Obvious troll is obvious...

Yeah, it's definately a battery drain as it uses GPS at regular intervals to work out where you are; however, I'm going to keep running it as long as I can as there's an outside chance that this data might be able to convince certain operators (*cough* Vodafone *cough*) that their coverage in my area is not as wonderful as they claim it is.

This is a real shame IMHO; I've watched the Engadet video of the device in action and I have to say that compared to iOS or Android I'm seriously underwhelmed by the Harmatten UI - the underlying OS may well be superb, but with that current interface I can't see Joe Public taking much interest.

I recently discovered the joys of Subsonic; I have the Android client installed on my phone, and the iSub client on my iPod and the Subsonic server running on an old system at home. I now have a single repository for all of my music that I can access pretty much 100% of the time - if I know I'll be listening to, say, some Penguin Cafe Orchestra during the day I can select the album in the Android client and download it straight to the phone over my local WiFi before leaving home in about five seconds flat - I can even set the client to force the server to resample the files to a maximum bitrate if I'm connected via 3G. All of this means I can access whichever album/track I want to listen to out of my 500Gb (and growing) collection and store it in one place.

(Upton Sinclair, if you've never heard of him, was the coinventor of the Timex Sinclair -- he's not as well remembered as Wozniak, Jobs, or Gates, but he's far more quotable.)

Clever trick for a man who died in 1968...

The quote is definitely from Upton Sinclair (the American author), but you're conflating him with Clive Sinclair

The Market does definitely remember any purchases you make; I made the transition from an HTC Magic to an HTC Legend last year, and have flashed both devices with several ROMs in the process.

Whatever I've purchased is always listed on the My Apps tab.

Thank you for posting this; in the last half hour since reading your post I've downloaded and installed the Subsonic server on my home server and installed the client on my HTC Legend and it works perfectly! Definitely slinging some Euros to the developer for this!

My kids have Windows Live Family Safety installed on the PC that they have access to; I can remotely deny or allow access to websites and check their browsing behaviour no matter if they're using IE, FireFox or Chrome. I can even use it to restrict how much time they're spending playing games - although their machine is in the front room where both my wife and I can see what they're up to - and all Messenger friend requests have to be vetted by me.

It's not that I don't trust my kids - I do - but I don't trust the wider internet, and they're simply too young to be given unfettered access.

Apologies for replying to my own post, but the more I think about it something else occurs to me:

Back in my ZX Spectrum / BBC Micro gaming days, the availability of games was lower than it is now; I remember playing games to death simply because I'd spent the time and effort going down to my local WHSmith and forking over the £10.00 for a cassette. The other factor was the time and effort required simply to play the damn things; remember how long it took to actually load the game into your home micro from tape? Fiddling around with the head because the damn thing would fail to load after 10 minutes of waiting?

Nowadays, gaming is so instant and available that there isn't the compulsion to stick at a single game and see it through to completion

I can't speak for anyone else, but the main reason why I rarely complete games these days is 'Real Life'; much as my disposable income has disappeared with the arrival of children, so has my disposable time. Years ago I could fritter away hours at a stretch playing Civilisation, but no more. It's very rare that a game comes along these days that I can muster the enthusiasm for to invest time and effort in to complete.

The last game that I played through from beginning to end was "Enslaved: Oddesey To The West", which was an almost perfect title for me; the overall length of the game was quite short (the whole thing was completed over a couple of evenings), the learning curve for the controls was slight and it had a character-led story that I actually wanted to see through to the end. Generally though the sequence goes something like:

• Purchase new game and play for a few evenings when time permits
• Real Life gets in the way and game is not booted for a few weeks
• Arcane control system needs to be relearned
• Plot has become lost in the mists of time
• Cannot be bothered to retrain muscle memory / relearn the plot (such that it is), so game goes back on the shelf

GTA IV is sitting on my hard drive, barely touched - I liked what I played, but I just don't have the time to spend on it. Likewise Left 4 Dead, Mass Effect 2, Arkham Asylum and so on. It took me at least three attempts to finish Bioshock (and I'm really glad that I did), but that's one of the few exceptions. Nowadays I'm finding myself playing more and more 'casual' games (Cut The Rope, Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies mostly) rather than 'serious' titles - maybe after the kids leave home and before arthritis fuses my hands into impossible shapes I'll get time to play properly again.