I lol’d, because if this was Australia, they’d all be saying “hmm, nice and cool today”. See, there, it reaches up to 42c. So all you British people who say it’s hot, shut up and visit to Australia in summer.

Hell, go in winter too. It’s winter there now, and I noticed that it’s been sitting at a nice 15c in Perth during the day, over the past week.

Game.

Ever.

Period.

Pictures of the Special Edition.

Update (30th April 2008): Moved the guide to a proper page now, and added some more info: http://william-hook.com/iphone/

Honestly, it’s russian, the usual enlargement emails, drugs, pills, and other random bs that I DON’T WANT.

If I ever meet a spammer in real life, they better run for their lives, as I’m actually going to murder them.

And I must say, it’s an incredibly nice phone. Everyone says “oh, it doesn’t have MMS or 3G so it sucks”, but honestly, that does not bother me at all. I never use MMS, and on the one or two times that I have, email would probably have sufficed. Also, 3G doesn’t bother me much because Stafford has shocking coverage with Vodafone (who are the best 3G network, apperantly), so….so what?

The phone itself is a nice size, not too big, not too small, but it is a bit heavier compared to the Sony Ericsson W880i that I’ve had. Still, for all the features it has, it’s a good size. The interface is very nice and easy to use, and compared to the tiny keys on the W880i, it’s a dream to type on…even with the on-screen keyboard. I also watched an episode of The Gadget Show on it last night, from Monday, and, it’s a nice screen to watch media on. I used the “Videora iPhone Converter” first, which coverts your videos to work on the iPhone, then you have to sync it, then go to the iPod section, and go to “Movies”, then tap it and you’re set.

Of all the talk about the iPhone on the net, I’ve yet to come across any mention of the sound quality for the phone itself - it’s pretty good. I’ve made a couple of calls with it and for the most part, it actually does have a “stronger” and more bassy sound then the W880i has, when on calls. The SMS feature is also very nice, it’s extremely easy to follow a conversation with the “threaded” view.

I also unlocked it as soon as I got home, because 1) I’m still on Vodafone, and 2) I don’t want to pay for the contract. Using ZiPhone, all you need to do is take it out the box, plug it in, download ZiPhone, unzip it, run it, hit “unlock and jailbreak”, and it’ll do all the work for you. As my phone only had 1.1.2 on it, I also had to upgrade it (to version 1.1.4, which works perfectly), but it should be pretty obvious how to do that.

So far the only issue I’ve found is that I have too much music, I’ve had to not sync some of my albums, as I have around 8.5GB of music. If Apple do indeed release the 3G iPhone, and they have a 32GB or 64GB model, I might just get one of those and then give this one to my dad. 64GB would be a great size for me, as I could load all my music onto it plus quite a bit of video too.

Overall, it’s well worth the £169, so if you haven’t got one, and you live in the UK, get one.

It’s a pretty sweet film, I saw it today at the cinema, pretty good plot, good acting, and some rather good camerawork too.

I recommend it. Now, off you go to the cinema.

So…all very well. Placed the order on the 20th March, and they finally arrived today. Almost. See, Royal Mail, being the bastards they are, decided to charge me almost £20 in customs fees. So they put a “you owe us money!1!!!11!!1!” card through our door, which says “come and pay us”…so I had to go and get £20 out the ATM in town, then come all the way back to their depot, get the box from Amazon, and come home.

This is the second time I’ve become extremely annoyed with them, as in December they decided to lose my BluRay burner off eBay which I sold - that was a £100 mistake.

I don’t like them anymore.

Ok, so George “Dubya” Bush is a supposed “war criminal” - gotcha

A purported ex coke addict? - Right.

But please, Oh please George, why did you have to become one of those filthy stinking filesharing pirates? The RIAA would have everyone believe that these pirates are the most evil of the evil people on the planet. Hitler was nothing in comparison to someone sharing the latest Britney Spears album.

The following video is an interview done by Fox news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb7iOvS7Akc

Wow George, I didn’t realise you could get the Beatles on iTunes.

Oh wait, thats right - you cant, nor can you get them on any legal music downloading platform for that matter.

Also, according to this article by the Washington Post, ripping your own legally purchased CD’s is also against the law.

Guess you can just add that to your list of bad things you’ve done huh?

The above post was found at this site, which, at the moment, is down.

Now, generally, you’d immediately see that it’s a short film (around half and hour long) about snowboarding and think “yawn!”, but don’t. It’s actually one of the best productions I’ve seen in a long time. The photography is simply stunning, and the soundtrack fits in really well, and it’s actually superb if you listen to it seperatly. A lot of it is filmed with a fisheye lens, which, usually, would make it rather rubbish if you overuse it, but they got it just right - not too much, but not too little either.

In fact, I can’t express how much of a good thing it is….you just have to see it. Seriously. Go and see it right now. And listen to the soundtrack. It’s brilliant.

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The amazing soundtrack:
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - 26
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - The Descent
The Ark - One of Us Is Gonna Die Young
Ratatat - Wildcat
Ming & Ping - Beautiful Things
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - Kiss The Sky
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World
Junior Boys - In The Morning
Awol One & Daddy Kev - Rhythm
Royksopp - Circuit Breaker
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - Prog Punk

First of all, I went on Saturday to see Cirque Du Soleil’s Delirium, at the Birmingham Indoor Arena. Basically, Delirium is a 2-hour-long show that is basically a music show. It’s a series of acts backed to a soundtrack, and, simply put, it’s amazing. The music is actually very good, and the performance is very good. My favourite part in the whole show was during the song “Cold Flame”, and featured one very talanted performer - she managed to keep about 7 hula-hoops spinning for the whole track, on her arm, foot, body, legs…you name it.

If you can get hold of the soundtrack, it’s quite good too, plus you can hear it, albeit without the visuals and wirthout the awesome sound of the NIA.

The stage is quite large too, I managed to get a photo of it before they told us to turn our phones/cameras off:

I would rate the whole show a 9.5 out of 10, it was that good, and well worth the £55 ticket.

We (I went with dad) also went to Pizza Express before the show, however we timed it a bit badly and ended up getting into the NIA just moments before they started. And we missed desert. So when it finished, at 10pm, we went back to Pizza Express and had a coffee, and I had another garlic bread with mozzarella on it. I like them. They’re tasty.

So, that was Saturday. Sunday was quite fun too, I went to Alton Towers again and managed to get five rides on Air, and about seven rides on the Spinball Wizard. It also started to lightly snow at about 16:45, before we left, which was quite annoying, because for “safety reasons” they said only three people could go on the Spinball Wizard at a time (usually you can fit four people into the car thing). Also, a tip - don’t have a whole 600ml soft drink right before you go on. It’s a bad idea.

Also, they have a new part of the park which is basically a pirate ship type thing, and you have water cannons, so you can wet people who are watching you. One small problem, they have cannons too. It doesn’t seem to be that popular at the moment, because it’s cold, but once it gets warmer I think it’ll become more used.

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So, that was my eventful weekend. Fun eh?