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If you have an iPhone or and iPod Touch, you have to get a copy of Pocket God. No, its not a game but it does allow you to be omnipitent over a group of islanders. The best thing about it, is that it is regularly updated with new fun things to do. Worth every penny I’d say.

It took a bit of hacking, but I have managed to use the tantan-flickr plugin so that I you can see my flickr pics on the blog. I have changed the link on the left to point to them, instead of flickr itself.

I caught a video via the ViralVideoChart which was a spoof Microsoft product advert, or so I thought. It seems that SongSmith is for real, are they serious, its terrible, Microsoft, bringing you 70’s technology, today… !

My wireless network gave up the ghost on 1st January. At first I thought it was a date bug like the Zune, but it turned out to be the power supply. Unfortunately (perhaps typical) the unit was out of warranty, but with nothing to lose and in London, I dropped into the Regents Street store. I explained to ‘Ozzy’, a store person, that I needed to find a part number for the power adaptor as it’s not the sort of thing listed on the Apple Store site. He asked me to wait a minute while he found out. Much to my surprise, he returned and handed over a new one free of cost. How cool is that, many thanks Ozzy. Apple may have faults (Lower slot Issue….) but its still nice to do business with them

I was saddened today. On a trip to London, I dropped into a famous toy store. I remembered from my childhood what an adventure it was to visit there at Christmas. I suppose its not surprising that it looked a lot smaller than I remember, however the most depressing thing was the items on sale. The shop appeared to be filled with rows and rows of plastic toys and figures linked with Movies or Television programs. Very few things seemed the slightest bit educational. Surely we owe it to our children to stimulate their imagination, not just spoon feed them with tacky advertising gimmicks.