I came across a curious little Opera Mini kind of clone today, called Skyfire. It allows you to see videos embedded in web pages whilst browsing the Internet using your mobile. According to the literature, it seems to work with most Symbian phones; I've tried it out on the Nokia E63. You can find out more about it here and here. A little rough round the edges at the moment - iPlayer half-worked then hung, although the Guardian video player went like a dream - but some potentially mighty features, all the same. I liked the double click zoom feature in particular. Well worth a try.
Meanwhile, we had a power dip in our area of Chester this evening. Lights went dim, our digital radio spat out noises like a mini machine-gun, and the toaster and microwave stopped working completely. A quick phonecall to what we used to call Manweb confirmed that up to a hundred houses would probably be affected.
Seems to have been sorted by now though.
I had visions of an early computerless night.
No chance.
For even as I hide in technological bunkers of my own making, I am still trying to work out why I should continue to participate in the political process. Yes. I know. People are suffering. And so they are. But what, in all reality, can my participation do to ameliorate that suffering? I am but a grain of sand on a crude-ridden beach that runs for miles and miles; a beach that occupied a treasured place in Paradise but is currently awaiting a final apocalyptic napalming by people who operate in utter bad faith.
People who will choose to unravel all the good the last decade has brought us and simply build on all the bad.
Jos is right. Politics is not about gratitude but aspirations. We - as a political movement - have forgotten what that means.
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