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and it never gets any better

Wow just took a look at the last update and can see its been quite a while so I’ll give you some bullet points:

• Sony Ericsson W880i died, the screen in them is pretty dodgy so have replace it with a Nokia 6500 slide.
• Bluetooth syncronisation is amazing and clouding computing really comes into its own with that.
• Wedding is now one month and 3 days away. Gulp!
• The stag is next week, double Gulp!!
• I have fixed a leaky tap and feel manly.
• Came across an awesome auto update plugin for Wordpress blogs like mine, you can find it here.

Sorry I’ve been a bit lacks with the posts. Things at work have been über busy and if I’m not working then I’m doing wedding stuff or possibly trying to catch up on some sleep. I’ve been trying to set myself up with a cloud computing, trying to make my data avaliable everywhere and more importantly sync across all the platforms I use. I don’t think that it will ever be 100% until you can sync contacts with gmail. I’ve managed to sync all my calendars and contacts using plaxo and have now moved my ipod across to the macbook (which now means all the syncing takes place in the background), which despite being a long process really made me realize that moving from a single of to a cross platform solution is quite a bit of hard work.

So I have just updated the iPod touch to 2.0 and paid my £6 for it. I must say that I like the app store and I think that some of the functionality is probably best suites the phone but I like it. Now all I need to do is get it synced with the mac and I’m laughing. This post was written using the Wordpress app, nice!

Sorry for the shortage of posts of late, I’m currently writing some posts for my new blog IGotAMacBook. Its all new posts about my experiences figuring out how to use my macbook.  Having used a PC since forever, I am now making the move over to Apple.  I tried finding a blog/resource about moving over but I couldn’t find one.  So I decided to write my own (slowly), I will always be posting to 24randomthoughts.com but while I generate content for my new blog it’ll possibly be a while before I start on this one again.

Well for all of those people who are just as geeky as me should know that today is download day for firefox 3. Now from doing a little reseach its avalible from today at 5pm UTC which as it turns out is 5pm GMT, I think the time works out to be 10am in America (I’m not sure which time zone that applies to). So rememeber to do your bit and break the Guinness World Record and download it today….after 5pm, I know I will. Well me and at least one other person I know so thats only 999,998 downloads to go.

Update: What a surprise, the servers are being hit really hard so stay tunned.

MIT, have a of their site devoted called MIT OpenCourseWare to as they put it “Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds” by providing free lecture note, exams and tutorials for their courses. All the courses are available from their site without the need to register and can be used either online or off. I have been thinking for a while of doing a few courses before what ever is left of my ability to learn has dried up and since these are way, way cheaper than the open university option I think I will investigate these and let you know how I get on.

Crunchgear has some leaked photos of the iPhone 2.0, yummy

The Onion (America’s finest new source) have released a film if you don’t read the site please go and take a look. The is only avaliable at the moment as a region dvd from Play.com