Surprisingly good game on very cheap mobile

Because of the massive problems with Vodafone this morning I went out and bought a very cheap Samsung  GT-E1150i on TMobile at lunchtime because I need a working mobile for work, and of course my main mobile is network locked to Vodafone, so I can't just pop in a different SIM.

Anyway.  While waiting for a package manager update to install on a linux box (yawn) I had a fiddle with the new phone and discovered that even though it's really really cheap (£12) it has apps, and even games!

There's Suduku, which I am awful at so didn't even attempt, and Super Jewel Quest - an actually rather good version of the classic Jewels game.

RandomTech: Echo 500 Electronic Organ Watch

I'm fascinated by random tech, always have been.  It's the sort of odd electronic things that you get in those tacky shops on holiday that have always intrigued me.   I figured, as I have this blog now, I could actually review some of them.

So, first up - the Echo 500 Electronic Organ Watch.  

Trying out Twitterfeed

I've decided to try out Twitterfeed to auto-tweet about these blog posts.  So this is kind of a test, I suppose.

Frankenspeccy

First of all, not really a hack, just a repair job.  

A friend had a ZX Spectrum which had a badly corroded circuit board, and the keyboard membrane had fallen apart. Aesthetically it looked good though.  I had a working Speccy, but it was all cracked and beat up, so basically I did a case-transfusion to make one good, working one. 

My beaten up, but still working old Spectrum

Hello World

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