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the April 2009 archives

of tomphippen.com

iPhone 3G

Apple

Several months after everyone else (and 2 days after it should’ve happened) I’ve got an iPhone 3G. Upgrading was nice and easy, just takes a while to sync 6.9GB of movies/video/apps/data over.

Early plus points, the speaker’s nice and loud, and it’s a bit more comfortable to hold. Downsides are I had to re-arrange my springboard, and I’m not convinced about the warmer displays

Oh Doctor Beeching! You bastard

Local News, Moans

My constant annoyances with the Tory’s fucking up of the railway network in the 60s & 80s continues.

According to the Wikipedia page (admittedly not a great source) the West of England main line used to be double tracks but was reduced to single tracks in the 60s! Un-fucking-believable.

I can understand it would be a pain to expand them now if they’d always been single track, but what was the point of making the lines much worse? I wasted so many hours of my life due to that fucking stupidity. Bastards.

Joined up thinking

Moans
  • the other day – my iPhone lands on the pavement, find out I need to wait until April 10th to upgrade to a 3G
  • 3:50 today – text from O2 I can upgrade today
  • 6:00 today – walking into O2‘s Basingstoke store, find out I have to do it online
  • 9:00 today – go online to get my new phone, the website texts me my upgrade code. then tells me I can’t do it online. I need to phone them. On an 0800 number, which costs 20p per minute from an O2 mobile…