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Want organic veg?

If you live in the uk and want good organic produce delivered to your home then try Riverford (http://www.riverford.co.uk). I'd been using Abel & Cole but started to find that their fruit and veg quaility was really going down hill.

I received quite a few orders where the contents were mouldy or caked in mud. I also found that salad leaves were limp and the fruit very bitter.

In contrast Riverford has sent high quality items and a great selection. I'm really impressed! If you're an Abel & Cole customer I recommend trying Riverford, I'm sure you'll agree they're superior.

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del.icio.us -> delicious.com

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The Migration

After years of using Microsoft technologies I've decided it's time to try something different. My main reason for change is lack of inovation by MS... and well... Vista.

My plan is to use my laptop purely for development, so I'm going to install Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, and connect remotely to work.

My base machine will be an iMac running OSX, having used mac before I have confidence that this setup will suit my needs more than a pure MS solution.  I'm going to post my experiences during the transition.

More to follow.

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iPhone 3G

Well I finally got my iPhone 3G here in the UK thanks to carphonewarehouse (a special no thanks to O2) - a few observations:

1. It's bigger than the original phone (now my LV case doesn't fit... doh).
2. The build quality isn't quite as good, there's an imperfection in the case, sounds picky but it's an expensive piece of kit so I expected better.
3. The call sound quality is much better even in low signal situations.

I've yet to test battery life and 3G performance as I'm on my WiFi network at the moment.

Overall I like the new design but it could've been better, I'm looking forward to the 3G speeds though :)

iPhone obsessive over and out.

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iPhone

Is it wrong to want an iPhone 3G?  Here in the UK they're apparently in very short supply, a problem compounded by O2 (the UK iPhone carrier).

I received a text message from O2 at 7:30am on Monday inviting me to order my iPhone 3G online (at 8am).  Already being an iPhone user I assumed the early sign up was exclusively for existing customers... WRONG, they actually invited everyone to go online and order, new and existing customers alike.

Consequently the website that handles upgrades crashed, personally I couldn't believe the whole situation had been handled so badly, a few points:

1.  02 had a "sign up for interest" form on their site, they therefore knew how many people were likely to hit the site.
2.  The site was built in such a way that it would never have coped with a high volume of users (there was no session management and lots of flashy graphics).
3.  The fail over page (designed to show if the main site was overwhelmed) in fact resulted in an error when the form on it was submitted.

Coming from a web development background I find it hard to believe that O2 went to market with such a poorly designed system. Granted the site may well have been developed and deployed in a rush (most web development projects are, but that's a different rant), however, if you are aware of shortcomings (which any kind of load testing would have revealed) why then send a text message and email to all potential users telling them to visit the site.  A situation made worst by the "first come first served" propaganda, ensuring panic amongst the masses.

I hope lessons were learnt, however, I doubt they were, if only my clients had such low standards, my job would be easy!

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API

A bit nerdy, but I hope posterous expose an API, I'd love to use this functionality for micro blogging and updating my site on the go.

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