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So WordPress released a plugin for the iPhone that looks pretty neat. If I could only type well on this thing I’d say it works great!

I must admit I am digging the phone, it almost makes calling people fun!

Ever since working in New York, my daily carry has been a DJ Bag from Manhattan Portage. I used to have one of only two purple ones in existence but some scumbag stole it one New Year’s Eve at San Diego airport (along with my 60GB iPod, passport and cherished stuffed bear). I decided I couldn’t be without so now I am the owner of a grey(ish) one that I try to protect.

Last few days though it has been feeling darned heavy to lug about. So I just took a look inside….

• iPhone
• Anywhere Map ATC (aviation/street GPS)
• SPOT Messenger (GPS tracking/rescue device)
• Flip camera
• Targus mount for Flip camera
• Regular iPod 30Gb
• Bunch of thumb drives, 1 – 4GB

Surely this is too much for one person to be carrying around?? The SPOT Messenger is moving to my flight bag but the rest I kinda need hanging around. Hmmm… and I can’t even think about what would happen if this bag got stolen.

Regular readers of these ramblings will remember all the to and fro-ing over the last few months, will I get an iPhone, no I won’t, yes I will, Apple sucks, I want to give them a kidney.

Most of the reason for not getting one so far has been the effort required, getting in line early in the morning – not much worth doing that for. But today I read on one of the Apple sites that AT&T was now offering the iPhone for sale for business orders. I checked out the website and it invited me to enter my business email address to see if I was entitled to any discounts. I did – I was!

Turns out my employer has an employee discount scheme with AT&T and that was enough to get me in! From there I could add the iPhone to my shopping basket and, better still, the plans were discounted by about 15% so I ended up with the second cheapest plan for the same rate as the cheapest one.

The order went through and I was told 7-10 days. So imagine my surprise when tonight I got an email saying it had shipped already! Will arrive Monday or Tuesday, I guess.

Since I am a little late getting to the party I shall try to resist all the iPhone posts that have come before me.

I am rapidly falling apart.

• Got a rash on my feet and ankles that has been there for maybe 9 months, keeps going away and coming back. Now it’s starting to look nastier
• Got at least two teeth that have toothache, only mild right now but I feel total dental meltdown coming on
• Half my fingernails are turning white, the skin underneath is growing out, pushing the nail up slightly.

Obviously last year’s MRSA has nothing to do with item 2 but I wonder about the other two. Anyway, next couple of weeks will see a few medical appointments. I also have to see an FAA medical doctor to renew my aviation medical.

Good show tonight, only low-light, for me, was the Jive which was very under-powered but I understand these guys and girls are verrrry tired!

Anyway, my wish for the top 4:

1. Katee
2. Joshua
3. Courtney
4. Twitch

but my prediction….

1. Joshua
2. Katee
3. Twitch
4. Courtney

Great show!

Here in San Diego, Fox used to broadcast on channel 6, and the CW on channel 5. But thanks to some corporate shenanigans, they’ve swapped channel numbers. No big deal, except on Dish satellite TV, CW is on 6 and Fox is on 69, in both standard definition and high definition.

Reprogramming my DVR for this week’s So You Think You Can Dance final I was surprised to see that SYTYCD was not available in HD, only in SD. A little further investigation and, sure enough, the program guide lists America’s Top Model will be showing on the HD Fox instead of SYTYCD. Huh? So I emailed Dish about it and got the following response:

Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience and confusion caused by this issue. Unfortunately, CW is not available in HD which will be showing the programming. FOX is airing CW’s normal programming and CW is airing FOX’s. Because of the swap there have been programming changes. CW will be showing standard definition programming that used to air on FOX as HD

Ok, so that cleared that up!