Tom Gidden

The reason I haven't been updating this blog regularly for a long time is twofold: firstly, I haven't had anything particularly profound to say; and secondly, I've been busy working on 4D Sudoku, which has now launched.

Back in December 2006, I wrote a post about cancelling my decade-old Orange UK phone contract, in favour of Three. Now I'm off again. I finally gave into the lure of iPhone. As a Mac (power?) user for eight years, and owner (and destroyer) of many of their products, the absence of iPhone in my life is fairly conspicuous. I always swore that I wouldn't buy the iPhone 2G, though.

(NOTE: Make sure you read the comments for this post, as there's a better way to get around the 64-bit/32-bit problem without having to compile things. --Tom)

An old colleague of mine has persuaded me to release an implementation of an "inverted index"-based search library, written solely as MySQL Stored Procedures. Our combined work is now available on Google Code.

I've been a dedicated user of EyeTV for almost two years, to the point that I no longer watch TV on the big screen in the living room. Instead, I watch almost exclusively on my iBook. Back in May 2006, I wrote a post about EyeTV 2.2 and its shortcomings. Today, Elgato have released EyeTV 3.