sunset from the kingston bridge
sunset from the kingston bridge, glasgow. had some lovely sunsets recently…tried to catch this one on the move…thought the cloud texture was rather nice…
blue steam train — glasgow transport museum
a blue steam locomotive in the glasgow museum of transport. there are some lovely, mostly old (obviously i suppose), exhibits in the museum including trains, cars, boats and various other modes of getting around…well worth a visit…and it’s free. see here for more details. it will be moving to a new home in april 2010 so have a look before it’s unavailable for a while.
htc — hero downgrade and root access
just got an htc hero smartphone…well actually it is from t-mobile and they call it a g2 touch. runs android 1.5. see here for a review.
after getting a replacement battery (the first one only lasted 12 hours at a time) i was liking it very much. wasn’t too happy about the t-mobile stuff bolted on to it though…
the solution? create a ‘gold card’ that enables you to downgrade the phone and replace the t-mobile ruu with the official one from htc.
follow these instructions very carefully and you too can have a t-mobile-free htc hero. you’ll need a microsd card that can be formatted, your usb lead and a decent charge in the phone. the whole process takes around 20 minutes. well worth it.
great phone with loads of free (and high quality) applications from the android market.
statue and mansions — glasgow architecture
maps — two examples of the varied architecture in glasgow’s city centre. a statue at the top of a building on sauchiehall street and st. george’s mansions at the corner of woodlands road and st. george’s road.
tower — gilbert scott building
the tower on the main building (gilbert scott) of the university of glasgow.
browser benchmark — test yours with peacekeeper
futuremark (the people behind the famous graphics card benchmarks) have a browser test available on their site peacekeeper.
you can check out other browsers results or test your own.
i only have three installed at the moment on ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 and my paltry results can be seen in this screenshot…
