Just a quickie here as I believe in praise as well as complaints

A couple of years ago I had an issue with Asda’s online shopping experience as it forced me to use IE rather than my preferred Firefox. I tried again today and I am pleased to say they now state their website is best viewed in IE8 and FireFox 3. Hurray for progress.

I was actually using Chrome and it also looked fine.

So well done Asda for bringing your website up to date; there’s no excuse for big companies not to support all the major browsers.

The latest gossip/buzz or whatever seems to be how Android (specifically Nexus One Google phone) is an ‘iPhone killer’. I don’t want an iPhone killer, I want a high quality phone that not only makes calls and sends texts but keeps me in touch with my clients, colleagues and friends through social networking. I want a phone that works 99% of the time. I want a phone that I can browse the net on - properly. I want apps that will direct me to local amenities & businesses, that tell me what’s playing at the local flicks, that help me keep my online & offline life in synch - I want a phone that is fun.

I thought the BlackBerry Storm (mk1) was that phone, and it is to an extent, but it reboots itself on a whim (usually when I need to reply urgently to a text or need to make an important call) and needs manual reboot regularly to cure its quirky behaviour (keyboard appearing in the wrong place, messages refusing to delete and so on). Not good enough when I am trying to run a business. So that promising relationship will be coming to an end once my contract is up.

I am now looking at Android as my next phone OS. There seems to be a few handsets coming onto the market and I currently have an old G1 to test out. I have two good people I know who have Android based phones and love them. I am hoping to fall in love too…