I’ll be in London from Sunday afternoon on the 26th of October. I don’t know what I’m doing or where I’ll be staying, but hopefully I can catch up with at least someone. 
The appointment at the Passport office is at 9:50am on the Monday morning. I’ll be catching a bus back to Taunton whenever that has finished.
To everyone who sent a card, letter or present to us (and Galen!) on the momentous occasion of his birth, I’d like to say thank you.
If you haven’t yet received a thank you card in reply, I apologise. You will get one eventually.
But in the mean time, this little man says thank you.
Also, that little man is now an Aussie. I’ll be going in to London in a few weeks to get him a passport.
My boy is growing like crazy. He’s now topped 16 pounds.
A few weeks ago he made his first almost-successful attempt at crawling. He lay on the bed, on his stomach, and pushed himself across the bed with his knees and his face.
He hasn’t done much movement like that since, but he’s now got enough strength in his arms to hold his head up. It’s only a matter of time before he’s racing all over the place.
He also likes using my Macbook Pro.
Finally, after a wait of a couple of years, I have an iPhone.
When the original phone was announced I was working at IMG, and though none of us knew for sure, we had a fair idea that it was probably our hardware powering the graphics.
The cost to begin with was quite prohibitive, so I had to make do with my ancient Nokia. When the 3G iPhone was announced this year, with GPS and a much cheaper price tag, I could finally justify getting one, so I waited eagerly for the UK release, constantly glaring at my clunky old phone that only did SMS and calls.
It took me a while to get my hands on one. With work, and Mum and Nick over here, it wasn’t really feasible to spend hours waiting in line outside an O2 store. Whenever I was able to make it in to Taunton they’d already sold out, so I had to constantly check their website, hoping that their stock would be replenished when I was able to make a trip in. Finally, last Wednesday, they received a delivery, so I left work early and raced in to pick up my new 16GB phone.
Am I happy? Oh yeah. I love my iPhone and everything it can do. GPS. Google maps. Internet and email everywhere. It really is an incredible machine. I was surprisingly impressed with just how nice the phone sounds when making a call.
But the key to the phone is the internet and all the available applications.
I have a huge number of RSS feeds in NNW on my desktop. Being able to read them in NNW on my phone is amazing. Waiting in line now is actually fun.
I use Twitter a lot, and Twinkle is a great client. I use Twitterific sometimes when I need a certain piece of functionality that Twinkle doesn’t have, but so far Twinkle is faster, smoother, and easier to read.
The iphone isn’t all play though. I’ve started working on my own application, and soon I’m going to begin development on a game. It’s a great device to develop for, and I’m really looking forward to spending some time doing non-Filemaker development, and being able to dust off some OpenGL ES.
I’ve also been playing around with the camera a bit, so expect to see an occasional random photo uploaded to flickr.
If you’re thinking about getting a new phone, please at least consider the iPhone. It’s a game changing device, well worth at least a thought, plus I’d like you to buy my software when I finally release it.
(this post was entirely written on my iPhone)
