I think it’s safe to say that this blog is now officially dead. I don’t really want to declare it as such, but I really don’t see myself bringing it back to life any time soon, life is too busy, and I don’t actually have a whole lot to say here anymore anyways!
If you have been, thanks for checking in, maybe someday we will meet again!
This is just a quick test post using the wordpress plugin for my new iPhone.
I’m so in love with this phone it’s awesome and makes my life on the road a million times better and more productive, plus it keeps me entertained too!
Wow, this is pretty awesome news!! Google Australia have just announced that they are after launcing Street Views for lots of locations around Australia. I’ve just had a quick peek on Google Maps and I can see that they have covered the area around our apartment in Brisbane quite well, and I can’t wait to get home tonight and try this out in Google Earth on the mac. This is really, really exciting news though, especially as I should now be able to put together some mashups to show family and friends back home various places that I am day to day around Brisbane.
Oh man, I’ve waited for this weekend to come for a long time. The last 2 months in work have been completely hectic. Anyone who knows me knows that I am well used to exceptionally long hours and hard work, but I think that I can safely say that the last 2 months have been amongst the most hectic that I have ever worked.
Added to that, the last two weeks have just been frought with various unexpected problems that have cropped up on a number of our systems, and it seems like every time I fix one problem, another has been croppign up.
I don’t have anything special lined up for this weekend, but, I really can’t wait to get it out of here and just kick back and not think about work (other than for about an hour when I have to apply some server patches) for an entire weekend. That is until my alarm rings at 430 on Monday morning and I have to catch a red-eye to Sydney for a few days down there!
I wrote the other day about how much I want to get my hands on an iPhone, but, that until the day comes that I can just walk into an Optus store to buy one, without having to sign up for a contract and wait a few weeks on delivery like they’re currently offering, that I was going to wait and see if any other mobile company made a move. I was actually expecting 3 to sign a deal that would be cheaper and better than anything Optus, Telstra or Vodafone could offer.
Today, right from left of field comes the dark horse. Virgin Mobile (who are part of the Optus Group) have announced that they’re going to carry the iPhone with the following plans:
- Customers will be able to bag a 8GB iPhone 3G for $0 upfront if they sign a 24-month contract at $70 per month.
- For the $70 monthly fee, customers will receive $520 worth of calls and text, and 1GB of data download capacity.
- Customers can upgrade the monthly download capacity to 2GB by paying an additional $15 per month.
- 16GB iphone $100/month, $520 calls, 5GB data
Hopefully I’ll have a 16Gb white iPhone from Virgin over the next few days! 
I’m really disappointed that only today, after his death at the weekend, that I got around to watching Randy Pausch’s last lecture. I had heard of this before, but, given that it’s an hour and 16 minutes long, I never got around to watching it. Today, I decided to set aside the time, and suggest that you do too.
I’m starting to run out of patience. I’ve tried about 6 times to buy an iPhone in the Optus store in Brisbane. I’ve tried other stores outside of the city in what I thought would be quieter places, but, still no joy. I even tried the Apple store in Sydney last night to no avail (apparently you have to start queuing at 7am and you might have one by lunchtime there!).
Yes, I could sign myself up for a contract with Optus that would guarantee me a phone when stock came in, but, I’ve decided that until I can just walk into a store and pick one up, I’m going to hold out, in hope that perhaps 3 will announce a deal that they are carrying the iPhone with a data plan that rocks (yes, iPhone data plans in Oz suck!).
The longer it goes by, the harder it is not having one. In theory, given I’ve lived in London since the original iPhone went on sale, I’ve been living in a readily accessable market for a long time without having one, and it sucks! I might just have to bite the bullet this weekend and put my name down for one and wait on that call!!
So, I guess the below image is worth a bit of shameless self promotion! Managed to make it to flickr explore yesterday, which is the first time in a while that I’ve been there. Woke up one morning last week and the fog was shrouding the river and the Story Bridge just as the sun was coming up, decided to grab my camera and just rattle a few shots off from the balcony. Left the images sitting there for a few days until the other night when I done some work, and figured that a sepia tone to this would add some atmosphere and turn it into a really nice shot. Quite happy with how this turned out!
WOO!! Apple have just rolled out television to iTunes Australia! The news isn’t official yet but, it’s a very promising start. I’m not all that interested in TV shows myself, but, I really can’t wait until the iTunes movie store comes here, it’s going to make life so much easier for me! Roll on my plans to install an Apple TV and setup a whole media centre for myself at home!
Ooppss, for anyone trying to access this blog, or The Dublin Community Blog for the past few hours, you would have had a problem. Unfortunately, this was out of my control, but, hopefully everything has returned to normal for you now.
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