The Nutless Monkey For the truly gifted.

Why, oh why must we do gardening. In my view the whole shooting match should be Tarmac covered and forgotten about.

Don’t misunderstand me, I get a lot out of doing some small project and have it look good when I’m done, however, it rarely does. Spend time marking out, lining up and levelling but something always seems to be out of line or uneven, even slightly.

I have tried most diy projects and find that to even start the job you have to buy tools, some essential piece of metal that seems to be available in all kinds of variants of what you actually need( the diy retail sector seems to like multi function).

So, you get the tools, get the materials and at this time it’s lunchtime, you start to prep the job when you hit the first problem, then another and then another it goes on and on. So a small job turns into a part finished job and they are the worst type.

When the DIY urge calls, think, think and think again.

The Apple iPad, loved by many, loathed by many but, what really is it? Is it just a large iPhone as some claim, is it an underpowered net book as others claim or is it something more sinister?

First, the bad.

1. No flash support
2. No external connections apart from the proprietary Apple one
3. Extremely divided blogosphere.
4. Closed app environment

The good

1. What it does do, it does really well
2. Just look at it
3. Competitively priced
4. Masses of potential

So an even good bad comparison, there are tons of others but it doesn’t really matter, as criticism of any consumer item it must be judged in the context of the consumer and as such I’d like to run through how I use mine and how it works for me.

Firstly, for personal use, I use it all of the time, for games, browsing, mail, blogging etc I find that it works perfectly well in all these areas. For business it’s even better. Mail, documents, spreadsheets all are portable with this platform, my whole collection of reference manuals in iBooks, articles in good reader and a comprehensive word processor, spreadsheet and presentation package in iWork all converge to my personalized Swiss army knife.

Battery life is great and it is such an intimate tool due to it’s diminutive size.

When Apple declared a new category of computing I, and others, were sceptical, however I truly think they have pulled it off. I now have honest to God workflows for photos, news, email and more.

I guess that iPad 2 will already be on gyre drawing boards if not more advanced wi a slew of ne killer features, I can guess some but it’s the ones I can’t that are most interesting.

Blogging? A nutless monkey could do that and to prove it, here we go.

What to blog about? Well everything and anything really, my loves (Motorcycles, Technology and photography are flavour du jour) and my loathes (the list is almost endless).

Where to start, I think that a quick look at the latest playthings, how I use them and why I use them, what I get out of them and how I have tweaked to suit me, so the list shall commence.

I shall be tweeting daily likes and hates so you can follow me through the link below.