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So after I reviewed the , I needed to wipe all my settings, etc. So first we do the manual thing, of course.

Yep, my review of the HTC S710 is on IOL Technology. Here's the blurb: Sliding out the QWERTY keyboard keeps our reviewer amused as he takes a look inside the S710 smartphone from HTC.

Read more in my review on IOL Technology.

I'm reviewing the HTC S710 for IOL Technology. Interesting phone. Has WLAN, Bluetooth, USB (of course) and *cough* Windows Mobile 6. I'm no Windows fan, but I thought I'd see if Microsoft was any good in the mobile arena.

I read a nice article today on News24.com about blogging by Benedict Kelly, since it's been a hot topic in the South African cyberspace after David Bullard wrote his little tirade on blogging and Patricia De Lille has been outspoken about censorship of blogs. And it's nice to see someone actually doing some thinking and investigation before spewing out some garbage about a subject they know very little about.

"Retarded politicians!" was my frustration put into words, at which a friend commented that what I had said was tautology. Tautology? I looked up the definition and found, "Repetition of the same idea in different words". Yes.

The cause of my frustration? Some politician on his way to work this morning, on the N2, in his little convoy with police forcing cars out of the way so that they could drive, about 20 kph ABOVE the speed limit, unhassled. What's the deal?

I was reading an article on IOL Technology today about how we're in the "Over-Design Age" and that got me thinking about inventions and innovations. Now there are two types of innovation, so let me explain...

• Evolutionary Innovation: This is when an innovation is a logical progression of an existing technology or system. Take DVD's for instance: they are simply a logical progression of CD's. Blu-Ray and HDDVD? Same thing.
• Revolutionary Innovation:

Yeah, last night Amarok kept on crashing with that error. So, off I go to Google. Found a whole bunch of articles with people who all had the same problem. Well, I decided to try some of their solutions, but none seemed to work.

Well, this is to say that my blog is back in action! My previous blog was being overrun by spam, and so I *had* to get rid of it. I've also moved to WordPress, and installed the Askimet plugin to reduce comment spam. Also, people have to register/log in to be able to comment. This theme was HACKED together by me. WordPress' theme system is atrocious! You can't do ANYTHING. So I've had to revert to some hard links and things. Perhaps with a bit more fighting, I can get around the hard links.