— is the blog of Amit Karmakar about photography & life in Sydney, Australia
I love Friands! I simply L-O-V-E friands. You get the idea. Friands are those magic things that make your afternoons easy, it makes a cup of tea even more satiable and a worrying mind more at peace. It must be comfort-food for it does release a lot of endorphins for me. A café across from where I work sells Friands and while they are OK, $3.50 for a rather average Friand leaves a lot to be desired. I still indulge in the ocassional binge.
Its not much of an original post when you copy paste information, but sometimes you *have to* remind giants that sleep at the wheels inconveniencing and killing healthy competition and growth in the IT industry. Yes you guessed it I’m talking about Microsoft. Minutes ago I got an email from Campaign Monitor and The Email Standards Project. And soon I post the message you’ll know what I mean. I quote:
Microsoft have just confirmed they plan on using the crippled Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position and no background images. Not to mention the long list of bugs and quirks that break the simplest of layouts.
The lovely D had bought tickets to watch Steel Magnolias at the Seymour Centre. What a heart-rendering story it is. Even though you know the outcome, it just engulfs you in a ball of emotions. The joy and elation of life, the comfort and warmth of true friends and sisterhood juxtaposed in the lives of these amazingly simple and loving women bring about a transformation of tears and laughter all at the same time — its hard not to love this play! Even having watched the movie I’ve to say ‘the play’ brings forth the ‘elixir’ of this trememdous sisterhood in the cast. Ana Maria Belo, Marian Frizelle, Jennifer Hagan, Debra Lawrance, Geraldine Turner & Jacki Weaver bring this to light with impeccable perfection and consistently. I couldn’t but stop and think of my time in North Carolina and the hospitality I was offered by almost every single person I’d met during my sojourn. They say: Southern hospitality is an amazing thing. It is something that a lot of people talk about and hear of. I’ve been so blest to have been able to experience it first hand and it sure surfaced in my mind while watching this gorgeous play.
Very beautifully executed. What a masterpiece.
The iPhone OS 3.0 software update is here. While I must admit I havent played around to check every little update feature yet, the Spotlight search in itself is a big time saver. Cut, Copy & Paste alone save a lot of retyping and mulling over dreaded typos. That is a mega saver, add to that the fact you can type in Landscape which implies lesser typos. Voice Memos – brilliant idea, Internet Tethering will be another hidden gem when you want to get connected easily.
Updating the new software for iPhone was absolutely pain-free and it was over in a couple of minutes. Apps seem a lot more responsive and start and close quicker. The only downside some apps in the App store are still not OS 3.0 ready but thats just a matter of time. 
Go get your update, its worth it.
My only concern was if Flight Control didn’t work — but it DOES just fine! Just between you, me and the gatepost my score last night was 87! 
At long last I’m a proud iPhone owner and like the rest who has tapped into the power of iPhone I am in sheer, awe, delight and joy of this marvel of technology!
Think I’ve done well to fight the temptation for a whole year since they were available in Australia around July 2008. Over the years I’ve had quite a range of mobile handsets but nothing has ever come close to the goodness of what apple brings in an iPhone. Really nothing comes close or is comparable to the iPhone! It is a masterpiece. A marriage of technology and superb interface. It is a love story of epic proportions if such a phrase could be used to describe a ‘gadget’. it just is! I’m truly floored by the design, the finish, the response, the crazy addictive App Store where thousands of people across the globe write jaw dropping Apps. It has considerably cut down my time in front of the computer! And dare I say I’m loving every bit of iPhone juice I can have.