At the MacWorld Keynote in San Francisco, Apple have announced the iPhone, along with Apple TV and other products.

I have been especially interested to see what the iPhone was actually going to be like. From my experience, every mobile phone that has ever been made is crap. Crap! They all lack something, whether it be bluetooth, or they just have a crap menu, or crap buttons.. I could go on forever. Apple have taken up the challenge of creating a revolutionary phone, that is actually revolutionary.

Some of the things I really like are that it’s a smartphone, but it doesn’t have a stylus. It doesn’t even have buttons on the front. It’s totally ‘touch’ driven.

It also has a sensor so that when you put the phone to your head, it will switch the display off to save power. It also has an accelerometer to detect whether the unit should be showing the display in portrait or landscape mode. That is just awesome.

Unfortunately, we probably won’t see the iPhone in Australia until 2008. Maybe by then we might actually have some decent mobile plans with bundled data, rather than the ridiculous prices we’re subjected to currently.

Check out the Macworld.com news cover and photos from the keynote on Mac Rumours.

One quote I found amusing from the Macworld.com news cover:

Closing the proceedings, pop singer John Mayer — who has stood on stage with Jobs several times over the past few years — played his hit songs “Gravity” and “Waiting On the World to Change.”

“Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. just make life more fun,” said Mayer in between songs. “It’s the exact opposite of terrorism.”

Bawhahahah!

A fun night until Coach mixed me up some doozies at Tom’s place. It all went down-hill from there. I could ramble on about it, but the photos tell the story best.

Check out Andy’s photos of the night and Coach Murphy’s photos of the night.
(I think Coach’s photos are the best )

This is Jeremy, Andy, Aidan and Lexie at the Rialto christmas party. Jeremy tipped me off that they were having the Christmas party last Thursday evening, so Aidan and I thought we’d gate crash. It was free beer, wine and champagne for 2 hours (which kinda went to 3) and the best finger food I have ever had. Go Rialto!

So yesterday Aidan left us. She’s a mate of Jeremy’s from Canada that stayed with us for a couple of weeks. We showed her all the sights of Melbourne like: the Indian place, Stalactites, Dumplings, Parmas, etc. Funny how all the places we’d show a tourist are food related. Aidan is awesome because she smuggled a 1-litre bottle of maple syrup in her bag for us and cooked us pancakes on more that one occasion.

Anyway, I can’t wait for her to send us a copy of some awesome Canucks music.

… well thats what the T1000 would say to me, if I saw him and I was in the Terminator 2 movie.

I impulsed bought a new bike on Saturday. It’s a GT Outpost 2005, and it’s a dream to ride compared to my last bike.

I haven’t really been reading the news, but I found an article about the new smoking laws in Victoria.

From the Tobacco Reforms Victoria web site, I found that from 1st July 2007, smoking will be prohibited in:

• enclosed licensed premises.
• outdoor dining or drinking areas where there is a roof in place and walls that cover more than 75% of the total notional wall area.

I personally cannot wait for these laws to start. I would prefer to even see the second point be extended to say ‘Not smoking in any outdoor area where food/drink is served‘ like what Brisbane has. Comments about the issue on the Age website seem to follow my opinion also.

It shits me that everytime I go out somewhere, I have to breathe smoke. It’s rubbish, and these laws are great.

We had a bit of a BBQ for Grand Final day. Even if you don’t like any of the teams, it’s still a celebration of how great AFL is.

After the game, we walked down to the Arden Street oval (home of the Kangaroos) and kicked the ball around until it got dark. Good times.

The Crew watching the game

Linnea and Amanda

Luke and Amanda

Andy

J-Dog went to Sydney last week for the Telstra Small Business Awards, where he happened to bump into my mate Sol. You may recall the previous encounter that I had with Sol, where I recieved the ‘Peace Out’ after leaving Big-T.

Siezing the opportunity, J-Dog told Sol about the photo of him and I, and managed to get a photo with him on the night, which was a real pisser

Just when you thought it was all over, the unoffical Sol was at the Exchange Hotel on Friday night. Here’s a shot with Tom, Sol and Steve (borrowed from Tom’s blog)

I couldn’t miss the opportunity to give Sol a little ‘Peace Out’ back.

Afterwards, Tom bought unofficial Sol a Corona, and unofficial Sol asked ‘What the hell is this?’. Tom replied: ‘You should know… you’re Mexican!’.

Priceless

The new Banshee rocks. Not only does it do two-way iPod sync, but it also does cover art, iTMS (from a plugin) and Last.FM recommendations. I nearly forgot, it also does DAAP for sharing with iTunes over mDNS.
I made some ebuilds for Gentoo, and submitted a bug report for it.
Rad.

After watching some of the Geelong games in the VFL, Bek and I decided we’d actually go down to TEAC Oval and watch the preliminary final betweeb Geelong and Williamstown. Although the weather turned a little nasty, it was a good day and Geelong ended up beating Williamstown by a few goals.

There were plenty of hard feeling from the Collingwood supporters that were there, living up to their reputation. This obviously excludes Jezza, and we won’t hold being a Collingwood supporter against him.