Category Archives: Technology

Mostly settled and connected

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 5 August, 2008. Filed under Personal, Technology. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
I am now mostly settled back in Nottingham. My worldly goods are out of storage and mostly in place. I am also now connected to the world again — iPhone in my pocket, broadband and (VoIP) home phone. Ah, the joys of a bourgeois lifestyle. The delivery of my household effects was straightforward, and the [...]

Internet Hermit

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 23 July, 2008. Filed under Personal, Technology. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
I am living the life of an internet hermit — at home, no Internet, no phone and no mobile (this is being posted over a pint). My solitary confinment is not by choice, of course. It’s the artefact of settling in (and no iPhone stock). This morning, I had to contemplate a new routine — [...]

WordPress on the iPod Touch and iPhone

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 22 July, 2008. Filed under Personal, Technology. Tagged , , , , . Comments Off.
WordPress for the iPod Touch and iPhone is now available and I’m using it for this post. The software seems quite polished without being overly complicated. The software enables offline writing (for out of range iPod or roaming iPhone users), tags and categories are no problem. The only limitation I have found so far is [...]

Organising

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 12 July, 2008. Filed under Technology, Work. Tagged , , , , . Comments Off.
I have spent some time this last week thinking and playing with to-do list management methods and software (and, perhaps more importantly, thinking about how to manage different tasks across different projects). I have for some time been using OmniFocus. The application builds on the (famous) “getting things done (GTD)” method of having contexts for [...]

iPhone Purchase Thwarted, Broadband Hassles

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 11 July, 2008. Filed under Personal, Technology. Tagged , , , , . 1 Comment.
I wandered to the local o2 store today to get an iPhone. I was reasonably keen to get one because I have been without a mobile for some weeks (my Nokia keyboard died while I was in India after some months of misbehaving) and have put off replacing it waiting for the new iPhone. The [...]