October 12, 2005
Sony Ericsson pain
I own a Sony Ericsson P900. It has been OK for most purposes, and a big step forward. I have even just about got used to using Outlook to store my contacts in order to sync them with it, but I am stubbing my toe against a weird bug. It will not copy changes you make in your Outlook contacts over to the phone. For many months I thought this was my imagination. But no ...
I look online and I find that this is the least of the problems with the syncing software. As many of the posters point out, syncing is something the Psion had licked, so why they have somehow lost this ability I don't know.
A couple of the posters on the "All About Symbian" forum comment wistfully: "Don't any of the S-E [Sony Ericsson] people read this forum?" It is a good question. In my day job, running Market Sentinel I find that there is often no direct link between the feedback a company may be getting online and that company's own processes. Let's hope I am wrong about this.
Oh and Sony Ericssson: a well-indexed FAQ with bug fixes would be nice!
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October 11, 2005
Scottie Wilson drawing for sale!
Some three or four years ago my wife was rummaging through some boxes in Nine Elms market bootfair in London and she came across a small dish which reminded her of the Wedgwood designs of the Scottish primitive artist Scottie Wilson. She bought the dish for 50p. Moments later, in another box nearby she found this:
A pen and ink drawing of some birds in a frame from which the glass had gone. It was in the style of Scottie Wilson. Even more exciting it had this written in the bottom right hand corner.
She took the drawing to Bonham's of Edinburgh the expert Matthew Bradbury and he put it into their Scottish art auction of 2003 as a Scottie Wilson original. It was estimated between £200-£300, but in the event didn't sell.
This is partly to show that you can find original art works in weird places and partly an advertisement. Because we have a baby on the way and need the cash - we are ebaying it here. The auction runs till 20th October 2005.
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October 6, 2005
Lilian Baylis School
The development brief for Lilian Baylis School has been published. The school was listed as being of architectural interest in 2002. This means it can't be demolished to provide (e.g.) a swimming pool, or small units to provide employment. One might assume that this listing was based on a groundswell of support for the school as being of architectural merit. Googling the school and the name of the architects (LCC) gives you 82 results. Only one of them to an article by Nigel Fowler Sutton suggests the building has any architectural merit. There are no learned articles, no pamphlets, no site guides, nothing else. The site wasn't even opened during London's annual Open House weekend to interested architecture lovers. The decision to list it seems quixotic. The school is now disused and the listing will constrain this large site, surrounded by dense population, being used to benefit the local population. The listing should be rescinded.
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