Unless you’ve been offworld for the last month or so, you’ll already know that the iPhone is about to go global in 3G/2.0 form in 11 days. Very shiny, capable toy, and if I didn’t already have a perfectly decent phone and iPod I’d be sorely tempted. As it is I was hoping that pricing for this critter would make the whole decision easy...

It didn’t.

Telstra today announced their pricing. iPhone (I assume 8GB) AU$279 and AU$30/mo contract (assume 24 months). That’s less than half what I thought it would be, and puts it right in the non-smartphone pricing category. Optus and Vodaphone will have no option but to match. It’s going to be a blitz.

As for me, well I’ve been accused of being a rampant consumer (gadget junkie) but I like to think I can temper this with some practicality for now... no really... I’m pretty sure I can...

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Telstra

Installed it the day it came out but just realised that this little blog flurry is my first using version 4 of the excellent RapidWeaver.

Very shiny, excellent use of several Leopard features, e.g. the publish progress dialog has all that gooey coverflow eye candy, and incremental updates seem to be a bit smarter too.

Tags: RapidWeaver, Rocks

A couple of Mac desktop experiences for you.

TBWA\Chiat\Day need to talk with the guy who did this:



I won’t tell you how accurate this one is but it gets bonus points for demonstrating Master Chief’s bulletproof codpiece.

Tags: video, comedy

Finally did a long-overdue cull of the wardrobe just now and found a couple of treasures. One was a black t-shirt for the Star Trek edition of After Dark, complete with cool Berkeley Systems’ Heroes of Technology bit on the back. The other was this gem:

not ironing it...


still not ironing it...

Story behind this is I was once lucky enough to work with a couple of excellent guys, Mike Seyfang and Nick Hodge. We were Random Access Consulting, a.k.a. the Munge Brothers. Nick’s got some good history on it here. Mike had a grafitti artist paint three of these as a surprise on the afternoon of an Apple SA Christmas bash. I think they were still not quite dry when we wore them.

‘twas a whole different river back then - and I was a whole different person - but nice to look back on those times once in a while. Uncle Mike, Uncle Nick, if you ever stumble upon this page in your travels, sorry, but I did put ‘Caution, Stumble Hazzard’ signs up... A tip o’ the hat to you and yours, hope you’re doing well.

And may your trousers always stand at attention.

Tags: RAC, Munge Brothers

...if I remember how to use this blog thingie.