February, 2011....
Yes, February has arrived... A cold, hard winter slowly releases it grip. But in the mobile world, the heat is on. Since this blog was last updated, Android has moved on from being the challenger to being THE midstream - but a midstream which is turbulent, turbid, and even slightly dangerous for those who tests its waters.


And so, it is perhaps befitting that this blog should wake up from a long winter's sleep... no, make that one winter's, one summer's, and one more winter's sleep. "For Winter is the season of ghosts.... in this season of frosts and in these long hours of darkness. We must treat with them calmly and civilly, before the snows melt, and the cycle of the seasons begins once more." 
So, let the ghosts of winters past fade, and look forward to a new spring.

...and rightly, just the other day, a major gate was passed: Android 3.0, a.k.a. HoneyComb, a.k.a. the iPad challenger, was presented to a larger extent than ever before. If it was not obvious before, it now ought to be perfectly clear that Act I of Android is over, and without intermission, we are now right at the start of Act II.... And the scene has shifted. This is no longer the Smartphone Portrait face, with the one-pane, one-mode, one-app needle's eye. This is the Dynamic Glass, moved by touch, space as place.... There is only one lesson right now:

Erase. Rewind. Relearn. Redo.