Why I want an N95 instead of an iPhone

The Nokia N95 is going to be available very soon. As everyone near me knows I’ve been bollocking on about it for ages. However today I really found a time when I could have used it.

On the way to the London Web Standards Group we got a bit lost. The N95 has GPS and a map client. It would have been a trivial matter to find where we were and where we wanted to be. I may not have had many gigs of music to listen while lost but we might have got there a bit quicker.

Symbian has been around a good while, and while the Symbian develop tools suck (and I really mean that) there are things like pyS60 which makes development for Symbian smart phones a joy. iPhone will apparently allow no hacking.

Finally, the N95 will have a 5 mega-pixel camera with auto-focus. One of my pet projects has involved reading barcodes on phones. It’s a really pain with fixed focus to mess with the image to find the barcode. Auto-focus helps that a lot. The iPhone has a 2 mega-pixel fixed focus camera. I haven’t had anything that bad since 2003.

While I love my Apple Mac I’m just tempted to blow off the flashiness of the iPhone and go for technology I already know will add to the way I live my life.

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Living with(out) someone

I’ve been married almost a year. This next week and a half is going to be one of the longest times since then I’ve been without, Rosemarie, my wife. While I’m looking forward to going to California for the first time, I’m also going to miss my wife like crazy.

I’m sure she knows this, and if not I hope she sees. When you live with someone every day not seeing them is strange. My wife is my strength, when I’m down she reminds me of who I can be when I try. She is someone I went to be there to love and look after when she needs it. Someone creative who makes wonderful art and make me feel creative just being around her. She has so much energy, she dances and sings around our flat and it makes me feel alive.

So, to the guys I’m spending a week in California with, I know it’s going to be fun, but I sure wish one of you was my wife.

Stu’s in ur box fixin ur MySQL

Thanks to Big Stu for helping me fix my MySQL server this morning. I will back posting all the stuff I’ve been writing. More RAM has also been added to the box. The server is on the mend!