Back on the 16th December, I mentioned that I use the WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin.  Here are the three reasons why.

Size
This is one of those times where small is good.  The Standard version of blog.wisefaq.com is 190kb.
The WordPress Mobile Edition is 6kb.
A 3000% difference!  Or to put it another way, the Standard version is 30 times larger than the Mobile version.  This smaller size means less mobile data charges.

Some individual page measurements:

Speed
blog.wisefaq.com pages load much quicker, as they are smaller.

Looks
On a Mobile phone, I prefer it over the mess of the page that Windows Mobile Internet Explorer, and BlackBerry Browser make of the page.

Standard version compared to WordPress Mobile Edition
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“What about Opera Mini?”, I hear you cry.

Opera Mini does a superb job of rendering the page, but because of speed and size (think mobile data charges), I prefer the WordPress Mobile Edition version.

You can download WordPress Mobile Edition here.

Been using Windows 7 for the last week.  Ever since I saw a series of Windows 7 posts over at Kevin Remde’s blog.

First impressions?  It’s a refined Vista.  It’s a lot more production ready in comparison to the Vista Betas I was beta testing back in 2006.

Now some people will tell you that Windows 7 is missing features, but I’ve not seen that.

EXCEPT FOR WMDC, Windows Mobile Device Center.  The replacement, Sync Center, doesn’t work either.

The WMDC team has past form for this.  An (almost working) WMDC for Windows Vista shipped after Vista was RTM’d.  It is a shame that an otherwise great Windows 7 experience has been spoilt by those WMDC team punks (Mel Sampat etc.).

I was greatly annoyed then, and I’m greatly annoyed now.

Update: the folks over at Xda-developers have the solution, un-install and re-install.

IBM
This is your suit

EDS
Many suits, pick one of our suits

CSC
Which suit would you like?

- George Bell

I liked George, and that was the theory during his reign.  But in the world of Desktop Management Software, it was CA Unicentre or nothing.