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After being out of commission for a few weeks, it’s good to be back on the fixed gear. It’s just a shame On Your Bike tried to screw me over in the process.

I had snapped my chain which in turn bent most of the spokes on my rear wheel. So I dropped off the rim to be fixed and a couple of days later received a called saying I should get all the spokes replaced. I okayed the work and said I would pick up in a weeks time on Monday. Monday rolls around and I get a phone call from them just before lunch saying my wheel is not ready and that I suddenly need a new rim. This seriously hacked me off, simply because I spent ages wondering if I should have used the opportunity to get a new Velocity rim at the same time, but I thought it silly to buy a new rim when all I needed were some new spokes and thus just took it in for replacement spokes. If I’m suddenly going to need a new rim, I’m getting a Velocity. I told them to not replace the rim and that I’ll take the wheel back. Then the cheeky sods tell me I have to pay £15 for deciding not to go ahead with the work! I argued that the work I had agreed on was for them to change all the spokes and for it to be ready on that day. After much toing and throwing, the manager came along and said that I don’t need to pay. Thank Christ. So I took my, now in bits, wheel up to Brick Lane Bikes and got fantastic service. The deep v-rim is rocking. Just a shame they didn’t have any of the non-machined ones in stock. In addition I put some Crank Brother Egg-Beater Cs on and a KMC SP chain. Sexy.

After months and months and months of talking about Macs and OSX, I finally switched. Up until now I’ve held back as the thought of moving to a slower machine never sat right, but now with 3ghz iMacs with 8800gs cards, there is no excuse not to switch. It’s been a week now and I am totally convinced that OSX is far far far far superior to Vista. Using OSX is an experience. It’s like a breath of fresh air in comparison to Vista. The OS feels more polished and applications feel like a lot more care has gone into producing them. One of the features I was looking forward to using was Spaces, but with dual 24″ monitors there is really no need. I have Vista running as a VM incase I need any apps but I haven’t needed it once so far.

Got back from Sardinia a week ago. Nash & Johnny had chosen it as the location for their wedding, and I don’t think they could have chosen a more beautiful place for it. It was a bit of a working holiday though as I had said I would do the photography for the ceremony. Wedding photography is hard work, especially when wearing a suit in 30+ degree weather. I was dripping sweat into the Mamiya whenever I changed a roll. 23 rolls of 35mm, 15 rolls of 120 and about 150 random digital shots, so I’ve got a lot of scanning and Photoshop work ahead of me. The ceremony itself was stunning and the party was great. All-in-all a wonderful experience I’ll never forget.

MGS4 is just unbelievable. It’s the first game I have ever played through twice. First time, I just went in guns a blazing, but on the second run I managed to do a full 0 alert and 0 kill run. This game has just blown everything out of the water in terms of what I thought was a great game. I might even play it again. The story and gameplay are just fantastic. This game alone has made the PS3 worth purchasing.

“Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.” - Lazarus Long

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” - Douglas Adams

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca

My windows install became b0rked a few days ago (from now on, I’m imaging my drive every couple of weeks) and now on my fresh install POP3 doesn’t work. I know I had exactly the same problem before but can’t for the life of me remember what I did to fix it. Ball ache…

UPDATE: Turns out it’s not a Vista problem at all. I should have been logging into my mailbox with the full domain on my username rather then just my username. D’oh.

Now that the iPhone is £169, I just couldn’t resist getting one, and wow, how I wish I had got one sooner. No phone I have ever used or read about comes close to being as feature rich or as impressive as the iPhone. Why spend money on a Nokia or a Sony Ericcson, when you can get one of these babies. My jaw has been constantly hitting the floor since I first got it on Friday. Want to surf the web? With built in wifi it’s no problem and browsing the net on Safari is fracking awesome! My main party piece is loading up the BBC’s iPlayer. The quality is just brilliant.

Everything just works and features just surpass any expections you may have already had. It’s just beautifully crafted and developed. Before I got it I had been saying to everyone that there’s no way I would pay £300+ for an up-to-date 3g version if Apple released one. Now I’m not so sure…