1. I’m not jealous of the iPad ‘cos…

Sitting in a restaurant with the iPad surfing the web when a waiter walks up…

“How big is the hard disk?”

“Erm…”. I turn it over and check the back, “64 Gb”.

“As I thought, useless for films”

And with that he walked off with a spring in his step having put me in my place.

iPad

Last Friday I returned from work to be presented with an iPad as an early birthday present.

This proved two things to me:

  • I married someone amazing.
  • Life can be very cool.

Anyway, the iPad is a very nice tool and I think that OS4 will make it incredible.

However, there is something about the iPad. You use it in public; I use it on the train or the office and the reactions are worth noting.

Almost everyone is jealous but this is expressed as a series of comments or actions that I find funny. They’re worth documenting. So here starts a new series “I’m not jealous of the iPad ‘cos…”

Productivity

iPad again, sorry.

First impressions are all about speed. Having a machine that starts instantly and is constantly connected makes a fanastic difference.

I’m massively more productive. Within a couple of years all senior managers will leaving their PCs at home for one of these!

The Times paywall…

Charles Bremner to head behind The Times paywall: This French Life

I’m looking forward to the time that I’ll gain now that I have to pay. It’s not the matter of paying, it’s the effort of paying that will stop me. Who wants to go through the pain of a transaction to find another badly researched blog article.

Random thoughts…