Wow, it's been nearly 7 months since my last blog entry and im not going to apologise about not blogging since thats become such a cliche thing to do.

A bits happened over the last...oh month or 2.

TrackMe

Over at SportsDo we've released a beta of our new social tracking platform called TrackMe. This is aimed at anyone whose after tracking themselves and sharing their location with their friends. You can also aggregate geodata from other places like geocoded photos from Flickr and show them in one place. I've overheard several people talking on nights out about how their phone has GPS (usually the N95) and others asking if they can find their friends...well with TrackMe this becomes possible. You can TrackMe here, or if you've got a Java based phone with GPS then signup and give it a go. If you haven't got GPS you can manually enter your location - so there is really no reason not to give it a go.

LiveNet

On the side I've been working with Scott Lovegrove on a managed library, called LiveNet, wrapping the Windows Live APIs, which was alpha released recently. Head over to codeplex to check it out and check out Scotts post over at LiveSide.

Interview with Mark Johnston

MarkJ asked me some questions about being in the Imagine Cup all those years ago.

New PC

The last time I touched my desktop with an upgrade was sometime back in the dark ages (2003) so I've felt obliged to update the poor thing, and by update I mean build a whole new machine so this one can be used as a Windows Home Server.

My current spec PC is

• AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.08GHz)
• 1GB Ram
• ATI Radeon 9600 256mb GPU

The new 'beast'

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor
• ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP AiLifestyle Series P35 Socket 775 Socket eSATA 8 channel Audio ATX Motherboard
• PowerColor HD 3850 256MB GDDR3 256bit Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card
• Antec P182 Black SPCR Advanced Super Mid Tower - No PSU
• Antec TruePower Trio 550W PSU - With 3x 12v Rails and 120mm Fan
• 2 x Kingston 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ecc CL5 Unbuffered 1.8V
• LiteOn LH-20A1S 20X SATA DVD±RW/DL Black Bare Drive - OEM
• Raptor WD740DFD 74GB SATA 10KRPM 16MB Cache - OEM

I'm hoping I will see a slight improvement from the upgrade. It's my Christmas present to myself....and birthday and hannukah and divali and eid for the next 2-3 years.