Hogmanay is a Scottish word for New Year, especially New Year’s Eve and the celebrations that go with it. Here in Edinburgh we have a huge organised street party for New Year in the city centre.

This year there is a mobile guide to events, called Find It. While the service is rudamentary, it’s going in the right direction. Kudos to the VisitScotland.

Update: just had a look at it again and it has no Hogmanay content what so ever! It’s all about out-of-town attractions!

One of the nice things about this time of year are the greats ads that come out:

Irn Bru, Scotlands Other National Drink

Apple iPod Shuffle

I always wonder why Mac zealots get so excited about why MacOs being super wonderfully spiffingly better than Windows. I’m sitting here with my MacBook beside my Dell running Windows XP. They both annoy me. Why, for example, doesn’t my USB memory stick not show up in Finder while it is clearly on the desktop? Why doesn’t my shared server connection appear automatically when I log in? They both work on Windows. When does MacOs decide that a WiFi network is trusted? It seems pretty random to me, I have to say, as I have to manually select it a few times and then, lo, it stops asking. Ensuring that the network in the System Preferences list doesn’t make any difference. Sigh. Again, on Windows, this just works.
And on Windows, why does it still take so long to delete anything?

Pots calling the kettle black! Perhaps the marketeers are feeling the same - all the recent Apple ads they focus on the iThing applications.

Best wishes to all at the end of another year. 2007 is going to be MASSIVE.

Apologies for not having time to post. Many excellent things happening taking all the time doing, rather than writing. Hopefully have more time in the new year. Yeah, right.

A first good sign is that our home internet has finally been sorted. There was some BT issue between our house and the exchange. We seemed to be connected to the wrong IP connection, although the phone number itself was correct. Very strange, not quite sure what was happening there. In any case it’s fixed now, hurrah. And very fast - a full 8Mb/s

Due to the magical incompatibilities of MMS, when I get sent an MMS on my Vodafone device, I get sent an SMS with a URL and a password. The URL doesn’t work on any phone browser I’ve tried, but it used to work on my computers.

Not this week. All you get is a registration/login page to setup some kind of Deadstudio account. No place to pick up the pictures. You can, however, read the instructions for picking up pictures which include a link to the same page as the SMS. Which doesn’t work.

Just come off the phone to Vodafone Customer Support where they tell that things have been upgraded. Yeah right. Didn’t anybody actually test it before they put it up? Clearly not.