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The 3rd most direct hits on my blogs come from mobile devices, namely the iPhone. The default viewing experiences on a mobile device is kind of Ok. Still there is a lot to be desired. So I started looking into different options to “mobilify” the experience on DasCloud and The Pareto Principle. Both blogs run on Wordpress. Being on Wordpress, there’s multiple options if you want to improve the experience of your blog for mobile visitors. It all depends on how deep you want to go into configuration or fiddling with code. If you are like me and want it to just work, WPTouch might be the right choice for you. Here’s all the work I had to do to enable what I believe is a great user experience for the mobile community. I selfhost my blogs. If you host your blog on wordpress.com, it is even easier.
The bonus step enables users of Windows Mobile devices using the mobile version of IE to share the same experience as non Windows phone users. By default the following user agents are supported in the current version of the plugin:
The settings dialog of WPTouch offers a dead simple way to add other devices or agents. Sound easy? Is easy, painless and works. A more detailed description is available on wordpress.org and the author’s website. Tip: Other themes/plugins supporting mobile devices on Wordpress that look cool but I have not played with: If you ever are in need of an emergency, feel free to push the button. Unfortunately this must be a version 1 product. There is no way to select the type of emergency you long for. But anyway, its a good start.
[re-post from my company blog]* We have another HPC Pack 2008 family release now live! This package integrates the ‘F5’ experience of launching the Visual Studio 2008 MPI Cluster Debugger and your Windows HPC Server 2008 environment, for a better and more integrated debugging experience. This is pretty awesome! Resources Windows HPC Server 2008 website *haven’t blogged in a while. It felt so good when I hit the post Publish button in Live Writer, I just had to do it again … Poor Bernie. How does that sound? I can certainly appreciate the fact that he has been sent to prison for a long, long time. But it still leaves a stale taste in my mouth. Not that I ever had the chance to be part of his ponzi game, nor am I a direct victim of his wrong doings. But we all suffer the consequences from his pride (see below). He and a large number of other people, less smart, less convincing but with at least as much “power” are responsible for the worldwide economic crisis.
Institutions like the SEC in the US and similar agencies across the globe are meant to protect us from ourselves. Among many other things. So the most pressing question is what will happen to those institutions and folks working there? Will they be prosecuted, punished, sentenced? And BTW, Bernard L. Madoff is human after all, right?
Now, that makes us all feel much better, doesn’t it? That and that his wife will not have said “Honey I’ll wait until you’re back.”
TechCrunch talks about it. Twitter is full of Tweets about it. The world talks about it. Bing. The new decision engine from Microsoft. I was not surprised to find this on TechCrunch:
What surprised my though was my wife. While she continuously surprises me every day, this time it was a particular interesting surprise. It went like this:
Who could say no? Certainly not me! We’ve never talked about it other than me mentioning the fact that Microsoft has launched a new search engine and that she should take a look and try it. My wife is your typical PC user and most of the stereotypes you might have heard over the years apply. She calls me when something seems to be broken. She waits until I come home when she does not know what to do when a dialog box pops up and asks questions an average end user is completely overburdened with. And it goes on. I scored big time when I installed Win7 beta and later RC on her MacBook. But she lives on the Internet and most of her Internet experience starts with Google. To make a long story short and to answer the TechCrunch question:
At least from my experience last night, this has nothing to do with forcing a search engine onto people or with the heat of the moment, I am convinced Microsoft has (finally) found a way into the consumer’s What’s your experience? What do you (dis-)like about bing? Have you or anyone you know switched? Find out more about bing and The Sound of Found. Welcome, enjoy my personal blog. It is 80% ready. |
 
 
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What I don’t get is why he an others could trick ordinary and extraordinary people in such a profound way. Well, you might say, those people now pay for their greed. And greed is what they drove into the hands of Mr. Madoff and alike. And while you are right, and greed is – in many, many cases – the root of all evil, we had set up institutions worldwide to protect us from our own greed if you will.
