After months and months of waiting, my aviation course starts on the 12th of Feb! After 5 years of not flying, it’s going to be quite interesting.

Yes, Windows Mobile 6.1 has sneaked out the door. I’ve spent the last week hacking it together to make a great ROM for the Dopod 838/HTC Hermes series of phones. It’s damn fast, and very stable. Grab if from the Dopod Page.

As a mainly bugfix release to fix the missing Calculator on Release 4, you can now download Release 5.

On the radar is a version of Windows Mobile 6.1 with a number of improvements/changes over Windows Mobile 6.0 - however at the moment there still one or two issues that stop me from releasing it. If you really wish to beta test it, contact me via email.

I’ve put together another update for my replacement ROM for the Dopod 838 Pro and compatible line of phones. Release 4 contains the following changes:

• Mapped button 5 press to voice dial.
• Added voice dialling to Appbuttons.
• Added fix for scrolling slowness in Pocket IE.
• Changed keyboard skin to match theme.
• Unbundled OS ROM from Radio ROM due to popular request. You can now choose your own radio version.

You can get the updated ROM and view the full details of the release here.

After having the Google Adsense scheme on this site for a couple of months now, I really have to ask myself - is it worth it. After looking at the stats of the site, I have displayed over 10,000 ads to people visiting, and earned about $25USD from 83 clicks.

That works out to be a less than 1% success rate for advertisers.

This also means that I don’t get enough out of it to even cover my expenses in putting up this web site!

I’ve decided to try something different. You will now notice a PayPal donate icon on the sidebar. If you find something useful on my site, feel free to send something through - anything. This will help me offset costs to keep this (and other) sites running.