For what it’s worth, here are a few notes and ramblings about my experience with Nokia’s new flagship business phone, the Nokia E72.

The Nokia E72
I’ve been looking for a new mobile phone for some time now. Something to replace my constant companion of the last two years, the Nokia E51.

(well used) Nokia E51
It was always [...]

If you live in Bletchley, Milton Keynes or anywhere nearby and you’re looking for a good, honest, family-run garage to get your car serviced then I suggest look look no further than Milton Keynes Tyre and Brake (MKT&B).
Every single time I’ve used the garage to get work done they’ve ended up charging me less than [...]

I paid a visit to SecondLife a couple of years ago to find out what all the buzz was about. It was a bit like the Sims meets Grand Theft Auto but with no missions to do. After a while I felt it was a bit of a glorified chat room albeit one where you [...]

Picture the scene. I’m sat in the open plan office and I get a text message. My message alert sounds. Everybody laughs as the 70s Open University motif from the BBC trills through the tiny but impressively loud speaker of my Nokia e51.

I return to work today from a marathon four weeks off. Two of those weeks were official paternity leave and the final two were holiday bolted onto the end. Four weeks was just right for me. Helen and I have settled down into this parenthood lark and I’m comfortable leaving to get on with their [...]

My workload at the Open University (OU) stepped up a gear in 2006 and I was granted extra responsibility and increasing autonomy. I was enlisted to work on the graphical user interface for the OU ePortfolio, MyStuff. This was initially a very exciting task as I was brand new to the concept which seemed like [...]

Helen and I welcomed our son Oliver into the world last Saturday. At 10:10am on the 2nd August 2008 Oliver made his way into the world in an unexpected breached delivery.
Our first child, we’re learning a lot about parenthood fast. To say we’re delighted is an understatement! Many thanks go out to all our [...]

I’ve decided to stop posting daily links from delicious to my blog. You’ll still find them at del.icio.us/guyweb/ though.
I’m thinking about the best way to start blogging again. Real posts about real things would definitely be better than auto-posting my delicious links so let’s see what starts occurring.

Back on board after six months doing other things. Since I passed over my design comps the developers have been hard at work coding it up into an actual application.
It’s still very rough around the edges but I’d say it’s at about alpha stage now, ready for a bit of testing. Needs a lot of [...]

Two rather big things are competing for my time at the moment:

OUTEXTS – A pilot text message service to students. Students sign up for free text messages which alert them about upcoming assignment hand-in dates, exams and such like. I’ve developed the web support pages and well as coordinated with AACS and Student Services colleagues [...]