I have Tonsillitis, I’m feeling sorry for myself, I can’t stomach real work, so I did this, in the child-like hope it will come true (today if possible). If anyone needs me I’ll be wallowing in my dream like world ruled by Disney characters and President Steve Jobs.
Well it may not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but here are a few of my favourite - new - things…
iPhone 4
As to be expected, this evening (in our timezone at least) Apple announced iPhone 4. “This Changes Everything Again”. Now my iPhone 3G looks mega old and rubbish. A few major breakthroughs - a brilliantly high resolution screen, 5 megapixel camera front and back (with led flash and light censor on back), video chat on WiFi + HD video editing directly on phone. Sounds amazing. Looks amazing. Definite yes to upgrading - glad I skipped the 3GS now.
Torchwood - New Global Series
Purely by chance I visited the Torchwood site today to find announcement (dated today) that a new series has been commissioned by BBC Worldwide and the production team is to be led by none other than Russel T. Davies. John Barrowman returns as Capatain Jack Harkness, along with Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper and some new faces. Can’t wait.
HTML5 & CSS3
Although not particularly new - and still along way from being universal - HTML 5 and CSS3 have taken a notable leap forward, with Apple’s heavy backing (no doubt because they hate Flash). See this new page posted by Apple of just a taste of some of the amazing things we can’t yet do because all those (majority) Internet Explorer users can’t see yet: http://www.apple.com/html5/
For kicks see this neat site currently shows HTML5 readyness - even Safari 4 hasn’t ticked all the boxes yet, but it’s come along way. http://html5readiness.com/
Now who says I only post half naked men, funny videos and silly cartoons…
This is an apologetic catchup post due to my lack of bloggage recently, I could say that I’m really busy running a business and exam revision for University - but we all know that students don’t really do anything.
First of all, what a mint couple of episodes of Shameless. I love Mickey more than ever, and yes I agree you do look ‘propa fit’ in unifrom - and Paddy “You’ll always be a bitter cunt”.
Back to work - As students do best, I’ve been getting totally hammered, eating tons of junk food, retaking failed exams (due to the hammered part) and doing tons loads of assignments+revision+ procrastination. Thank god the years nearly coming to an end.
In other areas of spent some business profit on a shiny brand new spanking Sony Vaio. Yes folks - I didn’t buy a MacBook Pro. Why - because they don’t have a full HD 16:9 aspect ratio screen or BlueRay. I was also less than impressed with the spec of them - where has the wow factor gone Apple?!
Back to TV realm - and you’ve really gotta love Brothers & Sisters. It really is an amazing TV show. Nora is the best character for me, closely followed by Kitty, Kevin and Scotty. Although I’m not a huge fan of his character, you’ve also gotta love Rob Lowe - fit, clever and cute = perfect.
I find it interesting that in Brothers & Sisters there is such a diverse range of political differences - Republicans(conservatives) & Democrats(liberal/labour). What’s admirable is that Kitty & Robert (the conservatives) are nothing like our Conservative party. Unlike prize twit David Cameron (despite what he might want you to think), Kitty & Robert are for gay rights (gay marriage, gay adoption etc etc) and small businesses. Unforutnatley if the conservatives get in, we are at worst going to return to a society of prejudice where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, best case scenerio we just won’t progress at all! Please please please vote Labour - Liberal Democrats will not get in (due to our voting system) and we need our nukes until everyone else agrees to get rid of theirs!
Thanks for your time. This has been another form of procrastination whilst I’m listening to the soundtrack of Hairspray attempting to revise whilst drinking lot’s of CocaCola and Milk Chocolate Digestives resulting in failure of test tomorrow and excessive weight gain. Life’s just brill :P
Apple (my favourite brand of all time) introduced iPad this week. My initial opinions of the device where basically why?! But I am now seeing more and more reasons to get one. 1) I don’t like taking my netbook everywhere with me, it is actually as Steve Jobs would say “clunky”, with an iPad I could just stick it in my bag along with my other pads, books etc. I came to my conclusion after realising that actually for most things my iPhone is just fine, and I only really need a laptop when I’m going on long journeys or away on holiday. At the moment I use a netbook to bridge that cap. But it’s slow, the keyboard is terrible (constantly hit the wrong keys) and the screen size isn’t desirable for a standard operating system (particularly vertically). iPad fixes all of this, and it also has the added benefit of all the features of the iPhone (bar the phone) IE touch screen and motion sensor mainly.
Add to wish list: 1 iPad.
I’m (coming) to a point where I really need to max out the memory and space on my iMac – and a few copies of Snow Leopard wouldn’t hurt either. Now if I still had a Mac Pro I could slip another hard drive in and some extra ram – no probs and no need to replace, could add to what I have. With an iMac – I have to replace them (so that means backing up and restoring a lot of data) – and then I’ve reached the maximum capacity of the machine so no future upgrade available.
So at the moment I’ve decided to shuffle with external drives until I can afford my next Mac which will come with what I need for now standard. The dilemma then is firstly which one to get and whether to get it sooner or later when a newer model comes out :/ It seems I might be just about on the right timeline for the next generation iMac – but should I invest in a better lappy first?
This is a mini book that I did for my final project in Media and Visual Communication in 2008. Click to view or download (Large PDF).
