It’s been about 5 years since I have last seen one of my favorite candies, in a different packaging though, but with the same old peppermint taste. The ingredients look like something that would usually be utilized in the production of pharmaceuticals, but nevertheless there’s something about these little edible rocks that makes my taste buds scream “more, damn it!” every time I see them squirming in my hand. Usually I have so much of these, I feel sick to my stomach, but it doesn’t bother anybody around me, since I’m oozing an unusually pleasant minty scent… and everybody likes peppermint, right?
Ingredients: sugar, starch syrup, natural flavor (menthol), colors (E102, E110, E124, E131, E151), glaze (E901).
Geez, I’ve gotta stop eating these… *puts a few candies in his mouth anyway*
October 24th, 2009
Yeah, it’s here, yes - it’s better, faster, prettier… but it still isn’t there yet… One can only hope for Microsoft getting their act together and stop relying on HTC’s TouchFlo or SenseUI, or Toshiba’s and SonyEricsson’s custom home screens and shells to put a fresh coat of paint on a old country house that is Windows Mobile…
I can understand Windows Mobile 7 is in the making, but why is it that hard to do some revamping on 6.5 as well until the great seven-point-oh arrives? Popup menus have a better and a much more finger friendly look, but what about scroll bars? To be honest, they look like “utter shayt” and take much underserved screen space. Buttons? Yeah, they’re better, but are still aranged in a stylus friendly manner instead of being finger friendly. Checkboxes? Don’t get me started… having large fingernails is the only thing that can prevent a WM user from reaching for the stylus when it comes to checkboxes and radio buttons. Why was so much effort placed in creating a new home screen (that most end users never get to see anyway) instead of rearranging and redesigning some UI elements inside the OS itself? Exiting a frond end GUI such as TouchFlo and playing with some advanced settings is like going from Windows 7 to Windows 3.11 in a nutshell – it’s that bad. A few gradient backgrounds, bigger screen widgets – properly arranged, and a nice screen drawing method would do wonders (it’s currently too slow and blocky, drawing one screen part at a time). It’s not THAT hard… is it? The start menu “honeycomb” icon arrangement really is finger friendly and esthetically pleasing, thumbs up for that… Kinetic scrolling, the new lock screen, app marketplace, beautiful icons, MyPhone, IE Mobile 6, Flash support and other new additions are good signs that Microsoft still has some punch in them, but they need to channel all that energy in a good spot, because OEMs are just not willing nor able to do that much customization to keep Windows Mobile 6.x going for a long time.
Also, why do some WM phones lack a 3.5mm audio jack? If Microsoft can mandate all new Windows Phones need a dedicated Start hardware button, why can’t it do something like this? Proprietary dongles suck.
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October 6th, 2009
It’s been about 5 years since I have last seen one of my favorite candies, in a different packaging though, but with the same old peppermint taste. The ingredients look like something that would usually be utilized in the production of pharmaceuticals, but nevertheless there’s something about these little edible rocks that makes my taste buds scream “more, damn it!” every time I see them squirming in my hand. Usually I have so much of these, I feel sick to my stomach, but it doesn’t bother anybody around me, since I’m oozing an unusually pleasant minty scent… and everybody likes peppermint, right?