The Nutter On The Bus

On every training course I have ever been on there is always a computer-bore nitwit who sole purpose in life seems to be letting everyone know how acute his obsessive compulsive disorder is; as I have been finding out, this is an international condition. Everyone else just sits quietly and waits till the nitwits' "willy waving" has passed.

The real action will happen at lunch time, when we all try desparately to avoid sitting next him.

"so what back up technology are you using?"

Gunner Sugden

Day 2 of the course and we have gone midlet crazy. The blue meanies have a grand vision for the mobile world, all built around Websphere Device Developer, it appears quite impressive.

After some investigation my own take on this is that:

i) The big software companies are pushing the mobile stuff and there are a lot of free resources around.

ii) The big telcos focus is on games right now.

iii) Most clients are still not ready for it.

iv) This will change in the next 12 months as Midp 2.0 kicks in and more devices become available.

The most alarming thing to happen, is that all the Czech students have turned up in huge Gunner Sugden shorts, socks and sandles.

Help me Rhonda.

Paris

So the course said Paris. Turns out it was the French equivalent of Croydon. Just had lunch with my fellow students in the canteen. In France you can buy a beer or a small bottle of wine with your lunch, imagine if they did this in England? People would be hanging out the windows or forming pyramids. It would end in tears. Burp.

Busking in Budepest

Bo Uke, from the "Dukes of Uke", busks by a fountain in the centre of Budepest. The picture was taken by his brother Luke.

A Fist Full Of Szlodys

They were riding east, drinkin' hard and packing ukes. The kids just looked at each other and said, "Who were those masked men anyhow? We didn't even ask them their names".

The Dukes of Uke hit Hungary, 2004