John Meredith's Blog

Vader Loves the Passat

Yep. I am officially excited. X-Men: First Class opens June 1st in the UK (two days before the yanks!).

I’m not the only one to think HTC need to drop their prices for the Flyer tablet… http://www.eurodroid.com/2011/04/htc-flyer-to-get-android-3-0-shortly-after-launch/ But at least it’s getting Honeycomb soon.

It comes to something when you need to tune into BBC Bristol to get live coverage of a Ponty game… Today Pontypridd face off against Bristol in the Semi-final of the British and Irish Cup. The only Welsh team in the competition left, Ponty also are the only Welsh team capable of winning a cross [...]

The tablet wars are hotting up with a seemingly tit for tat battle between Google and Apple. Over the past month we have seen disciples of the Jesus Pad take to the streets for the Second Coming, a new slimmed down panic reaction from Samsung in the form of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Viewsonic [...]

The tablet wars are hotting up with a seemingly tit for tat battle between Google and Apple. Over the past month we have seen disciples of the Jesus Pad take to the streets for the Second Coming, a new slimmed down panic reaction from Samsung in the form of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Viewsonic [...]

Once upon a time I had a rant on here about being mistaken as working in a shop. And this has not ceased to be an issue. I don’t know why but yesterday in Boots someone asked me to direct them to some product. I think it was paracetamol. Or maybe sun cream. Or pile [...]

Who thought it would be a good idea to invent regression testing? I have spent  2 extra working weeks testing software over the last month (yep…there are six weeks in the last month in my calendar). I mean….why so much pain? We’ll see tomorrow…upgrade time!

RT @TheIndyNews Why Jamie’s knives are out for Sarah Palin – Americas, World – The Independent http://ind.pn/hLXLcD Well done Jamie.

If the possible mountain of unsold Samsung Galaxy Tabs is anything to go by, I think manufacturers of Satan Powered fondle slabs (a.k.a. Android tablets) have to think long and hard about pricing their latest wares at the same level as the Apple iPad. The Register has a thoughtful commentary on the perils facing manufacturers [...]