A few months ago, something wonderful happened in my life. A new network family member arrived – a shiny, new Nokia N82. I named it Lazerbeak, after one of the smaller, more tenacious Decepticons. That phone did everything. I could check email, Tweets, it would download podcasts automatically for me, it was WiFi ready. I could send images directly to Flickr, Picasa or TweetPic and video blog straight from the phone. And last night I lost it. I don’t know whether it was stolen, or if I lost it and then it was stolen. It doesn’t really matter, I’m still equally angry with myself either way.

I loved that phone. But at least my contract ends in 2 weeks and then I’ll be able to get a new phone.

Computer animation studio Pendulum have made amazing developments in facial animation. Check out Pendulum’s demo video (amazing!) and Pendulum’s website.

Wridea is an ‘Idea management service and collection of brainstorming tools’. Sounds neat, like an online document collaboration tool but tweaked a bit. Have a look, I haven’t yet.

Twist is a Twitter trend monitoring tool. See (and compare) what trends are being talked about over time – just for fun try Beijing, Olympics and Tibet .

And finally a Coding4Fun article: A low-cost DIY multi-touch solution. It’s only a matter of time before we do this!

(Coding4Fun is a blog by a few Microsoft employees who find weird and unusual things to do with .Net or other languages.)

And finally, a video I think we can all relate to.