Instead we get to see stupid rumours about Apple things that have so little substance that they are laughable. It doesn’t happen with any other company – I’ve never read a blog/news post about Company A sending an email to Company B therefore Company A must be developing product XYZ but that’s what I see on an almost daily basis with so called news reports for Apple.

The current one is that “Apple have a SatNav service in the works” (I’ve seen this on at least 4 sites now) with their proof being that Apple have big data centres an they bought Siri (a voice recognition company) last year ergo they are developing a SatNav service. What??!!! How the heck can a serious journalist even make that link? Hell, even Eddie Izzard or Ross Noble would struggle to link those things together. Has it even crossed their mind that maybe they bought a voice recognition company to improve the existing voice recognition software currently used in their iPhones? Maybe the larger data centre could be a direct link to them doubling the audio previews in iTunes from 30secs to 1min? Or even the fact that they have more and more and more songs, videos, films and tv programmes available to buy/rent in iTunes and so they need more space?

If this annoys me so much I hate to see how I get when the iPhone 5 feature-list ‘news’ start…

An in other news, last month we got a new cat. Rumour has it that because of this we are moving to Chester. There’s a link there somewhere… Go blog it to the world as fact!

Previously I’ve used Blogger.com for my blogging needs but publishing it on my own server – this really annoyed me as there were not only more chances for things to go wrong while Blogger was FTP-ing the files to my site but also Blogger had this wonderful policy that if you used your own hosting you couldn’t use any of the (then) new fancy features that were added around 2004. I carried on using it simply because I’d got used to it… Shear laziness I know!

My last blog ran from February 2005 until February 2008  and spanned 4 jobs (Leeds Uni, Nektar Therapeutics, Dole Dosser, PocketGPSWorld.com/Self-Employed) – feel free to read it here: MaFt.co.uk/blog. It’s been almost 18 months since I last officially blogged. Now I’ve opted to use the mighty WordPress which I’m more than happy with after fiddling for just over an hour. So, expect some changes over the next week or so while I experiment with new plugins, widgets and themes and also get my head around what categories, sub categories and tags to use!
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Listening to: Nirvana – Territorial Pissings
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