Work have made me an offer......

No, not that kind of offer (yet). The opportunity to purchase an iPhone 3GS for work, I purchase the handset (at a slightly reduced cost) and they continue to pay for my line rental & business calls, with the promise that they will pick up the data costs from Q3 of this year when they roll out work email on Smartphones for all & a load of internal apps.

So a couple of months to get up to speed with the interface & download some apps for me to play with, then hopefully a very powerful & useful business tool with email & instant messaging all built in to a small, handy personal device.

Having had a Blackberry Curve for quite a while now, I would have preferred one of those, but this way I have both Apple & Blackberry devices, I wonder if the next market leader will be the Custard!?

Continuing a theme....

Do I smell Birthday cake....

The demolition has started....

The demolition of my neighbours house for redevelopment has started.

When social networking gets abused.....

I have just had a lengthy discussion with a friend of mine who does not have any social networking accounts at all, no Facebook, no Twitter, no MySpace, not even a Flickr account.

Sadly a 3rd party has setup a Facebook account in his name and is now using it to maliciously comment on my friends employer Facebook Wall. As you may imagine, getting an email from the Company Chairman with what at first glance to him appear to be facts & an invitation to explain why he has made these comments somewhat perplexed my friend.

Difficult to defend yourself against & prove 100% that it's not you. Sadly the IT Dept of the business appears unable or unwilling to take the speedy action required & report to Facebook central.

So beware, it's not it's cracked up to be when it's abused. Am seriously considering closing down my account.

Early birthday present

My birthday present has arrived a week early, so I was advised to open it, just to make sure it was intact in the big green John Lewis bag the courier delivered it in. Luckily it was intact and better still when I plugged it all in to test, it looked and sounds fantastic.

First impressions of the Roberts Sound 43 DAB\CD\iPod sound system are very positive, it looks good, the sound is great & it is bursting with loads of features that I will use. The DAB signal is good and it doesn't get interference from my home power system dLAN. Sound wise I think it keeps up with the Bose Wave systems I have, as the Roberts will live in the garage I will have to take a Bose in there & compare with some suitable tunes.