Twitter etc.

I'm not sure what I think of this. Although I've become hooked on lancearmstong. Not that it's particualry interesting, but I keep coming back ... strange. I suspect it's the same reason we love to read gossip about the VIP's of the world (Oh! And don't deny it - you do it too).

From a usability point of view there isn't all that much to remark. It works - even though tinyurls suck without a title (but that's not twitters fault).

Blackberry

I've had the mixed pleasure of being the user of a Blackberry the last 9 months. What a piece of crap! The menus suck and seems like in the "good old" WordPerfect days to just have grown and grown without ever being completely re-thought.

The browser works pretty decently I must admit, especially on sites built for mobile devices, and at least as good (if not better) than most of the Nokia's I've tried out.

Best of all when you read your mail, you don't always get everything in the mail (if it's too big), and you can the choose between "more" ... and "more all". "More all" - c'mon!

Although - other phones could learn from the watch feature which actually gives you the opportunity to use it as an alarm clock (you can choose to use the alarm time on weekdays, or everyday - which means that you don't have to set it every night - pretty smart).

And then there's the keyboard - what can I say? I don't even have "fat" fingers (many will testify to this), but find it close to impossible to use.

In conclusion: If ever I get the choice, the blackberry will be pretty far down the list of preferred mobile devices. Although the Pre looks "kinda slick"

OpenOffice.org - 5 minutes in to it

Long time no blogs - been busy, and not very user focused :-)

Anyway - I'm polishing up my resume and as the home laptop does not have MS Office (only MS Works which sucks big time - I suspect it's MS Write and Calculator dressed up a bit), I've had to try out OpenOffice.org. It ROCKS. I've now spent 5 minutes with it and already created a "copy" of my meticulously formatted MS Word version (from scratch, mind you!). Try it out - it's free.