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John O'Connell, tumbleblogging from London.

40's, educated, cultured, green activist, geek, and motorcycle nut .... Into art, culture, philosophy, bikes, protesting about everything, linux computing, environmental issues, alternative fuels, minimalism, anti-consumerism, liberalism, screwing with the system and generally messing with your head. Oh, and cats.

Mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before.
So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome.
Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience.
And if it hurts, you know what? ... It's probably worth it.

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Jul 21

Surprise - The iPhone 4 Is Not Perfect …

Actually it has a serious design flaw. Apple took the prefectly good internal aerial and relocated it to a place where your hand (and it’s combination of sweat and natural magnetism) would interfere with reception.

I’ll stick with my HP iPaq rx3715 which is old, looks outdated, but does almost everything the iPhone does (slightly slower) but - more importantly - has worked faultlessly for nearly 6 years. It does everything I need it to do (let’s be honest, Apple iStore may have 26,000 applications but 25,950 are crap.) I even use it as a remote control for my TV, Media Centre and PC (via Bluetooth). It’s my Mp3 player (using a 4GB SD Card), and my GPS.

As it’s a PDA the only thing it doesn’t do is make phone calls.

But then, neither does the iPhone 4.