“this country, once great(?), is a pit of inequality, of crime and of desperation. And you can blame whoever you like, and try to fix it in anyway you see fit, but I tell you this with utter conviction - Once I have swelled my universities coffers for one final year, I will be taking my educated, intelligent, success hungry self to a country which deserves, and values me. I used to be proud of my country, and extoll its virtues to people who dared speak ill of it, but they were right, in spirit if not in the degree of their condemnation.
I would be happy to pack a case this day, and leave to never set foot on this infected soil again.”
Given the painfully awful process of actually getting an iPhone to call my own, it reaaly needed to be good in order for that process to have seemed worthwhile. Luckily, it doesn’t dissapoint.
Having been in an iPhone-less Japan for the best part of a year, the original iPhone passed me by completley. And so many of my observations would have been pertinent to the iPhone as a product range, not just this latest iteration of the hardware and software within.
The most startling diference the iPhone has made is to my MacBook Pro. I used to have it switched on all the time, ready to check emails, feed read and browse. I now do all of those things on my phone. And the only limitation I’ve really been concerned by, is battery life. I’m using it far more as a PDA than as a phone, and I’m needed to charge it daily to ensure it doesn’t die on me. I’m thinking I’ll need to buy a small, rechargable charging dealie soon.
Overall, the 3G iPhone is undoubtably the best mobile phone I’ve ever used, but it’s also the best MP3 player I’ve ever used, the best portable video player I’ve ever used and the best PDA I’ve ever used. Not bad then.
A song I wrote a few days before leaving Japan to come back to England. The idea was to make it sound quite upbeat and positive, whilst having a message conveying the utter hopelessness of England. I hope you like it.
I just found out that you can filter your iTunes music by rating, just by typing asterisks in the search field. Awesome.
Video of me playing ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Sam Cooke. Recorded using iMovie, and Garageband, with added superfluous vocal sillyness
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Messing around in Photoshop recreating the apple remote, and it turned out pretty well. Hence I turned it into a wallpaper. Head on over to flickr to view it in it’s original size, and download it should you so please.
Also, did anyone else notice that the bits of photoshop CS3 which used to disappear all of the time, don’t disappear all of the time since the 10.5.3 update?
When the majority of your friends leave the country, you tend to find you have a bit more time to yourself. That being the case, I spent a little of that time-wealth today recording a cover of ‘Redemption Song’ by the peerless Bob Marley. The usual disclaimers about technical and performance quality should be assumed.