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Old 10-07-2008, 22:51   #61
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You have 4,200 seconds left. Or you could just claim you were working on Alaska/Hawaii time today.
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Old 11-07-2008, 00:22   #62
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Wednesday 9th July



A long day writing and sorting out random bits of work. By around 11 I gave up and decided to take a break. Its been a few weeks since I sat down with my 360 and I've missed it. I had a quick play on Soul Calibur on XBLA and loved it. Took me straight back to '99 when it came out on the Dreamcast. Awesome fun. After I loaded up GTA4 and went on a crime spree. Nothing quite like random mass murder. I spent about half an hour making cops fly from the blades on my helicopter. I couldn't stop

Thursday 10th July



Another one of those days. I got the writing I needed to finish done and submitted. After I noticed my phone battery had died, again, and set it to charge. Typically I had missed a call. My 2pm photoshoot that was to take place on top of Radio Merseyside had been cancelled due to health and safety. I only got this at 1pm as I was just leaving thanks to my phone. So I had to quickly find out if I could go on top of the Echo Arena, but I couldn't contact the right person. In the end I figured I'd head into town and see if there was anyone around looking Beatlesish, as its Beatles Day. I needed that photo. As you can imagine there wasn't a single person. Through a stroke of luck I bumped into my 2pm photoshoot at the Rat & Parrot. They managed to move the gig there instead. In the end I got some nice photos of 'The Beatelles' performing to the city of Liverpool. Just what I wanted. All in all one of those days where it starts off being really annoying and ends ok.
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Old 11-07-2008, 16:38   #63
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Huh no way, cool I had no idea that was coming up.
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Old 12-07-2008, 01:41   #64
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Where's the Friday photo eh?
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Old 12-07-2008, 10:13   #65
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Sorry Spent most of the day playing with the iPhone and working. Then I had a late 10pm shoot and just got in for 11:40 to take the photo and went to bed. It'll be up shortly
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Old 12-07-2008, 12:54   #66
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Nooooo
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Old 12-07-2008, 13:16   #67
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Awww, I want a classy photo of it
Which is extra sad considering I can just look at mine really
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Old 12-07-2008, 13:23   #68
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Friday 11th July



I really wanted to get the iPhone when it came out last year but the simple fact was it was a stupidly expensive phone. So instead I got a Motorola Razr 2. Great design and thats it. Absolutely rubbish phone. The battery would die after 1 day even if you didn't use it. Around March I cracked and bought the 32gb iPod Touch. The theory was one device for music and one for a phone. It was going great until I started to get annoyed that my iTouch didn't have a phone on it. It really was the one thing missing from the device. I was annoyed that I had to carry both devices around because the iTouch was brilliant. I used it for email while I was out and occasional browsing but the problem was that I always had to find an open wifi hotspot. So when Apple announced the iPhone 3G at the exact time that my contract was up I decided to go for it.

I made a few calls on Thursday and found out that my local Carphone Warehouse would not be getting *any* iPhones to sell. The ones they had were all reserved. "What?!" I visited the Liverpool 1 store while I was out and they had 13. 10 8gb and 3 16gb, all reserved. Later I called the Cheshire Oaks store and score! 2 16gb models, none reserved. "Put my name down!! I'll be there at 9:30am waiting!" I got there at 9:30am for their 10am opening and I was 2nd in the cue. I chatted with the others and they were at the o2 store for 7am. They missed out on getting one at 8am by 1 place. Now thats a kicker. I was glad that I could just turn up and buy one.

I've had it for 24hrs and I love it. It is the phone I've wanted ever since mobile internet appeared. I don't have to check my email every 30 mins while I'm out because it works like SMS. I don't have to hunt for a free wifi hotspot as I can use 3g, and BT Openzone AND that cloud thing. As a freelancer my office is where-ever I want but most days I don't want to lug a laptop around. The iPhone solves all that. No more emailing via a stupid mobile phone keyboard either.
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\o/
You've made it look so impressive
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Old 12-07-2008, 13:32   #70
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Thanks I probably should have gone for something minimalistic and clean but at 11:50pm there just isn't a chance of that happening. So I figure its life, and life isn't clean.
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