I’ve not been posting recently, having recently moved house from east to west London and having to wait for broadband to get installed at the new place. I will be posting a little more again from next week, in particular, the results of my search for a viable alternative to Evernote.
As an aside, have been talking with a friend about maybe starting up a podcast (NOT tech-related).
Evernote has just released version 3.5 of their Windows note taking app. Unfortunately, the first screenshot you see here is not the UI for the new version, but a mockup I put together in order to offer suggestions in their beta test. The discussion relating to the UI is one of the busiest threads on their message board for the beta.
The actual UI looks like this:
Which looks like a bad Java applet from the XP days, instead of a WPF-based app for a modern Windows platform (yes, that shitty UI is built on WPF). Throughout the beta, the Evernote devs have, through a profound lack of communication, repeatedly ignored its’ testers/customers, failing to fix bugs that were brought to their attention, and straight out lying when they said they were going to fix the issues that we, as customers brought up. On top of that, a lot of the functionality that was in previous versions was simply dropped, with little explanation.
I will be removing Evernote from my PC, iPod and my family’s Macs, I won’t be resuming my Premium subscription with them. I shall now be researching alternatives. Fuck you Evernote!
Doing some more tweaks on hooking Twitter into this blog, since my last attempt failed miserably. Anyway, getting myself ready to kick some arse at tonight’s pub quiz…
I’m checking to see if I can now get integration with my twitter account via su.pr, if it works I should be able to squeeze out a tweet when I post.
Still pottering about with the site, now trying to install Disqus for the comments system. It hasn’t thrown out the horrendous errors that it used to on the old host, which I guess is a good sign…
Well, I’ve been neglecting my site for quite some time. Getting made redundant from one job, moving house, taking a shitty minimum-wage job to pay the rent, then chasing a job with TfL didn’t leave me much room for farting around online. However, I’ve managed to get most of that behind me, and I now find myself with that rare luxury – time.
I thought I’d dust off the site and try again. In doing so, I realised that the host I was using wasn’t a great fit for WordPress, and I was only really using it to host a site for a client who recently decided to move their site elsewhere – fair enough, I had no time to maintain it anymore, and we agreed that 4 years had been a good run.
So I found myself looking for a new web host, and was listening to Leo Laporte on his Tech Guy show, and heard him mention DreamHost in passing, I thought “hey, why the heck not?” and checked it out. Turns out I hit it at the right time, because their Black Friday deal got me a years’ hosting for less than the price of one month! ($9.24) So I switched everything over and found a one-click install of WordPress 
And now I find myself making the same promise to myself, that I will find time to keep this site updated and not ignore it. We’ll see how long that lasts…
