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Halfway through 2013 and it’s time for a new theme

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I’ve finally got around to updating the style of the website. It’s still based around the metro modern UI approach of Windows 8, Windows Phone and now android 4 and IOS 7 with an aim of putting content before chrome.

This theme is a heavily customised theme originally based on the wordpress ‘sensitive’ theme but bespoked to be more ‘metro’ and to retain some of the previous styling of the website.

It adds a little more ‘chrome’ than previously, but the focus is still wholly on the content. It also degrades better on mobile browsers and thus means you don’t necessarily need to switch to the mobile version of the site to view it on your phone.

NSLU2 Retirement for pi

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It’s with a tear in my eye that I finally retire my long serving NSLU2 running debian.
It’s been a good servant as both a network gateway (SSH/Certificates) and a source control server, plus my media streamer, however the time has come to replace this with a raspberry pi 🙂

My dear SLUG, you’ve been great… now onto some pi

Windows Phone 7 – Mango

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As a user of windows phone 7, I’m pretty excited at the fact that the Mango release is due within the next two weeks.
The user interface of windows phone 7 is by far and above the best experience of all mobile devices I’ve used, which include Symbian, Blackberry, Android and iPhone!

Windows Phone 7 is so extremely slick and intuitive, and needs to be seen/used and lived with before anyone passes judgement/fan boy ism comments. There’s just so many nice things about it, and the mango release looks set to address some of the more irritating issues, whilst adding a whole host of additional features!

As such – I’m also pleased to see Windows 8 going in this direction, along with the XBox360 Dashboard.

It looks like Microsoft is onto a winner here, be interesting to see the state of the mobile/OS/games console market in a couple of years time!

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Still use your NSLU2?

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I’m still using my NSLU2, though it’s pretty much serving as a firewall and remote access gateway now.

Currently it’s configured with DenyHosts, an SSH server configured with public/private certificates, and not too much else.

I then connect into my home network with my private certificate via SSH, and can then tunnel onto any other machine.

I’ve also purchased an arduino and am considering the possibility of some home automation via the slug!

Do other people still use their NSLU2 and if so, what for?

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