Maybe it's me, but before mobiles really took off people were, more often than not, on time (e.g. if they were coming round for dinner or whatever). Now, people think it's ok just to text to say they're running late and that, by having told me, somehow makes it ok.

Yeah, I've been using Handbrake to convert videos for my Hero.

@shallnot: Well, it's good for a bit of mental arithmetic:

@kassanu: Agreed.

No. I just don't see the need. My Hero's got the OTA update to 2.1 and everything's pretty smooth.

VOTE: WebEx

@Taldarin: I agreed with you even before you said "traveshamockery". Now I doubly agree with you.

@Oyabun: The way my screen was scrolling I just saw the top of the bad (cut off above the white vertical stripe) and I thought it was some budget Darth Vader outfit.

@el_Paraguayo: Ah. Looking at the comments on the Latedroid site it says:

@Hearthatvoiceagain supports Channan's Law: Yup, tried the barcode scanner. Didn't find it.

Is this for later versions of Android? Can't currently see it in the market on my Hero (UK).

Now that I've repurposed my parents' old Dell Dimension desktop into a MythTV PVR I'm ready to take on more tasks.

@Eric Geller: I've just started turning my parents' old Dell Dimension 4500s into a MythTV box.

@gyronic: Yes it is. Admittedly it's highly leveraged but that doesn't stop it being an investment.

@jupiterthunder: Indeed it is Ed.

Thanks everyone. I'll give this a go.

May be a dumb question, but here goes:

@jupiterthunder:

@el_Paraguayo:

Ok. So if I click 'View' it seems to divert to a Google Docs page which, helpfully, is blocked by my firm.