My Life on the Net

First ever woosy poem ever which came out by complete accident.  I was actually writing one of those dear… letters that I do once in a while [1] [2] [3] but after finishing it I noticed I was ryming, changed it a little, and came up with this.

And here was me thinking that Higher English wasn’t worth a thing…

This week I talk a little drunkenly about the ideas of consumerism in our daily lives.  Short, sweet and hardly edited.

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If you thought that I, geek extraordinaire, would miss the WWDC you’d be greatly mistaken. I even fine tuned my computer setup for extreme visibility - IRC chats detailing the show and chats about it’s products were on one screen, social media sites on another and on my laptop stood Leo Laporte getting a live feed of the conference and discussing it on TWiT Live.

What can I say, I love Apple.

Before the conference I was thinking that I wouldn’t get an iPhone. My current phone works well, the only downside is the music player lacks any real help.  That’s why I have an iPod Touch to keep me going… and I’ve loved it.

But when I got the text message through detailing the iPhone’s 8GB price through twitter I went speechless. £99! My iPod cost more than that!  That’s when I thought… it’s time to upgrade.

While £99 is a extremely cheap price for anything as high quality as Apple tech, I see what they’re doing. Apple does get a lot of money from the contracts of the iPhone and a contract of £35 a month is fairly steep when somebody like myself spends only £3.63 a month on 600 minutes and 500 texts (cashback baby! [so technically I'm paying £30... what of it?])

Despite having no real connection to the Reality Distortion Field, I began making calculations… Ok.. o2 have a set contract of 18 months for £35 per month.. that’s… £630!  For the same deal (but without internet) I have to only pay £65!  It’s a shocking difference for a student life and made me consider how much owning another piece of Apple tech is really worth it and would a job over the summer fuel my habit.

However, o2 have been extremely smart in my opinion by offering a pay-as-you-go offering of the iPhone (but no pricing as of yet). Since I am already part of the great o2 network–I could still get my iPhone and yet have the good deals offered by e2save.com (The web browsing bolt on costs £7.50 a month - so I hope it’s still worth it).

Something tells me that on July 11 the iPhone (either the contract or pay-as-you-go version) is going to be extremely hard to come by in the UK.  However, since my birthday is only 11 days afterwards I have to tell my family that if they all came together to buy this for me… I’d love ‘em. [hint hint]

Most people could have thought I’ve been dead for the past two weeks. While most of people could have accounted this to a cold, it was worse than that.  It was a mix of procrastination, relaxation and a busy schedule.

I know. Shocker.

While the next few weeks are completely unknown - I could be in a job, abroad, whatever–it looks like my idea of having my holiday as a true vacation isn’t going to happen (It is a 3 month vacation anywho…). I’m prepping for anything and it looks like I’m not going to be bored. I’ll be checking the field and I’ll hopefully have more to talk about as things go on.

It’s not like me to actually talk about my life on this blog, but until I’ve recovered from the past two weeks I’ll recap some of the awesome stuff I’ve been doing when I haven’t been sleeping.

Later.

Two weeks out and trying to get back into the habit. This week was a recap of some of the ideas faced, and a few updates to the blog post Hope I Cope with my Dyslexia.

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