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Kinda let my twitter run this for a while while stuff happened around me. Had a couple of days of work, couple of days spent organising stuff for a Joseph production with my church and a local school and a couple of days well, playing with my iPhone really. I’ll come back to that in a moment.

This is a bit of a first for me, helping with a school play. I’ve been working with kids for a while now at my church, helping to run the 4-7s on a Sunday morning a month. Still enjoy it but this was the first major production I was involved with. It’s awesome because I did this play back when I was in Primary School myself, so it was great to be on the backstage side of things. (I was in the chorus and playing the Recorder, which must be about 12 or 13 years ago now) The kids were quite frankly amazing, learnt their lines in the songs very speedily over the course of a couple of months and were in perfect time for being on stage, despite some of them only being 4 or 5.

Not going to put up any photos for obvious reasons, but you can have a picture of me in the coat, as seen above…

So yes, I got my new iPhone, on the friday when it came out and yes it’s awesome. I had an iPod touch before this so it’s awesome to have even more features and be able to use the net when and wherever I want in the country. (Screw roaming data charges when I’m on holiday! My emails can wait.) Yes it still hasn’t got Cut and Paste and the battery life is questionable but I just don’t care. Practically perfect browsing, push email on the fly and the new Apps make this literally the best phone evarrrrrr.

Now to cover my acquisition of said phone. Actually I’ve got to give credit to Apple for coping with the difficulties they had at launch. Everyone’s taking the crap out of them but it’s not their fault that O2 decided not to up the amount of servers required for a new phone launch. Once I’d finally activated my O2 account it took barely 5 minutes to activate the phone and for me to get out of the store. I got to my local store for just before 8am. Decided against the one up in Regent Street as well, although it would’ve been great to be queueing up at the flagship store, people’s would have been queueing for days and the likelihood is that I wouldn’t have got one. Considering the fact that the entire store’s till systems went down I was pretty happy to be down at a store that actually worked.

Had wanted to get there a bit early but I ended up ah, oversleeping. Oh well. Still was only like, 8th from the front of the line so not a big loss for being 20 minutes later than I’d hoped. The bad part was that, thanks to O2’s crappy servers it was taking on average over 40 minutes per person. They went down 3 times while I was there, and the Apple staff were restarting their browsers every 5 minutes. Incidentally it seemed that O2 was making them use Internet Explorer for sign-ups, so they were all running VMWare Fusion with IE7 running on them. The guy I was with tried Safari just while messing about and amusingly, although it wouldn’t continue onto the signup form it loaded faster than IE. (Lolwut.) Some of the guys in-front of me had to head off to work but the Apple guys took details and said that they’d reserve a phone for them later. (Didn’t matter as they had loads but pretty nice of them.)

I had nothing better to do that day so I stuck around. Shorter line ftw. I eventually sat down in-front of the Macs at about 11:30 and after much waiting around, credit checking, messing with Mobile Me and Facebook checking, got it activated and walked out the door with it working and in my hand. For those who had difficulties with actually using the phone, in your face! Mine worked immediately and was even using Edge on the way home. Even received a text message from O2 apologising for the lack of service, not that I noticed anything.

Annnyway, had it for 5 days already and love it love it love it. Final.