The biggest problem is that your projects must live in the “C:\Program Files\Samsung\Samsung TV SDK(3.1.1)\apps” folder. After a brief moment of outrage at not being able to store my code where I want, I found this blog post by Peter Friese which reminded me that Windows does actually support symlinks via the mklink tool – so running up command as the local Administrator, going to the Samsung SDK folder, deleting the apps folder (after first moving my code where I wanted it to be!) and typing

mklink /D apps c:\code\samsung_tv_apps

has fixed my problem!

The browser in my Nintendo DSlite and 3DS is Opera.

I don’t use the desktop version of Google Talk, nor Windows Media Player so my most frequent exposure to Trident is probably via Skype. I almost feel sorry for the Microsoft IE team. Almost.

There is one DVD of Octonauts, which contains eight episodes. Another DVD is due next month containing another eight episodes. This will mean that 31% of this programme is available to buy.

There are eight Timmy Time DVDs totalling around 65 episodes. This means that around 83% of this programme is available to buy.

To my knowledge, the BBC have aired 100% of both these series.

A very quick look on popular, er, file distribution sites reveals about 50 episodes of Octonauts (96%), and I think every episode of Timmy Time (100%).

I want to buy stuff, and it isn’t even possible; yet it is available for free if I download it illegally. It’s been, what, five years now? Have we really not moved on?

After a few hours I’ve got a much better idea, and broadly, I’m not impressed. No URLs, No view-source and half the content I’ve read seems to be partial with a link through to the source website, but within the app so still no URLs or view-source. Very unsatisfactory.

When the iPad came out it got slated for being a consumption device and nothing more. That’s been shown to be false, but Currents takes that thought and runs with it. It’s the antithesis of what reading on the web should be about.

My Kindle Keyboard has 3G and I’ve used it, in the case of flat-phone-battery-syndrome, when out and about, to send emails to my family to let them know where I am, that I’m goin to be late, and more. I’ve used it to go on Facebook, and to read Hacker News (via http://ihackernews.com/). I think that yes, OK, it’s a shame that the absence of wikitravel means that this xkcd is no longer accurate, but the loss is greater than that – having such a cheap device with unfettered access to the internet is A Good Thing – I guess Amazon decided the bills just weren’t worth it.

On a more practical note, at least now all of my photos (which go to both Facebook and Flickr and now Plus depending on topic) are all backed up at an off-site location. The same can’t be said for the Facebook wall posts, although I do use the "Download your information" feature to take infrequent data dumps. Twitter is pretty much dead to me, so although I have historical backups, I’m don’t plan on taking any more.

Related to all this, I feel sad that my son will likely grow up in a world where licensing content will be more normal than owning it, which reminds me of this story.

I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.

If that didn’t eliminate enough options straight away, it would ideally auto-save every few seconds and allow tree-based note hierarchy. A couple of tools have come close over the years, such as WikidPad, Zim and KeepNote, but none have quite hit that sweet spot.

So, any suggestions? I am willing to pay!