Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

Finally I've updated my own little piece of internet real estate. It's only taken 7 years to get round to it. As fun a project as it was, developing my own ActionScript 1.0 3D engine all those years ago, the old site ( www.uk79.com ) is a little dated now to say the least, with an entrance page, recommendations for processors and screen resolution, total neglect for accessibility and search engines, so on and so forth. It was all so cutting edge in the early 21st century, at a time when Flash and animation was going to rule the www, but it was definitely time to revamp and update. jayhollingum.com still needs a bit of work and a few tweaks to it, but it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to maintain and develop further.

Looking forward to the release of the  Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 , it seems there's still a little bit of mystery as to it's release date. If SE leave it much longer then newer better Android phones are going to be out, which is a bit of a shame as it looks like the X10 could revive Sony's fortunes somewhat in the smart phone arena. It was good to see Sony going a little open source by using the Android OS, opening it up to the Android Market  and also ditching their own memory sticks in favor of the MicroSD format. The only disappointing thing is that it looks likely to be released with Android 1.6 and not 2.0 or 2.1. Hopefully it can be updated to the newer version of the OS. Release dates for the phone vary from 19th February on play.com  19th Feb on play.com, to  22nd April on expansys.com . Latest news reports rumour 1st March as written on mobiletoday.co.uk . Sony say only that it will be launched in Q1 of 2010. Either way, if SE hang aro...