Rational Geekery

A beautiful waste of time.

Fine, fine work.

Via. the b3ta digest

I’m trying to improve my twitter experience by reducing the number of feeds I follow. I have just shaved around 40-50 from my “following” list and will, over the next week or so, take it down to a nice, round 100.

My feed has become just too clogged. Anyone who posts too often (without being particularly interesting) will also get the boot. I’m demanding more focus from my time-sinks

Also, I have redesigned tygerland using the popular K2 template.

Now *this* is a project for me and my boy. The full details have been released under CC.

via. engadget

04-08-2008

Originally uploaded by tygerland.net

I may have the opportunity to go back into industry.

We have a lot of things going on, businesses and investments etc., so it would make sense for me to go back and earn some real money for 5-years or so.

At the end of the day I have a family and I’m young. I have plenty of life in front of me. I’m pretty sure I can buckle down for a few more years, if it means things will be much easier later.

So I have to make a decision. The role must, of course, be achievable and I need be given the tools to deliver. But I guess it could be exciting again to be driven by the demands of industry.

The job will mean going back to the UK. This is not such a bad thing. I would have liked to have found a good job here in Tallinn, but alas, my inability to speak Estonian makes this improbable, and I don’t have chance to learn before I have to start earning more. The English tutoring pays okay, but it’s really only chump-change to keep me teabags and food. I need more.

So the whole bandwagon will probably be going back in month or so. I have Olga arriving on Monday, which will be great. She’s here for three weeks so the whole family will be back together for a few weeks. Excellent.

I went back to the UK last week - hence no posting. I returned to Tallinn yesterday with my Nokia N95 8GB after unlocking the SIM restrictions. Apparently Vodafone have ceased locking contract phones, and are happy to unlock all existing contract models (even if still under terms).

This makes sense. Even if you decide to use a contract phone with a different network, you still have the contract and are still - in theory - repaying the subsidy on your new phone. This is not the case with pay-as-you-go burners, which remain locked by Voda and other providers. By selling unlocked contract phones, Vodafone will lose little in terms of revenues, and add-value to their offerings to customers. Win-win.

BTW. I took the kids to the park yesterday and have some video footage from the phone. The thing captures gorgeous video.

I have a new book.

Also, I fly back to the UK tomorrow for a week. Blogging will be light.

Getting very little time to blog at the moment. With nursery on holiday and my babysitter’s daughter ill, I have the kids around full-time. Also, I had a busy few days with teaching (esp. yesterday, where I didn’t finish until 8pm). It’s downhill from here though, as I only have one lesson today and one tomorrow. Then on Friday, it’s to airport and back to England for a week - sans kids.

Mind you, lots to do, wedding arrangements and two reviews to write (one a game, one for a HDSPA dongle) mean I’ll not be lazing around. I also want to have a look at Unreal 3 on the XBOX, I haven’t had chance to play U3 yet on any system so I’ll be wanting a session on Friday when I visit my bro-in-law.

Back in Tallinn next Thursday.