New traveling companion...

So, today I picked up a new Macbook. The 2.4GHz version. I decided that with the exchange rate on the £ being so crappy right now there was no point holding off until I got to the US to pick up a new laptop.
I managed to get some educational discount on the purchase, as well as the reduction of 2.5% VAT, so the price came to £990.

If I had bought one on the other side of the pond then it would have cost the equivalent of £1199 (about $1730 with state tax).

My trusty 8 year old 600MHz iBook G3 is going to be wiped clean and handed over to my wife once I return from MWSF.

Macbook ✔

San Francisco Here I Come (2009)

Passport ✔
Hotel booked ✔
Flights booked ✔
Airport parking/hotel booked ✔
Macworld pass confirmed ✔
Dollars collected ✔


To Do
Pack....

Groany Excessmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Crime busters...

Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief from a DNA sample taken from a mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle.

Finding the car in Seinaejoki, north of Helsinki, police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis.

The DNA found from laboratory tests matched a man on the police register.

The suspect denies stealing the car and says he was just hitch-hiking a lift with a man.

The car was stolen in June in the town of Lapua, some 380km (235 miles) north of the Finnish capital, the AFP news agency reports.

It was recovered several weeks later in Seinaejoki, about 25km from where it disappeared.

Sakari Palomaeki, the police inspector in charge of the case, said it was the first time Finnish police had used an insect to solve a crime.

"It is not usual to use mosquitoes. In training we were not told to keep an eye on mosquitoes at crime scenes," he said.

"It is not easy to find a small mosquito in a car, this just shows how thorough the crime scene investigation was," he added.

A prosecutor must now decide if the sample is strong enough for charges to be pressed.

SOURCE

Pointless iPhone apps

While having a look through the App Store I came across some totally useless and pointless apps. Worst thing about them is people are asking to be paid for this shite....



iFart - there are 19 other farting apps for god's sake!

Electric Smoke - what is the point? Come on tell me...
If you're so desperate to be seen smoking just go out an buy a pack of cigarettes. What next, the Nicotine Gum app?

What other 'gems' are lurking in the App Store?

I wonder what morons actually stump up money for these apps and exactly how genuine are the reviews?...

W00t......

Never thought I would get excited at the sight of a petrol station selling diesel for under £1 a litre!!!

My local Shell has it for 99.9p!

Guess what?

The BP station only half a mile away is selling it for 104.9p - still trying to rip us off!!!

How not to eat porridge...

...sitting in front of the computer while recovering from a bad cold - coughing fit while taking a spoonful of porridge. Result? Screen covered in oats and milk...

Storm in a teacup?...

Spend a bit of time hands on with the Blackberry Strom, err Stroll, ahh, Storm...

The keypad is not as easy to get to grips with as the Apple iPhone. In 'potrait mode' the keys are double lettered ones as opposed to a full QWERTY layout and trying to type with any speed in the landscape mode was frustrating. The 'keys' glow blue when you press them as opposed to actually presenting a pop up letter like the iPhone. Not as easy to see IMO.

Obviously it beats the iPhone hands down with it's 3.2 MP camera with a flash, ability to capture video. Having to buy extra memory is a bit of a bitch - wonder how long before Vodafone throws in a 16GB MicroSD card to the deal?

Physically pressing the screen is a bit weird - wonder how long before issues arise with this?

Think I'll stick with the iPhone for now - nice young woman served me though ;)