However, this means that this is one less way to get your twitter fix, and no real way to get real time updates if you don’t have am iPhone or a Blackberry.

Now, I prefer not to get my updates via text. I find it too distracting, although I do use it if there’s some newsworthy event on where I want to receive up to the minute info, but of course that won’t be happening anymore.

Hopefully this means that the guys at twitter will be spending more money and time on getting the xmpp feed up and running for everyone, but in the mean time it looks like I’ll be strapped to my laptop if i want to get the latest.

If anyone wants to view the content, you can view it on the Twitter Blog.

I don’t own a Mac. Or a Macbook (although I am tempted). I don’t own an iPhone. I do however have a 5th Generation iPod (aka a “video” iPod). No, that iPod has no internet connection. It has no calendar software, nor can it send, receive or have email “pushed” to it.

So why, when I go to my Control Panel in windows, do I see this (click the image for the full size view):

I’m assuming that it came with the latest version of iTunes when I downloaded it the other day, but I never asked for it. I don’t even think it asked me if I wanted to install anything to do with it. And I thought it was bad when Microsoft used to install things without my say so.

Apple, you’re taking liberties!!

(Apologies for the bad image editing. Photoshop was never my forté)

The most exciting thing was that for the first time in God knows when I’ve actually passed a credit check. My credit is pretty poor due to some not too bright decisions with a credit card (i.e. getting one); in fact it’s so bad that I’ve always said that if someone manages to steal my identity and get a credit card in my name then I’d like to know how they actually managed to get one since I can’t.

Anyway, I’m very much looking forward to next weekend so that we can move in!!

There’s something about this that I really like. I woinder if there’s anything like this in the UK? Anyone know?

Via

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You can see them in my Flickr account. The big-ass boat right at the end is the new Queen Victoria (quite apt having visited Osbourne House that very day), the latest Cunard boat. The reason it’s so blurry is because we were quite far away so I had to use the digital zoom as well as the optical one on my camera.

All the more reason to look into a DSLR.

Then, on Sunday Emma and I are motoring down to Portsmouth, catching the ferry across to the Isle of Wight for two days. As of now we don’t have any plans, but Em is (supposed to be) doing some Googling for stuff to do. I want to go to Osbourne House as I haven’t been there for at least ten years. Who knows where else we’ll go? Maybe the needles, maybe Black Gang Chine (or at least what’s left of it).

Needless to say I plan to take lots of photos. But that’s nothing new now, is it?