Plane Finder AR

Just installed Plane Finder AR onto the phone. Point your camera at a plane and it’ll tell you

  • what it is
  • where it is
  • where it’s going
  • how far away it is
  • whose it is
  • absolutely brilliant. I love it. Just right for an aircraft geek.

    Night time picture of screen! That’s what time it is here!
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    Cruel Advert

    Clicked on a google news link to Telegraph website article about diets from the BMJ. Advert is brilliant.

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    Mobile Phones

    I have owned a number of mobile phones and most of them were rubbish. Going to give you a rundown of them from the earliest.
    Phone number 1 – sometime in 1999 or so:
    Brick
    The Ericsson A1018

    The order of the next few phones is not remembered easily. But here goes:
    O2 X1

    The next was:
    A200

    then:
    Nokia 3210

    And then the nifty fold-out keyboard:

    Nokia 6280 Nokia 6230

    Then we get to the first smart phone:

    Nokia N70

    Then the brilliant and pretty usable N95, it was the last Nokia I owned that worked well:

    Nokia N95

    Then the big memory but pretty useless N97:

    Nokia N97

    Finally, a phone that works. The iPhone 4. Until then the iPhone specification was pretty rubbish. It took a lot of soul searching to convince myself that selling out to the walled garden of Apple was worth it. However, I have to say that the iPhone is brilliant. It works!

    iPhone 4

    Definitely Autumn

    Took this picture during a dog walk (there’s a surprise). The colour of the leaves was gorgeous but probably not captured without decent filter or image editing software (which I don’t use).

    Carpet of Leaves

    The holiday will be a failure

    I had mentioned to WW that I really wanted some time playing GT5 this holiday with the steering wheel. I may have said:

    If I don’t get to play GT5 this holiday it will have been a failure!

    This means no kids or anyone for about 2 hours. The time was set. Monday afternoon. Number one son would be in nursery and WW and son #2 would be seeing friends so I had about 4 hours when I could play uninterrupted!
    I needed to complete around 10 online races to get the money and just because they are there to complete. The four hours would be pushing it but I reckoned that without lunch I could have done it.
    So I set up the PS3 with steering wheel and pressed play.

    GT server down for routine maintenance 12 to 4pm

    Arrgggghhh. The only races I could do offline was a World Championship and I didn’t want to spend the time and effort and have to save mid-championship.
    I shut down GT5 and played Rock Band. The original save file is copy protected and so I had to start from scratch. Definitely didn’t do the easy or medium – straight to hard.
    So far the holiday has been a failure. Going to try tonight.