Stuff

I had two weeks off and went to see my family in kiwi land- my brother's partner gave birth to their second boy and it was my sister's 40th birthday, so it was very much a family break and no real time to work on this blog tho i took some photos's for another blog I will start on soon.

This past week I saw an iPhone in the wild- Mitchell RR to be precise- for the first time. I saw a client typing the wireless password into this handheld device and quickly sussed out it was an iPhone, I wonder how he got on with the wireless .......

I was using the libraries wireless (midday Sat 2nd August) and it was so slow, went to speedtest.net to check just how slow it was and got a reading:

But it seemed alot slower than that!

When I was d/l it was less than 30 kb/s where at home my broadband d/l's at 50+.

On the up side, I saw on the library catalogue a little box with a picture of a mobile phone promoting the use of the site on mobile phones. A pat on the back for all those involved in making that happen.

More phone stuff: I went for a walk the other day, heading towards Iron Cove Bay and I took a photo with my phone (a Sony Ericsson K608i) which has a 1.3 MP camera:this is the result:

It's pretty blurry but i guess what can you expect from 1.3MP. The map below is a rough indication of where this photo was taken.

Streetview on Google maps in Australia has been big news.

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I'm still hanging out for a iPhone but Optus won't talk turkey even tho I have both my home phone and broadband with them they just said the prices are the prices. I can wait and just like everyone I'll be waiting for an iPhone that has:cut and paste, a better camera, video camera and less expensive plans!