I found this sign recently on a wall here at the Isle of Dogs/London.
You really have to love the Brits and their fantastic sense of humour! When I first looked at the sign, while passing by in the bus, I only saw that the “Anti climbing device” was treated with Anthrax!
Only at the second view I read the last line of the sign..I love it.
I uploaded some more video clips that I took at yesterday’s Paul McCartney concert at the Roundhouse in Camden/London onto YouTube.
Enjoy and let me know what you think.
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I went to the Apple Store in London (Regent Street Store) tonight after work to pick up my copy of the new OS as soon as it became available..and also maybe to get a free T-shirt.
The store closed at 16h00, I guess mainly to allow them to upgrade all of the machines at display in the store to Leopard. I arrived in front of the store at 17h15, and I was expecting to see some people standing in the queue already. Well, yes, that was definitely the case..the queue went already around the whole block!
After having some fun in the queue, especially answering to all those people who passed by asking what we are queuing for, I finally made it into the store at around 18h15. The store was obviously already filled with people, but it was still easy to get my copy of MAC OSX from one of the many apple employees with they hand-held devices, allowing quick and easy credit card sales.
Every single Computer in the store was of course running Leopard already! In the theatre area, one could assist a basic introduction to the new features. But all in all, the most amazing experience was the number of people in the store taking pictures, filming etc…I guess YouTube, Flickr and many blogs will be filled with pictures and Videos covering this.
Well, here is my part…
And yes, I got a free T-shirt..actually even two.
I had the pleasure to go and see Paul McCartney playing live at the Roundhouse in Camden last evening. The concert was part of the BBC Electric Proms and sold out since a long time! It was a wonderful evening. Seeing McCartney live, in a rather small location like the Roundhouse is just amazing! He was performing some of his new songs, but the focus was clearly also on the old classics! Spectacular! Great audience, singing along during most of the songs, and McCartney clearly enjoyed his time on-stage!
Have a look at the following short clip. I captured much more, and will upload some more shortly.
One of the websites I visit on a regular basis is thatguitarman.com. I had the pleasure to see David Ippolito playing his guitar live at the hill in Central Park twice on my trips to New York City a few years ago. Last week, October 9th would have been John Lennon’s 67th birthday. Have a look at the video below to see why I love NYC so much! I don’t know any other place where things like this would happen! To use David’s words: I love the city!
Halo3 has been finally released on the Xbox360. Halo and Halo2 were the best selling games so far on the Xbox platform, and Halo3 is expected to do the same!
Although I am not really a gamer, I have to say that Halo 3 is a nice piece of software. So far I have only tried the single player modes, and it is really nice. The graphics look nice and clean, gameplay is fun and the soundtrack is simply amazing!
Anyway, the guys over at LoadingReadRun have done a video “looking back” at how Halo has changed the world. Fun stuff.
Last Thursday I went to see Herbert Grönemeyer at the Royal Albert Hall here in London. I was kind of hoping that it would be a nice evening, and guess what: It was even better! It was certainly one of the best concerts that I have seen this year!
Grönemeyer clearly enjoyed playing at the Albert Hall, and guess what, the audience was amazing!
Below is a short clip which I took during the concert. I have some further clips,and as soon as I get to it I will edit them together an upload them.
I found the following video on John Dvorak’s Blog, and kind of had to post it here.
One of the comments describes it as it’s best: “I know, it was a bit unsafe… but, Boy!!! Was it COOL? Yeah!”
 
One of the features missing on the iPhone is GPS. I was used to have it on the Nokia N95, and although I didn’t use it very often, it came in handy a few times. Well, the iPhone has Assisted GPS since today. Well, sort of.
When checking for new application within the installer, I noticed a new app called Navizon GPS. I have to say it is rather cool. Navizon calls its Virtual GPS service “Peer-to-Peer Wireless Positioning”. It is based on a database which is populated by users of the Navizon software on mobile phones with a real GPS receiver included. The geo-coded information is then combined with the information received from the cellular network and WIFI networks. This combined information is then available for users of the system without a GPS receiver included in their phone.
It will in most case never be as precise as real GPS, or even the A-GPS on the N95, but it still allows you to locate yor position in a certain area, as long as the area is covered by users with GPS equipped phones in the past.
In my case, the location found by my iPhone was a few hundred meters away from my home here in London. Still very sweet!!!
It was only a matter of time, really. A few hours ago HaRRO, a member of the members (Daeken, Darkmen, guest184, gray, iZsh, pytey, roxfan, Sam, uns, Zappaz, and Zfhad) of the iPhone Dev Team have released an open source and FREE tool which allows you to set your iPhone free from the AT&T lock! Although the process is not yet as easy and automated as the commercial tool from iPhoneSimFree, well, it is free, as in beer! You can find it here.
I guess the guys at iPhoneSimFree and especially some of the their resellers might regret all of the delays that they had before releasing their tool to the market! The days over overpriced unlocking tools are over!
Well, my iPhone is unlocked since some time now (using the TurboSIM method) but anyway: Good for all the other people out there, especially over here in Europe!