I just had the rather dubious pleasure of reaching the fine age of 40. Among all the messages such as “life begins at 40″ and other such pleasantries some people even threw in the odd present or two. Being a secret gadget lover with a rather small and often empty wallet is not a very good combination. Luckily my dearest other half took pity on me this year and provided a suitable present in the form of a new iPad 2 for me.
Even though I love Apple products I am somewhat cautious of believing all the hyperbole that comes from Steve’s “amazing” presentations. Despite this I’m pretty impressed with the ipad so far. Its an amazingly well put together piece of hardware and software.
What I dislike so far:
Too many of my really good iphone apps don’t have proper ipad app, and pressing the button “x2″ to simply scale the app up sucks big time from a graphical and user perspective. To be fair though this is not an Apple problem.
Also another minor irritation is that when posting picture to my MobileMe gallery I was unable to create new albums so would have to fish out my MacBook Pro for that. What a waste, this could have been done with so little extra effort. Its the small attention to detail that sells Apple to me in the first place over other perfectly good offerings (MS); so I’m disappointed to see such as easy thing to spot as this having been missed.
I’ve been running around like a headless chicken all week to ensure my project meets all the requirements to go live this weekend for 32,500 users! We start the process in about 1 hour and this morning my car broke down and I’m stuck at home with 2 kids instead of being at the office. I wonder how the orchestra (my project team) will sound without their conductor?!
More of it please!!!!!!
Between work and family (2 demanding young offspring) I never really seem to have enough time to read all the stuff I want to. I try to triage information with RSS feeds, which works pretty well for me. But I wish I had more time to get stuck into reading all of the sites that really interest me. The latest one to my list of sites of interest that I may never have enough time to read properly is this great site on project management related stuff. No prizes for guessing what my job is!
The other day I needed to send a parcel to my parents in France, I live in the Netherlands. This really shouldn’t be too much of a problem you’d have thought. So I box the item and stick onto each side a full page A4 with the address printed in big letters. I tape it all up with rolls and rolls of sellotape. All good you’d think. Normal process to follow would run something like … take to post office, pay money, leave parcel, post office read address and deliver to that address. In principle a fairly simple process. No matter how complex it is to do logistics the idea is really very simple. I pay someone to deliver something to a given address.
This is something that has been done for a few hundred years now without too much of a problem. So long as the address is still on the parcel ,even if it is “lost” you can just use common sense and read the address to work out where to take it.
Oh I wish it was that simple, somehow the delivery company managed to deliver the package to a shoe shop in a town about 20km away from the destination. They didn’t think it was at all odd to deliver the package to a random address that was not written on the package as a delivery address. Nor did it occur to them to inform me or the recipient that they had delivered the parcel (to the wrong address). Thanks TnT , for bugger all.
Sometimes I am astounded by such a lack of common sense. I’m so glad that whoever did that is not my surgeon!
Today I’m busy helping a relation with a screwed up Iphoto library. Actually I suspect that there is nothing wrong with the library, i think it is the iphoto installation. Luckily I’ve set iphoto library manager to work, it should only take about 3000 minutes to make a duplicate library so that I can work on that one ‘safely’. But I must admit that 3000 minutes seems like an awfully long time.
And if all else fails there is good old SugarSync which she has installed. I made that compulsory after last time that she “cleaned up” her photos and actually deleted them all 
Comments (0) 
Themocracy