@UK31337 Sainsbury's needs to get in on this game.

Imagine what the Sainsbury's Basic's version would be like: white 3G 8GB in a plain cardboard box with an orange stripe and something passive aggressive like "slower and older, but still an iPhone!" written in nice lettering across the bottom. Also, can you really "Taste the Difference" when it comes to consumer electronics? The mind boggles...

I live in London, so I know the problems with this app firsthand (although, I'm sure many worldwide city-dwellers do as well). The main issue is that it requires you to hold your iPhone out in front of you for extended periods while lost. The one time I used my iPhone, even clandestinely, to navigate in London, it attracted the wrong kind of attention, and I was mugged. Imagine throngs of tourists/lost people holding their iPhones right in front of their faces while walking around strange neighbourhoods. What's more, this app only shows you where the station is as the crow flies. London is a rabbit warren of alleyways and cul-de-sacs. Knowing that the station is "over there" is incredibly useless unless you know which streets to take. All that said, though, the technology behind this app is very cool. I just wish that it debuted in a... more thought out format.

Baron was actually commenting on the first post nearly two years after it was put up. Parens mine:
Baron @ Jan 9th 2006 2:13PM
I have yet to see one of these [T-Flash cards] "in the wild," as it stands, SD is really the smallest card I've seen in use...
Those poor bastards of three years ago! Myself? I haven't seen a full size SD card in a long while...

Also, I love that the first Micro SD (T-Flash) cards came in "32MB, 64MB, and 128MB varieties." Nowadays 1GB is pretty standard, and they go up to 16GB!

Happy birthday, guys! We've been through a lot together in these past five years. I can't wait to see what the next five years (let alone the next five months) bring...

I just use my iPhone. Safari pointed to cooksillustrated.com*, the Units app standing by for conversion, the Clock app's timer... er... timing, and the iPod entertaining me while my stuff bakes (or, better still, the Remote app controlling my iTunes music library which is being piped to my Airport Express, connected to the speakers atop my fridge). Is it "kitchen-safe"? Well, I can always pop it in my pocket when the going gets rough. All that for the price of this thing.

*The best/geekiest recipe site on the face of the earth. Seriously.

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

I think the assumption is that if you're only willing to pay $80 for a PAP, you probably won't be forking out for 3rd party earbuds. I feel like I have to say this every time, but this isn't meant for people like us; i.e. people who chuck the pack-ins the second they get the device. Most people are satisfied with Apple's earbuds, and so they should be: they're some of the best pack-in earbuds out there, and sound really great for their price.

I'll never forgive CDs for killing off wax cylinders. Luckily, some of my favourite artists are still releasing onto the format: Relevant Elephant, Rayon Mammoth, Bunker Sorbet... The fidelity of that lo-fi, crappy analogue sound is just amazing!

Why does this sort of stuff always happen to bloggers? It's like people with an in-built audience and a modicum of tech-savvy are prone have terrible, random defects with their computers.

"He sure is ugly, though."

Woah, AJP! That's a blast from the past! (the past being two-odd years ago).

AJP Abdul Kalam actually visited the town where my boarding school was located (Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu), but he came when our school was /out of session/! He visited the other school in the town, instead. We had the worst luck when it came to VIPs: the Dalai Lama offered to come to our 100th anniversary celebrations, but some dolts in the administration refused to change the date of the celebrations to fit his schedule...