technology I use...

Photo - tour de France 07 - Pentax body and lens

I mentioned the other day - my amusement at the pace of technological change and soon after I received an email from my friend and technology entrepreneur Rod Drury - he of Xero software in New Zealand http://www.xero.com/ - any how - when he had a blog...which ran for several years and was at times the most informative source of technology info on the web - he used to have a little feature about the type and make of the technology he was using...everyday - so he suggested that I should do something similar!

So tech-heads here goes:

My latest investment has been in a brilliant webpadbook thing from Acer - the Aspire One - this is small and light - it is no bigger than a pad of paper and about the same weight and is about the tenth of the cost of a Sony! I think I paid about £200.00 all up...go on take a look: http://www.acer.co.uk/aspireone I just need a nice red leather cover for it now...anyone?

Other than that I have had a Sony phone for years - the one I use right now is the K810 which is fully loaded and triband GPS linked..oh er!

My home PC system is a mix of Zwire/Netlabs the ubiquitous Dell server and a custom system made for me by Vision Computers http://www.visioncomputercentre.co.uk/ if you live in Wales then please use this company - they are both entrepreneurial and very, very good!

OK what else can I tell you? I have only ever used Pentax stills cameras as they take nice photos and my current expedition model has a very good anti shake feature...which is handy in some circumstances and I still have my very old film SLR. Although I notice most of the TV people I work with use Sony equipment.

As far as wheels goes - I have ridden Giant Mountain Bikes for a long time (I have a Team Issue) and last year splashed out and bought a road model from their range - both of which are faultless - it's just the old bloke on the saddle that falls off! (don't think they have a web site - so make a day out of it: Gateway Cycles Abergavenny are the people to visit)

I must write about the financial meltdown this week as everyone else is! so stay tuned and watch out for squirrels!

JHD

Oh and I nearly forgot..my drum kit is an Alesis DM5!