Author: ashleyelsdon

Storyteller - Poet - Explorer

3G gave up

Posted by on in Stuff, Tech

I don’t know if you can see it but just overlapping the Apple logo is that spinning thing that tells you that it’s doing something, or in this case, doing something for about 2 days. My jailbroken 3G finally broke and I had to wipe it to get it to do anything serious at all. Will I go back to a jailbroken 3G? Maybe, I’m not sure as yet quite what I want to do with the thing.

New Who!

Posted by on in Books and Audiobooks

Excellent, the latest 4th Doctor story has arrived! Can’t wait to give it a listen, but I might have to wait until the weekend.

World Poetry day

Posted by on in Books and Audiobooks, Events

I very nearly missed it completely, but I’ll be sure that it’s in my diary for next year at the very least. I’m not even sure that I knew that there was a world poetry day, but now I do. So what am I going to do about it? Well at the very least I’m going to try to read some poetry today, as I haven’t done that for a long time.

Mac OS 7 on Android

Posted by on in Mobile Applications

I finally found the files I needed to get this emulator running on my somewhat underpowered Android phone. Guess what, it works really well. So far I’ve only managed to get a few things working, but so far so good. It may even be useful, especially as I have a hypercard player app too.

App revisit: Vox 3000

Posted by on in Mobile Applications, Music

This app from the retronyms is still as much fun to muck about with as the day it was released. What more could you want than to be able to type in a message and get it spoken out?

What’s more, you can use audio copy / paste to take it somewhere else. It doesn’t get much better.

John Carter

Posted by on in Films

I went to see this film over the weekend despite the terrible reviews it has been getting. Part of me wanted to see it just because the reviews are bad, and also in part because I just don’t really trust anything that film critics say.

So, what was it like. Well, frankly, I enjoyed it. Sure, it isn’t some masterpiece, but I’ve seen much worse films, in fact much much worse. The story was ok, the characters were ok, there were one or two surprises and the effects were good. Most of all it didn’t seem to take itself too seriously. I liked that.

John Carter isn’t going to be remembered as a great film or maybe even a good film by some, but as a piece of entertainment I thought it did a good job and whilst I wouldn’t go out and buy the DVD, I’d almost certainly watch it when it comes out on TV in however long that now takes.