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5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

I was suprised there was actually a queue in our local store here. It was about 20 people by the time the store opened and after about 3/4 hour there was about 40+ once the store had opened. I got mine in about 3/4 hour from the opening and in our O2 store no activations were happening in store not sure if this was happening across the Uk or not. I was lucky that the activation went without one hitch as some of the UK didn't hit the server flops that happened later in the day.

My husband on the other hand changed over to use my old iPhone and wasn't so luck as he did the 2.0 upgrade at about 2pm and ended up with a brick for about 6hours. He was ok about it but I do wander what impact it has on people who are turning to the iPhone for the first time which a lot of the 'hand me down' handsets are going to.

My reasons for upgrading were in part so he could have one and in part 'ooo shiny thing' along with giving me a chance to up my tariff which I needed to anyways. I will say the 3g coverage so far is amazing, I was not sure it would work fully in my area but it so far is doing very well. The only issue is my iPhone seems to have a dead pixel but my O2 store have for once come up trumps and are once they get stock in (could be today) replacing it without question.

The major fail in this process was the sign up form online that apparently would make upgrading mean I didn't have to queue - it broke and although O2 did send us all an apology text it wasn't great. I never planned to get inline for this iPhone but ended up having to as couldn't get any date on one being available to order online. Why the rush for me? Well in part I wanted my husband to get one as his old mobile was slowly driving him insane. To be honest, I'd have waited probably until the fuss died down if it wasn't for that.

Yep it is actually cheaper in the UK. I talked to O2 about my upgrade and I'm getting a free 3g iPhone and paying no more than the £45 / month I pay now. Per month: 1200 minutes, 500 text, unlimited data, roaming rates reduction, 18 month contract. The only downside (not sure it's a really down one) is I have to sign up again for another 18 months. I'm also getting my husband upgraded to a £30 month contract for my old iPhone without a cost. If I wanted unlimited texts it would be £7.50 extra a month that's it. For once it's good to be British :)

In the UK owning a pitbull is illegal and they are part of the dangerous dogs act along with a few other breeds. I am not really going to get into if that's right or not, but I do feel that it really angers me that owners don't understand all dogs no matter what breed can injure and are an animal. I love our dogs probably more than some humans but I still recognise they are animals at the end of the day. The first thing any of our dogs ever got taught was to reject a human hand in their mouth. I've known vicious labradors and other breeds most would not call 'dangerous' - when it comes down to it they do all have teeth and are part nature and nurture. If you don't train your dog or realise it's an animal you get problems.

I went a few years ago and it was not really much good. Compared to a lot of the expos this was less internet and more marketing as the direct marketing fair is attached to it. I'm not sure if it's changed though which it might but when I went it was a couple of seminars stuck in inside tents and the rest was just stands people selling enterprise or business to business things from. As I said it could have changed but from the literature I got sent it still seems fairly the same - there was no networking potential when I went either it was just a trudge around and walk out - unless you were after cheap printing then you could have networked that. What was there internet wise was out of date and most of the products / demos were all enterprise based.

I've been using tumblr for a while over at espresso. Before I had a mini update / post / link section on my blog now I just use tumblr for it. I'm totally addicted and during the hectic past few months it's given me my blogging fix when I simply didn't have time for a full post.

Happy birthday. 30 snuck up on me rather than being a slow decline. Hope you had a good day and this year brings you much hoorahness.

You had to pick the one day I wasn't out and was getting furniture for the new house didn't you lol. Mutter :P

The gif probably got burnt by the cig butts he's smoking as he types this - troll's aren't known for not being hypocrites. If you smoke a cig I'll give ya a link lol.

@Healthyguy: Hoorah you're being a bigot over here too.... well done at least you are consistent.

@HealthyGuy: would you like a side order of bigot with that statement along with the large dollop of absurd in your statement. Addiction has nothing to do with intelligence that's along the lines of saying if you have blue eyes you are more inclined to eat peanuts. Well done on saying something just for effect there. You hope to offend people - well that's a great way to live a life isn't it.

I wish people would stop thinking offending and branding people with addictions makes them stop. It does the complete opposite. If someone is to give up and addiction they need support not insults.

Personally I don't think it makes him more or less human - humans have faults. Society will have it's opinions depending on how smoking is seen.

House is fine it seems - well if you define fine as in old wreck still ;) Kind of even more glad we're moving as highlights it's about as stable as the little pig's one lol.

Dogs did freak out and can't really blame them as their owners were doing a big wtf moment too.

News is now saying it was 5.3 according to the bbc and seems a lot of england felt it ... if they weren't sleeping :)

I have now had 3 apple wireless might piles o poo mice. I gave up in the end and couldn't be happier with my logitech revolution one. I will never buy a mighty mouse again as think them nothing more than an expensive paper weight.

For me it's omnigraffle every time. I even use it for the first stage of wireframing.

I don't really hold Valentine's day with any specialness. Way I see it I'm with the one I love and we know that each day. I guess maybe it's a bit different when you've been in a relationship as long as we have, although I never held much weight to it.

I'm not a big flowers, chocolates, romantic gift girl and never ever liked even the whole dating / romancing thing - to me it's the small day to day things that let me know someone loves me not an over priced gesture I should expect. I agree with Tyme on the free things - I've been known to be unbelievably happy with stones, conkers (hey I go out with a gardener) or free gifts, may sound weird but given by someone you love they mean the world.

Yep planning with guild to do some instances. For now, I'm focusing on getting my flying mount so I can keep up as it's hilarious watching me farting about on me chicken brining up the rear. We're also going through some of the old end game with onyxia and other instances which is really fun. I've got 2 alts want to also work on as one, Om is a res druid who will be better for instances than Karmaic being a hunter.

A time machine is how it's done lol. I'm married, have a web design business, have 2 dogs, 2 active blogs and a fair few less active ones along with also having a time sink hobby in WOW (World of Warcraft), I also maintain probably more than I should other sites). Actually the not so sexy answer is organisation. It's actually quite scary the amount of time you waste once you look at what you spend doing what and learn to optimise the time you have. I recall a few years ago I was doing 18hrs+ and literally falling asleep at my keyboard. Now, I take most of the nights off or at least do non 'day work' stuff and also have been known to take time off at the weekend. It's a case of prioritising and making what time you do have count. Little things like only checking RSS once a day, having a good email sorting system and doing small jobs when they come up and not procrastinating - these all mount up to having more time.

I'm currently farming and q'ing to get the flying mount. 4hours to do a 60-70 level lol 69 took me 8hours solid q'ing. I've been doing my daily bg and that's been going well. I've not actually done much bg maybe about 3-4 coming up to 70 at various stages for this toon - others I've done more on. I did my first one yesterday and came about 1/2 way in ratings table but this morning popped on before lunch and got 1st rating in warsong daily so incredibly happy considering my gear is not that great - although I did buy one sexy bow when popped 70. I need to make about 400 gold so should in theory by end of this week or weekend have my flying mount ... assuming shiny things don't distract me ;)

I did also. I agree with momadvice can't really see not marrying someone that wasn't my best friend and once we actually got together (insert a bit of the friends will they won't they story sage until we gave into it) haven't looked back - marriage and life aren't easy and having your best friend there with you helps beyond words.

I agree with the cries of 'stop it'. Lets just stop the numeric madness and get about producing valid, solid applications that are innovative and grow with the new technologies. Web .anything is just marketing bottom feeding and we should all stop with the crazy. I think my head will explode if people start talking in wide numbers are web 3.0. 4.0. 5.0 to infinity.

Well it's better than joomla which you'd be better off stabbing your eyes out than attempting to use. I've not had too much experience but really unless it's a large site I've yet to see something it can do better than wordpress which does the templating and plugins much better in my opinion.

I agree neat idea and congrats from over here.

Independence day - god that was one awful film and walked out of it in disgust not watching the end. I even nearly got chucked out of the cinema for the first and last time ever due to hating it and being vocal - something I never have done over a film and doubt will again.

I really do think it's a group of adults and you're sort of doing the same tarring all with the same brush. I'm 32 and certainly know several adults that could fall into the description you have of that girl. Just because you are adult does not mean you conform at all and that's a wonderful part of life. I've never really held much weight to age. I work in the web industry where age is not a factor for most things - I've seen and worked with amazing people both much older and much younger than me. I also play online games where I know in my wow guild there are many much younger and some older than me - it makes no difference to me as they are all people. Online is a great leveler of age.

I don't really agree with the comment that it's because they are parents either. Just being a parent doesn't mean you have some brain bypass that makes you think x or y. I know many parents that certainly don't have the kind of thoughts you have - infact they look far from the norm themselves. Perhaps it's about circles people move in more? Physical appearance no matter if you like it or not defines not just a teenager it defines everyone. Your choices are what makes you you. Whilst you may not like it people choose to blend or merge with the crowd.

One thing I've had with age is a caring less about how people look and caring more about how I feel about how I look. Rather than bothering to be in x or y crowd I now accept who I am. Part of getting to that acceptance is experimenting with your look and who you are.

Congrats Ozone42: Koi are meant to be good luck to have as tattoos.

*cough* ;) Plenty of blogs in the UK ;) I actually have quite a few clients now from the Uk and for about 2 years most sites I've worked on that are UK based have had a blog. Yes, it may be a bit 'slower' but blogging is alive in the UK. From sheer numbers the UK will always have less blogs - 10% of UK != 10% of the US. In my field of design there are many noteable blogs from Fadtastic, Jon Hicks through to Mark Boulton and Jeremy Keith.

Mike: 'IE 6 does what to that page?'
Scrivs: '99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer on the wall....'
Tyme: 'Yay my pc hasn't frozen for 2hours'.

Using Things over here and so far working well. I was thinking of omni focus but Things looks better and also looks like it's going to fit better with what systems I already use. Now if they can make it work with Studiometry I would be a totally happy person.

Happy new year from over here... still got 5 hours or so to go with me but hoorah to 2008.

Happy holiday hugs to everyone :)

Victor just hadn't provided enough relief.

Meanwhile back at Rome Bob waited.

"Is that catching?" she said puzzled.

Cool, thanks for the suggestions. I used to do a lot of macro work with my SLR so getting the ability to do that is a big thing with this one - somehow I end up doing some on the cybershot (for what it is and how old it is (2 years old) it does damn good), but I really miss the flexibility and quality of SLR. I'm prepared to wait, considering the UK Boxing Day / January sales as could be able to get a deal in those.