And this is why I don't keep a blog. One post every year at most, a blog does not make!
What am I upto these days? I'm still CTO of Workwithus.org and when I'm not building fundraising websites for charities or keeping our email marketing system running smoothly, I'm, erm doing more of the same!
I've been spending a lot of my spare time lately working for BT agilemedia, developing their social fundraising platform BT iDonate. We've got a number of big charities on board and it's being well received. We've so far launched facebook applications for: Dogs Trust, Childline, Scope (New Media Age's Website-of-the-Week 28th Feb 08!), Great Ormond Street Hospital, Crisis, Help a London Child and Missing People.
The remainder of my time is being spent on the tech team bringing Law 37's Alternate Reality Game for Cancer Research UK to life.
On top of all that, I'm in the process of sprucing up the busy forums SE-NSE which I've helped run for the past few years. In the near future there will be a major rebranding and very funky mobile version.
I'm currently involved in an alternate reality game called Perplex City. One of our remaning puzzles is to find a man from only his photo! Can you or your friends help? There is a reward!
A small application for mobile devices which support the JSR-75 extension to allow access to the filesystem of the phone or memory cards.
It allows you to protect the files on your phone with DES encryption.
Point your phone at http://www.ixalon.net/FileProtect.jad then set the MIDlet's permissions so that file read/write access is allowed.
A full Google Maps and Google Local client for Java equiped mobile devices. This one also needs the JSR-75 extension to allow it to cache map tiles on your phone, and if you want to use the GPS features and route-instructions (a la TomTom) you'll need support for the JSR-82 extension for bluetooth.
A linux based PVR/DVR running VDR (what a mouthfull!) Allows remote viewing of the live streams and recordings. and control over timers etc. via a touch-screen interface.
Another linux based PC, this time with a NI PCI-6025E DAQ card to control and monitor my reef aquarium.
Hopefully I'll get some of my photographs up here, including my winning entry to the Scottish Parliament Opening competition, which has been exhibited in New York Central Station, the Scottish National Photography Centre and Holyrood itself!
I've also a few photo-essays I'd like to do over the summer if I get time.
I've many more bits and pieces I've developed in the past, which I could probably bring back from the annuls of dusty HDDs: Java POSIX Signals, Java Raw Sockets, Java 3DFX, Synchronised Network Broadcasting, TCZ Client, The Tempest (Online Game), WebICQ, WebScrabble, Web IRC Interface, Parabox (Game), Atoms (PocketPC Game), etc. etc.