Broadband woes

Three months since my last post, it’s been almost that long to get my broadband sorted out properly. Had major difficulties with Virgin Media – apparently I have the wrong type of paving slab outside my front door, so decided to go with Sky, they installed promptly, though there was some confusion as to whether they needed to send an engineer for my phone line or not. Then, their “up to 20MB” speed is currently limping along at somewhere shy of 2MB – I really should speak to them about that.

Taking notes

Ah yes, Evernote. The fugly app that I wish to be rid of and the company that I feel is incredibly arrogant*. (side thought: are Windows users being treated like second class citizens with regards to app UI design?) I’ve been doing a bit of digging around, trying to find alternatives. Springpad seems quite interesting, could certainly fit my iPhone capture needs and the barcode scanning is pretty impressive. I have however, gone with OneNote 2010 as my choice. I’m aware it’s not free, but I like how it works and as an Office user the integration points are a no-brainer. Plus, there’s now Office Web which pretty much covers most of the cases where I would have used Evernote. It doesn’t have an easy iPhone option, but I guess those are the sacrifices we make.

*based on my impressions of my experiences on the Evernote support forums

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).