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Team orders

Phil — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:46:35 +0000

I watched the Grand Prix this afternoon, and was totally unsurprised to read this evening that Ferrari had been penalised for using team orders to affect the result of the race. I was, however, surprised that the penalty is so low.

$100,000 is a lot of money to fine a small privateer team, but it’s peanuts to [...]

Golf balls

Phil — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:00:25 +0000

Phil muses on the relative merits of cheap, middling and expensive golf balls. [...]

Running presentations using only an iPad

Phil — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:32:19 +0000

So, you have tens or hundreds of presentations and you would like to present them from your iPad. You could use Keynote for iPad, if your presentations are in Keynote form. But what do you do if they’re in PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Freelance, StarOffice, Symphony or LaTeX?

StrawberryCat PDF Presenter is the software I wrote to [...]

My first apps are now on the App Store

Phil — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:58:31 +0000

My company's first apps are now available on the iTunes App Store. [...]

Porting apps to iPad

Phil — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:56:42 +0000

My business iPad arrived last Thursday, and I spent the first few days absorbing the feel of the built-in apps and thinking about how to alter my existing iPhone apps so that they fit in with the iPad idioms.

I use the list and navigation controller combination a lot on iPhone, so the natural progression is to [...]

Revised Gravatars Plugin

Phil — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:35:37 +0000

Phil has updated the OS X Address Book plugin for Gravatars to handle mixed-case email addresses. [...]

Legal action

Phil — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:07:27 +0000

Just a quick note to update you all on the Black Horse situation. I have started legal proceedings by sending form N1 to Winchester County Court: N1 Claim Form: Phil Vs Black Horse Ltd. The court case has so far cost me £150.66 plus [...]

Electoral reform

Phil — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:57:59 +0000

Phil's thoughts on the structure of a more democratic Britain. . [...]

New venture

Phil — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:17 +0000

Those of you who were my colleagues at IBM have hopefully noticed that I left last week. I am now running a mobile applications development business. I will post StrawberryCat news here occasionally, but the best way to keep up-to-date is to subscribe to the StrawberryCat news feed.

There isn’t much more to say just [...]

Why and how I am threatening Black Horse Finance Limited

Phil — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:56:51 +0000

I don’t like being threatened, and I don’t like threatening anyone. Unfortunately I have just been forced to do so. Before I show you the letter I have just written, let me tell you the whole story. In March 2007 I bought a Mazda MX-5 on hire-purchase. The agreement was arranged by a broker [...]