Last night I got to see Lenny Henry. He was fantastic. Properly the best comic I’ve seen at The Theatre Royal. If you ever see his Live DVD’s, its nothing like the atmosphere when he does it live. In person, he is even fantastic. DVD just doesn’t capture his full brilliance!
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I walked into my room. Looked round for some papers, some of which is homework, and found a big dollop of dog shit. Brown, clay like gunge which smelt terrible. It was right bang wallop in the middle of my room.
The worst bit is that it was cold. Not luke warm, really cold. That means it had been there for over 2 hours! 
On the plus side, he followed his puppy training, crapping on the paper. Well, thats the only plus.
Be prepared for some really advanced code here…
While True:
Print "Jack > You"
I know. Its amazing.
As a soilder, James was trained for all situations. Guess this wasn’t one of them.
Two years ago, about this time of year, I spent £450 of saved cash on two little devices. The first was a iPod 5th Gen (the first one with video). The second was a Palm TX (a WiFi PDA). One could access a the internet (badly), the other could (just about) play video. I sold the Palm after three months and the iPod has been with me ever since. Both devices where good for what they where designed for, but not great for what I was after.
Back to the crazy world of today, where we have these two items in one. An iPod Touch. If only this product was around two years ago. This iPod is just what is needed in a Web 2.0 world. Although there is no camera, it does seem like a device which was designed for Facebook and Digg.
Coveflow works great. I don’t use it often, but I am glad its there. Safari is quick and simple. I just wish though that it would feature Flash and better AJAX support. All the other apps (Calender, Address Book, WiFi Store, ect), I don’t often use, so I can’t really judge.
Hacking it was simple. Jailbreakme.com worked perfectly! I now have Python, Vi and Apache on it. I don’t know why I need a web server on my iPod, but its nice its there. The only problem I’ve had is my iPod not syncing after being jailbroken. Error -18. I use a Mac, so I restored my iPod on a Windows PC. I re-broke it, then tried to sync it. It now works. Small problem easily sorted!
Also, with OpenSSH added to my Unix Music Box, I installed a varritiy of iPhone apps (Mobile Mail, Google Maps and Mobile Notes). I don’t know why Apple removed these from the iPod, but it works perfectly with them added.
I love my iPod, I just wish it was more open than Apple tries to make it. Its BSD in your pocket Steve, accept it. If you need a new iPod or way to get onto the net, get this one. If you need all of your media on a portable device, and don’t mind it being as thick as a brick, get a Classic.
