Once again delaying my tour of a particular stretch of the coast of Tenerife due to a lack of aerial imagery that I can use, Video Podcast 3 is similar to Video Podcast 2 in that it involves an early version of an Android port on a Windows Mobile device. Video Podcast 2 featured touchphone from 2008 (the HTC Touch Diamond), whereas Video Podcast 3 features a touchphone from 2009, the Snapdragon-powered HTC HD2. If the Touch Diamond could be considered a sibling of devices such as the Hero, the HD2 is a sibling of the EVO 4G, Nexus One, Incredible and Desire.

Anyway, that's enough preamble. This video podcast, like the last one, is more rushed than my first one, and I make use of music I didn't write in this one - Hiding in a Shadow, White Evening and Born Already are by remaxim of ccMixter.org though, of course, the Emptosoft Background music and Emptosoft Logo from previous video podcasts are my own.

The video podcast is titled "Android on a HTC HD2" and is 10 minutes and 51 seconds long (I have a reasonable play with Android). The Android ROM I use is Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, and can be downloaded here, and requires the automatic backlight adjustment in Windows Mobile to be turned off as well as a T-Mobile US-based HD2 ROM to work properly/at all. If you want to keep an eye on progress with Android or Linux in general on the HD2, point your browser here. Download links:
- Windows Media Video - Small (9.61MB)
- Windows Media Video - Large (42.9MB)
- MP4 - Small (11.0MB)

If you don't want to download the video podcast, you can watch it here:

The website of the month for July 2010 is this article on rubber ducking on the Nokia Qt Developer Network's website, suggested by bencord0. Rubber duck debugging, also known by various other descriptions such as having a cardboard programmer, helps programmers with basic debugging by involving them explaining their code to an inanimate object - the concept originally comes from programmers explaining their problematic code to another programmer and, while doing so, spotting mistakes themselves with no input necessary from the programmer the code is being explained to (it therefore makes sense, to avoid wasting the time of others, to replace the programmer having the code explained to him/her with an inanimate object).

The website of the month for June 2010 is the well-known and respected XDA Developers. The website is famous for its forums which feature, along with tips and information, cool applications and ROMs for phones that improve upon or change what can be found in the official ROMs for phones. XDA Developers really should have been the website of the month many years ago, but I was waiting for an appropriate moment - now that their main website has been improved, they're partnering with PDAdb.net and, most importantly, they're moving onto a new era with the departure of Flar, who has been the admin for over 4 years. XDA Developers is an enormous website which deals with both Windows Mobile and Android devices, with a bias towards HTC's devices and is one of the largest (if not the largest) and oldest online mobile device communities, though there are reasonable alternatives around if you somehow get bored of XDA...

Ross Anderson is a very clever guy and a good lecturer - he was one of the authors of the "Chip and PIN is Broken" paper. Indeed, when demonstrating my group project (no, that's not me presenting it but yes, that is my HD2) earlier this year he seemed quite interested in the details of the project and I enjoyed explaining it to him and justifying our various design decisions while reflecting on the difficulties we encountered. Here Stephen Fry interviews him about the Y2K bug. Enjoy!

Yes, you heard me. If you are based in the UK, get out there and vote for the Liberal Democrats. I shall elaborate later today (just hoping to catch early voters at the moment).

Update: 22:10 (Voting is over now):
Clearly the current Labour government needs to be retired so that it can be refreshed (I do feel that Gordon Brown is unable to take the country in the direction he wants because he has been a senior figure for so long and perhaps supported Tony Blair more than he should have), and the Conservatives will be the government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. Therefore, the only party that can realistically bring change for the better is the Liberal Democrats. Before the election campaign, most people didn't even know who Nick Clegg was, whereas the television debates have helped to show off both Nick and the policies of the Lib Dems (as they are often called) to the British public - consequently the Liberal Democrats have risen from the perennial third party in British politics to a serious contended for this election (indeed, they were even the most popular party at one point recently, according to several polls). Newspapers and even celebrities have switched their loyalties to the Lib Dems, including people involved in comedy such as Tim Minchin (who I did a post about recently) and possibly, by implication, Graham Linehan (creator of shows such as Father Ted and The IT Crowd) (I offer you this information not because I think you should use celebrities as inspiration for your vote but, rather, because their comedy exposes their views and the way in which their mind works, whether or not you feel your views align with theirs will tell you to an extent, whether or not you are likely to want to vote for the same party). Even the internet in general seems to support Nick - I highlighted abuse of David Cameron several months ago, but here is just a taste of the Lib Dem support.

I could go on for ages about various issues, but nobody likes reading through a huge amount of text on a blog, so comment if you want me to talk about more stuff.