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27
Nov

A device for every purpose and then some

To fully understand this post you’ll need to appreciate that I’m a geek and so have the normal geek armoury hanging off my shoulder more or less everywhere I go.

Within that I have a camera, two mobile phones (one for calls one for internet), a NDS, a book, a notebook, a netbook, a video camera, an audio recording device and a few other bits and pieces.

That’s the reason I have a bad back BUT more importantly it’s the reason I rarely get bored – everywhere I go I carry a full on entertainment system with me and am ready to cover any news story that might break around me.

Because of always carrying a good camera I’ve managed to get photos of armed sieges, gas leaks, protest and more that I wouldn’t have got to in time if I had to go back and get a camera.

But I got thinking the other day – with mobile devices becoming more comprehensive in their feature lists and with each individual feature becoming more usuable – do I really still need all those devices.

I could get an iPhone or a new Android based phone that can take photos, video, get online, act as a mini computer, do video, let me read books, record audio and even let me send anything I gather straight to the internet.

But, it’s main purpose is the internet device, the mini internet device – it LETS me do all of the above but none of it to a standard a device designed with the purpose in mind can.

Do I think the dawn of the single device is upon us? No not even a little bit but I do think we’re entering an era where every individual device will be able to do many of the things every other device in my bag can do – to a limited extent.

It’s only a matter of time before my camera has internet access (some can already do video) and every other device can do a little bit of everything.

I see a world not so much built around one device doing everything reasonably well but a selection of devices each doing one thing really well AND a selection of other things reasonably well.

That was if you do forget one device there is something else that can fill in behind it – just not as well as it would have done on its own.

I’ll settle for mobile phone pics if I forget my camera, I’ll settle for reading on a netbook or browsing the web on my phone if I forget my book or netbook – but neither is how I’d CHOOSE to do it.

Interestingly – my wife who isn’t exactly a geek has a camera, mobile phone, iPod and NDS in her bag and carries them more or less everywhere she goes – even if they are all pink!

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26
Jan

Diet Diary: In need of video?

You might have noticed that I haven’t exactly kept up with this regular diet diary idea – it isn’t that I haven’t kept up with my diet (although to a certain extent I haven’t) – it’s just that I got a bit bored.

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I love food, I love cooking, I love combining flavours and most of all I love eating – so why would I write about the absence of food – or at least something that makes me considers the absence of food?

Well I’ve decided to start again; I do like the idea of writing a diary of my eating habits – but approach in a less dogged way.

Instead of saying – time to get rid of the junk and write about what I have and haven’t eaten – I’m going visual.

I’ve been trying to think of a way to bring back my much ignored video podcast for a while but its one of those ideas that is constantly put to the back of my mind every time something shiny enters my line of site.

Well I’ve decided to combine the two problems of being bored with a diet diary and too easily distracted for a video blog and create a diet vlog.

Yup I’m going to show you what happens when I make food, I’m going to talk to you about my diet and I’m going to rant when I can’t have a bar of chocolate.

But I’m also going to look into alternatives to the bars of chocolate, try and avoid eating at my desk and generally use it to take my mind off not having all the junk that normally fills the gap in my day.

Some posts will be with a proper video camera, others with a mobile phone and some will be recorded with my webcam – but all, hopefully, won’t be too awful.

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