I have been very busy at work. Mee too. She is currently working at my workplace on a contractual basis. Hopefully, at the end of her contract, she will be offered a permanent job.

Good news, I am still working on the system that was supposed to be completed on the 1st of September 2010. Well, the system is considered up and running already but I am working on ways to improve it. Trainings will be done from tomorrow and by the end of next week, staffs should be using it instead of the paperworks they dealt with for the past years. Hmm… there are just so much things to do.

On another note, Apple has launched a range of new iPods. The iPod nano has ditched the camera and it is now operating solely on touch screen input. It is also smaller as the wheeler thingy has gone. The new iPod touch is essentially an iPhone 4 but without the phone capability. The equipped camera is capable of HD recording but only 960×720 still photos. It also has a front camera that allows users to utilise the FaceTime app, a video calling app over WiFi. A few days ago, I watched The Gadget Show and they used a brilliant software that could almost control every electronic equipment, from kitchen lighting and curtain to switching on your TV set to a specific channel, through voice. If that can be ported to iPod or any smartphone platforms, it would be impressive.

It has been a month since I bought my HTC Desire. As usual, after using a gadget for sometime, less care will be taken when using it. At the very least, I have the screen protector on it. One of the reasons that I use the screen protector is that the HTC Desire’s screen itself is fingerprint magnet. Initially, I thought the screen protector was a bad idea because it was sticky even though it does not attract fingerprint. The more I use it, the less sticky it is and now, it is smooth without the need to polish the screen every now and then.

I believe I am quite comfortable with the Android scene. It is obviously much more user friendly than Windows Mobile phone and the settings are very much straightforward. The market is a lot of fun with tons of applications and games to download and try. Most free applications or games come with advertisement. I believe the advertisement will be catered to the types of games or applications that you are running. When I was playing fashion games, the advertisement that came up was about prom dresses and also recommending other similar games. I am quite impressed how HTC Desire copes with running both the games and advertisement at the same time. It is almost seamless. But bear in mind that if you have your mobile network connection switched on while playing games with advertisement, you are likely to loose some network data allowance.

The situation in my workplace is a little bit of havoc. One day the system is up and running, the next day nothing seems to work. I have a new PC with Windows 7 but I am still using my old PC on Windows XP because the network and servers do not seem to like the new Windows 7 very much; even though the so called IT professionals have tested Windows 7 for weeks. They should have upgraded Windows 7 by batches. Instead, they upgraded all existing PCs to Windows 7 over last weekend. When everyone eagerly came to work on Monday to test out the new system, it did not work at all. In fact, most staffs could not do their work because the servers and computers were not talking to each other.

Just yesterday, they managed to get most things up and running but this morning, everything just stalled. None of the IT professionals could be found until 0900 hours. They solved it eventually. Well, they have to. I am still using my old PC and the new PC is lying comfortably under my table, unused. Ideally, I would like to have another set of monitor, keyboard and mouse so that I can install the software I use on the new PC while giving me the ability to work using my old PC. But I doubt they have the time to deal with my request anyway. Bear in mind that everything should be up and running by the end of this week!