmSource. My last hope is trying out the wireless options once I got some decent bluetooth enabled mobile phone. So this is my story how I almost fell for my Tungsten T3.