Congratulations to JJ & Penny on the official launch of their new business venture. Penny’s Arcade sells a collection of stylish accesories and unique art that are perfect for treating friends, yourself or your home. The launch party was a great success with a combination of great products, fantastic food and excellent company.
Both Mel and wish them every success and are sure this is the start of something big.
It seems like an age has passed since iPhones first hit the (US) shelves at the end of June 2007, followed hot on the heels by the release of the iPhone 3G. A long time to wait when you’ve wanted one from day one.
But it’s been worth the wait (missing out on the majority of functional issues and questionable 3G network availability to begin what is (hopefully) 18 months of iPhone goodness. Sure 18 months is a long time but no longer than previous mobile contracts, in fact it’s pretty much the norm nowadays.
So a trip to the Apple shop in Birmingham, and around about an hour wait/setup process later and out I walk with the very own 16GB iPhone in white. Rather than pay the £159 for the phone on the £35 a month tariff I opted for the £59 phone cost on the £45 a month tarrif.
This actually works out very slightly cheaper as O2 let you change tariff after 9 months, so dropping to the £35 a month tariff at this time means the first 9 months will have cost you £90 more than on the lower monthly payment, but you’ll have saved £100 on the purchase of the iPhone, and you’ll have benefited from the higher amount of call minutes and texts per month on the higher tariff. Nice.
Okay so it’s still expensive and I do have a typical male obsession with gadgets but I’m normally pretty good with my choice of gadgets so I’m hoping this won’t prove to be the exception. More to follow.
Feels like we’ve been here before, but we’re fans of second chances. Well sometimes we are anyway, so in that spirit we’re going to give blogging another go. Yeah I know we’re way way way behind the times but whenever we’ve tried this before something always got in the way, or we lost interest quickly.
So the sites back, with the old garbage cleaned out and a fresh new look thanks to those nice people at WooThemes. In the past we’ve always wanted to design our own theme, after all we’ve both worked as designers so why not? Whenever we’ve tried in the past we’ve simply run out of freetime and/or patience so the whole things ends up scrapped before it’s even begun. This time round we’ll bow to the expertise and creativity of others and concentrate instead on the content, maybe sometime in the future we’ll give the design side another go, but not just yet.
