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Successful Hols – Cruise

Just back from a cruise with Azamara, really surprised found almost nothing to moan about just excellent food, facilities and service. Admittedly, we did push the boat out and go for an Owners Suite one of the wrap around ones at the back of the ship, with loads of space, tv’s etc..and a butler.

Had no idea what to expect but it was really relaxing and very entertaining, took about 5 boooks to read and managed to read less than half a book as seemed to have no time to sit down as every port was stunning and the views on occasions took your breath away.

I did however start reading ‘Essential GWT: Building for the Web with Google Web Toolkit 2’, have looked into GWT before but could not get to grips with it, so bought this book (on the Kindle of course), so far excellent.

 

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Motorola Xoom

Just acquired Motorola Xoom, 10.1 inch, 32G, 3.0 android upgraded to 3.1 within 5 minutes of charging and turning on by Motorola.

I use a Kindle to read books, this works very well; the battery life and the screen print are fantastic, but the lack of colour (hence the battery life I suppoe) and the inability to read news is crap. Hence the appeal of the Xoom, battery life so far advertised 10hrs and that is what you get, good enough for a weekend away reading books and news.

The Xoom is an excellent piece of kit, fast, good screen, easy to use masses of storage (not bothered to add SD yet).

Gripes; charges using a seperate charger, very quick but no USB option; Glossy screen attracts sun, reflections and finger prints; feels heavy, although this has not been a big issue; reading on the screen is OK not as good as Kindle eink; Kindle app not as good as Kindle; Android email poor compared to desktop as is document management.

Love; Very quick, fast; Colour, browsing kindle store whole new experience; News readers and web sites without tedium;

 

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Sony DSC HX9V

Purchased a new Camera, primarily because ever since we broke our Konica 3mp ancient digital camera we have not been able to find a camera that is easy to use and produces good photos. The Sony has loads of features none of which we shall remember how to use after next week.

The main fetaures we wanted after the obvious things like size and good quality were:

  • background softfocus

    OWL Background defocus
  • panoramic see result here

Whether it is actually any good no idea everybody says so! But could not be arsed comparing, will wait a few months and then decide.

 

 

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JCuG reinvented

Just reinstalled the blogging engine WordPress 3.2.1, very easy. Keys things for me to remember:

1. File and directory permissions, use sudo.

chgrp -R www-data *
chown -R www-data *
chmod -R g+rw *

2. Make backup directory useable by www-data or apache owner, otherwise backups do not work very well!

3. Good plugin for me.

BackWPup
SexyBookmarks (by Shareaholic)
WordPress SEO