Just a short post to say that I am now the proud owner of an iPhone3G – indeed this post has been made using it. Of course it will take a little time to get used to the keyboard, but I’m loving it!
How long should I wait for an iPhone? It’s been over 3 months since I put my name on the waiting list at my ‘local’ store and still no sign of a 16GB black one, so I rang customer services to see if they could speed things up a bit. It didn’t go well.
Let me be clear about this: I’d like to buy an iPhone3G but I don’t really want to lose my current number. It’s not rocket science.
I’ve been an O2 customer for well over 8 years now. In that time I think I’ve had one upgrade, probably about 5 years ago. My monthly bills are small, but I was eligible for a silver upgrade, at least until everything changed in the ‘O2 Upgrade Fiasco’ a couple of weeks ago.
From tomorrow, 29th September, those wishing to use the recycling facilities at Mayo County Council’s Civic Amenity Sites will have to pay €2 per visit (for cars). This is in addition to the €5 per bag for domestic waste.
Mayo County Council obviously have funding problems, no doubt in part due to the current economic climate and concomitant downturn in revenues from taxation, levies etc.. However, attempting to bridge the gap by taxing consumers who wish to recycle is surely the wrong way to go. Clearly the Council sees these ‘recyclers’ as a soft target.
Sunday’s F1 GP at Spa, Belgium, was one of the most exciting races in recent memory, but subsequent events heaped ridicule on the sport.
As seems to be the norm, Ferrari and McLaren dominated proceedings and, with the exception of a slippery first couple of laps, the race settled down into the usual processional event, although there was a lot of overtaking in the midfield to keep a bit of excitement going.
Unusually, however, the order at the front started to tighten up as the race entered it’s final third. And then came the rain. It’s a shame, but this is just about the only thing that really livens up F1 these days. Suddenly cars were slithering round corners and Lewis Hamilton, a bit of a rain king, was taking massive chunks out of Kimi Raikkonen’s lead in every sector.
Despite the praise from some quarters for Hermann Tilke’s track design and the overtaking opportunities afforded by it, today’s inaugural F1 GP in Valencia was not one of the most exciting races we’ve seen. A great lap on Saturday put Felipe Massa on pole and a flawless ‘lights to flag’ drive today saw him take a comfortable victory, which even the flying Lewis Hamilton was unable to threaten.
As far as racing is concerned, there was very little action anywhere in the field, with strategy and mistakes being responsible for most of the small amount of excitement.