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Old Sigs

Posted by on January 5, 2009 No comments

Been trying to remember some of my old email signatures. The only 2 I remember so far are:

“Clarity comes from reading and with it understanding”

“Lifes a joke, question is who’s the butt?”

The former was me trying to be profound (I think, who knows now it was from nearly 15 years ago) though I do think it’s true. If you truly read something and consider it then it will become clear and you will gain understanding.

The later I still hold to be true, life is like a giant joke at times, the question at any moment is who is the butt of that joke. Often it’s felt like me, with all the things that have happened in my life :)

Happy New Year

Posted by on January 1, 2009 No comments

Had planned something else for posting but that will have to wait for now.

Instead, Happy New Year to all the read or come across this blog.

I hope that 2009 brings the things you hope for.

and if anyone happens to have a spare couple of grand, give it to me please :) I’d love to go to WWDC this year in SF.

*grin*

iPhone in Action

Posted by on December 29, 2008 No comments

Today, just as Toby, Mareike and I where leaving the house to head up to Hamburg, a DHL guy turned up and handed me a chunky envelope from Manning. It turns out, when I later opened it, that it was my free copy because I was a reviewer of the in progress manuscript.

I had started as the technical editor on this book and was going to do the indexing. Unfortuantly I feel quite ill back in late October and wasn’t sure how long it would take to recover. So, regretfully, I pulled out after doing the first chunk of the tech editing of the book.

Reading through the acknowledgments I had a plesant surprise (though missing from the reviewers list hey ho) when I found this quote:

Beyond that, tech editors are crucial to the success of a book like this, so we want to thank our original tech editor, Robert McGovern, who caught minutia that we weren’t even aware of.

His encyclopedic knowledge of the newest iPhone releases was awe-inspiring.

My thanks to Shannon and Christopher for the compliment.

Hopefully I will manage to post my thoughts on the book in the next few days. Want to have a gander over the finished version first :)

Ouch

Posted by on December 23, 2008 No comments

Pardon for the language but fuck that hurts.

I’ve been awake for over an hour and a half now because I ate to late last night and snacked on crisp sticks and it has aggrivated the sore / whatever exactly it is in my asophygus. My own fault really but wasn’t quite expecting that.

Thankfully it has eased off now but boy does it bring tears to my eyes. Looks like I won’t be out tomorrow to get the last of the presents I wanted to get.

Fuck on so many levels. I cannot wait for this to go.

Tree Pics

Posted by on December 21, 2008 No comments

Toby and Mareike. When Bob was grabbing the lights they found our Xmas hats and stockings for the fire place. For whatever reason the kids decided to put them onto their feet, which was cute.

Next up, for a sense of scale, are the kids standing beside the tree. As I said we had to cut about 6 to 8 inches off to get it to fit properly under the celling. Even now with the star on there is only about 3 or 4 inches spare.

Next is the tree lit, in the dark (which the iPhone coped with fairly well I though)

This time with the main light on :)

Finally this is the completed tree … well mostly complete Toby wants to put a few more paper chains on it.