I NEED an iPhone

I'm about half way watching the iphone section of the apple keynote. The delivery by Steve Jobs is amazing - he is selling it to me big style (not that it needed much help). Up to that point I'd only seen pictures, and it looks sweet.

The features have a real wow factor though, and the whole interface, with scrolling, cover-art, accelerometer (which had me) but SMS and pinch - jesus!!

The fact that it all syncs so easily with the Mac (you'd guess) and that it has OSX. Glad I got my yahoo! Mail account before the mad rush

Also watching some of Leo's MacBreak videos,

Big Week

The biggest thing this week is that Nate's Birthday party happened. He is going to be 4 on Monday, but Saturday saw all his chums come round for a birthday tea and a few games. Everyone semmed to have a great time.

Its been an up and down week for inspiration for Project:365. Early in the week I turned to pictures of random objects that I fiddled with in Photoshop. I decided to make the rule with myself that this was OK if I took the photo on that day, as I think the project is about taking more photos.

Work has also been a bit of a roller coaster. The non-stimulating stuff ended and I now have a new project. The first task involves dividing a large drawing up into separate parts, so I've spent much oif my week on the floor, with some crayons, colouring in conveyors on a large A0 drawing!!

Has some good chats with Mark this week about work and other things, the highlight being Griff's Cottage. We knew that this was a project that he was taking on from knowing the area real well and the people that live there. I'd not realised it had turned into a TV series of its own though. Looks like Mike may have got himself an interview sorted out. Not spoken to him since so hope it went OK.

Sunday has also been busy, with long rehearsal for Guys & Dolls at the Brewhouse by Mellows. We went down and took some pictures and listened to act 1. I've also been getting into The Money Tree. It is all straight forward stuff, but reading it in black & white has been really enlightening. Just what I wanted at this stage of shaking up my finances.

Back to work

Had the normal 15 minutes staring at this screen trying to remember what the hell my password is!

After that it was a gradual ease into the norm - although work seems to be a bit sparse, so I'm taking my time. Hope that the pipeline of promised stuff opens up now the new year is here. Was good to here from Trapper and Mark on the emailo this morning.

Went to the gym at lunchtime, as part of my new thoughts for 2007. I've been a memner of quite a few gyms now, and it always makes me chuckle in January. Not sure whether its a months memberships as Christmas presents or just people living out their resolutions, but its always packed out in the first month of the year!

Siemens have now made the fasted network in the world (not from the Coventry office though). It runs at 107 GB/s, now that would be good for streaming HDTV!

500 posts and counting

Project:365 couldn't have started on a more boring day in the house! We have been busy packing the Christmas tree away. We normally try to do it quickly as Nate's birthday is at the start of January and its good to separate it from Christmas. I tried to eat all the "bad" things that were left in the house - but didn't realise quite how much stuff we had (I feel bad now too!) Also need to get into the return to work mindset. Christmas holiday this year has been brilliant, but seems to have flown by.

Happy New Year!

Project:365 (Prequel #2) - Christmas Day

Christmas Day over and it was brilliant. The kids didn't wake up too early after we'd been tracking Santa all day on NORAD tracks santa. We opened most of our presnts, then Mum & Dad came round. We had beef (not turkey) this year and Dad had arranged some party games. He produced some more fireworks. Aftre the second was was discharged (at about 5:45pm) a disgruntled neighbour, who stayed in the shadows at the bottom of the garden (so we don't know who it is), became very aggressive and threatening - Happy Christmas to you too!! We had to call off the fireworks, as we felt things would turn nasty. that kind of drew the evening to a conclusion really.