Python for Series 60 PhonesSo the first steps in making your phone scriptable is now available.

Python for Series 60 is available for download from Nokia.

The very exciting thing about this is that it supports Bluetooth, HTTPLib and Cell based location access.

It is a matter of time (very short) before someone has built an IcyPole like app which can communicate with other phones using bluetooth, link to the network using http and determine its cell location automatically.

All this without ANY carrier involvement. Now if as a whole we were able to map the cell id to a lat/long we would have full location based services available in python without ANY carrier costs having to be incurred.

iMode Big Pond Movies
After quite of bit of work, Telstra has launched the iMode service I have been building for the last little while....Big Pond Movies on iMode.

The first version is aimed at people who are at a video store and want recommendations for movies to see. You can view the movie synopsis, see similar movies, save movies and see the highest rated etc.

The next version will allow current BigPond Movies subscribers to view their queue and return movies etc. via the service.

The Manolo, he has the advice for the wifey
The big feets

Manolo is without a doubt the best blog I have found this year.

AgentArts Good news
With a week to go until Xmas and our Christmas lunch to be held at the Flower Drum this week, we were very excited last week to close a long term contract and secure another significant investment from Nokia.

On the 24th Dec, it will be 6 years since we founded AgentArts, during which time we have been through the whole no money, get funded, get large VC funding, enjoy dot.com party excess, open overseas office, grow, shrink, struggle, get clients, be on call 24*7 for 3 years running.

So its great to get to the end of this year and have secured the company for 2005.

In terms of highlights, 2004 will be remembered for:
- Trip to Finland to present at Nokia
- Attending eTech in Florida
- Building a P2P Social networking app for the Nokia smart phones
- Doing a Java J2ME course
- Winning a huge client in Australia
- Watching our client's amazing success
- Getting rave reports from our clients
- Moving into a new office with "yummy" outlook
- Meeting amazing people

I'm sure I can look forward to plenty of travel, exciting meetings with interesting people and good work and hopefully make it another great year in 2005.

43 plus things
Yea!! I got an invite to the 43things beta from the kind robots at the Robot Co-Op.

Apparently I'm in the first 43 people invited which makes me kind of feel special in a funny geeky kind of way.

Lots of stuff to play with over the next night or two and feedback to be given.

Goal Achieved
Back in my university days I started to do weights at the gym and bought a home gym setup which I used for about 8 weeks along with one of those body building tablet program things...yes I was a vain boy....ok maybe was isn't the right word ;-)

Anyway, since then I've always had the goal of bench pressing my body weight. I'll bet I'm not alone in this as evidenced by the number of people who share my goal on 43things. Now only if they had a way of ticking off the goals because...

Today I achieved my goal. 75kg for 3 reps!! Yeah!!

I've been doing weights this year rather than running, swimming or riding and I've been enjoying it very much. Over the last 8 weeks I've been doing a new program from a Men's Fitness mag (I know I know...) and it has ben fantastic. 3 weeks cycles for a program have meant my body has adapted really really well with the weight increasing and my waist shrinking.