Well if I get the device here it’s 199$ + (24×70) which is roughly 1880 plus a ton of taxes and fees.

I think even at 650$ you can get it and a pre-pay orange SIM and pay less than me? I forgot what Orange is called in your land. Mobistar?

Oh well, now that you have an Ipod Touch from your international travels you can just install the new 2.0 FW and pretend it’s an Iphone.

Truphone is OK. I beta tested it on S60 last year.

Obviously English is not his first language, or perhaps even second.

The only crows in my bedroom are the ones circling over the slaughtered vestiges of my “love” lives…

Made me want to punch things.

It seems to be about 1 euro in the UK and 99 euro over on Swisscom.

Why would it cost so much in Belgium?

@the all important Doug
Duncan Riley filmed his unboxing if you want video http://www.inquisitr.com/1601/iphone-3g-unboxing/

The Swans are OK – particularly because they can’t win against Collingwood.

“Rogers iPhone 2nd most costly in the world” … Minimum cost of $2,176 US over mandatory 3yr contract.

When Rogers’ special pricing ends on Aug. 31, the company will take the most expensive spot with a total cost of $2,572 US…”

I think I’ll take a pass. People will sign a mandatory 3-yr contract and they’ll have a new phone in 6-8 months anyway.

Also; “The lowest total commitment will be enjoyed by Belgians, who will be on the hook for only $726 US”

Damn you, KW!

Thanks Cait – I only asked because I’ve just bought a laptop (are they called that anymore or Notebook?) for other members of my family and it came with Vista. Just wanted to explore it more fully.

The laptop has similar specs to Dave’s but it’s an ASUS. Still cleaning up some of the crap – around 70 processes running out of the box (my XP desktop only has about 28-30 running at any one time).

Message to TAI Doug – I hope the Saints win tonight (not that I barrack for them, it’s because I hate Carlton).

Who’da thought!?

@Blogslut UAC goes off too often because of the “autoexecute” funcions built into earlier versions of Windows. Once DirectX and it’s ilk are killed off, it shouldn’t be needed.

@Matt the Snipping Tool! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipping_tool it’s small, simple and I’ve yet to find something I wish it does, that it doesn’t do.

What was the application in Vista that Cait loved so much that she reckons that MS should advertise it? Don’t want to sift right through the podcast to find it.

Cool to see everyone getting new toys! Sweet

Seems low class to me…

Dave how is the app switcher you were talking about anything like spaces in OSX? It’s just like alt-tab always has been but with 3d like graphics.

I haven’t been on twitter much as of late. They blocked it at work along with all other social network sites, tho they haven’t caught up to friendfeed yet. I was using the website for posting and just refreshing but I have a few clients at home I use but really don’t use it that much anymore.

The fake ID creator would be good for sites that need you to sign up for stuff before you can access stuff, though usually just ignore those sites to be honest.

Hmmm well that is all for now.

@Blogslut – The the Apple store is the new Web lounge in the city! It’s free and the staff don’t care. I was there on Tuesday morning and it was fairly quiet, went back at lunch and it was packed!!! (I saw a lot of hotmail screens!)

Now back to installing the drivers

I moved to NSW from the UK a few years ago and was equally impressed with the RTA’s online stuff. I didn’t even have to wait the half an hour for the CTP to get through.

I loved Dave’s enthusiasm for the Vista photo viewer thingy. If I was going to get up on my Apple Box I’d say something about iPhoto doing that for years.

Agree with Cait on the mobile phone thing, although I am guilty of answering calls through my bluetooth hands free thing built into the car’s audio system. It’s quite nifty but the UI is horrible so I never actually make calls, only press the “answer” button on the steering wheel if someone calls me!

And on the twitter equivalents… I’ll be loyal for life for the first one to let me register “Tom”. OK, perhaps not – I wouldn’t want people to think I was the MySpace Tom!

Life has too many distractions has it is without adding to them

speaking of which, I should get back to work

K

Some interesting points raised.

@ Cait

Have you noticed, that the more expensive the car, the more likely the person is to drive without a handsfree. BMW, Prado and Pajero drivers as an example. They own relatively expensive cars and think it is their right to ignore the law, FFS, its like a $10 attachment.

I don’t know about it being a jailable offence, but certainly if i see someone swerving from lane to lane on the highway, 90% of the time they are on the phone, the other 10% either bad drivers, or drunk, thankfully not much of the latter.

My wifes PC runs Vista, i don’t like it, nor do i hate it, i do however really dislike office 2007.

I run a progam and say yes continue it should save that setting and not ask me every other time I want to run the program. Fortunately you can turn it off which is a godsend.

I haven’t had many issues with Vista but then again I only ever use it if I am gaming and not for general everyday use so can’t comment too much but if I had a choice I would have gone with XP.

btw – http://ericseale.vox.com/library/post/friendfeed-again.html

Identica’s backend has to many dependencies.

So do the borg references mean you’re getting bought by Microsoft?

KW is pretty funny.

It sounds like twitter is a bad IRC with less users, but I enjoy it.