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  • Nov 6, 2011

    Cooking on Saturday

    Yesterday I made some cupcakes. We’ll enjoy eating these in lunches this week !😀

    Cupcakes on a plate

    The trick is after you make them to immediately put them in the freezer (otherwise there probably wouldn’t be any left!)

  • Nov 1, 2011

    Springtime in the garden

    Inspired by fellow .NET developer Bill McCarthy’s occasional blog posts on his garden, here’s some of the flowers blooming in our backyard at the moment.

    Lavender, roses, snapdragons, roses, roses, sweet peas, geraniums/pelargoniums, hollyhocks, dianthus and more roses.

    A bee on a lavender flower

    Iceberg roses

    White snapdragon flowers

    Pink rosebud

    Yellow roses

    Sweet pea flowers

    Pink geranium flower

    Red and white geranium flowers

    White geranium flowers

    Pink snapdragon flowers

    White hollyhock flowers

    Pink dianthus flowers

    Pink carpet rose

    Yes, we do have a few roses - most of which are coming into bloom right now. Also a bit of work when it’s time to prune them!

  • Oct 27, 2011

    Samsung Omnia 7 with firmware updates

    Today there were new firmware updates from Samsung for my Omnia 7 phone.

    Samsung Omnia 7 | Component | Original | “Mango” | Samsung Update | | — | — | — | — | | OS version | 7.0.7392.0 | 7.10.7720.68 | 7.10.7720.68 | | Firmware revision number | 2424.10.9.13 | 2424.11.8.2 | 2424.11.9.2 | | Hardware revision number | 3.15.0.4 | 3.15.0.4 | 3.15.0.4 | | Radio software version | 2424.10.19.12 | 2424.11.7.2 | 2424.11.9.1 | | Radio hardware version | 0.0.0.800 | 0.0.0.800 | 0.0.0.800 | | Bootloader version | 4.9.2.9 | 5.8.0.5 | 5.9.0.6 | | Chip SOC version | 0.36.2.0 | 0.36.2.0 | 0.36.2.0 |

    One thing I’ve noticed is that there’s now “Internet Sharing” in the settings page (aka tethering). Nice to see that added, not that I’ll necessarily use it.