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Don't muck about - just do it!

Received my iPhone yesterday with the added bonus that O2 have beefed
up the tariff - which is good news! Now you still pay 35 quid a month
but you get 600 as opposed to 200 minutes and 500 instead of 200 texts
and all the data you can use. I had made the decision based on other
criteria but now there's no excuse!

Sent from my iPhone

help - I can't justify buying Apple...

... but I want to buy an iPhone (but the good news is I'm just coming out of contract and can move to O2 - the bad news is I have a PDA which has SatNav on and I don't think I can port my TomTom)

...and now they've launched the MacBook Air which would require me to re-buy all my real legitimate licensed Microsoft products or run them in a virtual install of Windows - in whiich case what's the point??

And I can get a similar spec Dell PC (basically an upgrade to my current 3 year old decent spec laptop) for slightly over half the price.

But it's not as pretty! I'm conflicted - please help!

reduce, reduce and reduce...

Just finishing off my Xmas magazine stack by the bed there was a short piece about Evan Williams (of Blogger and Twitter fame).

His approach to developing new products and approaches is "what can we take away to make something new" ... and the examples are "removing all the clutter on the Yahoo home page 5 years ago gives you Google today" of "remove all the content from blogging except the point and you get Twitter".

I love it.

I'm going to start tomorrow and reduce, reduce, reduce. Particularly on the project management system implementation I'm running currently which is getting fat. Reduce the UI, reduce the complexity, reduce the difficulty.

In't it great when a short article changes the way you think about things!