Ipad-dling

The newest Apple product, the Ipad, is without a doubt the biggest waste of money ever. How do I quantify this? Well its like a mix between a macbook and an Iphone, in theory awesome but in actuality fairly awkward and forced. It could be compared to a liger, a half tiger half lion, in theory it should be the king of all animals and a potential new dominant species. In reality it is a sick experiment which created a hybrid with a short life expectancy and severe genetic problems.

This is the same with the Ipad, for me it seems like an awkward stopover between the the Iphone 3G and the Iphone 4. They realise that due to the popularity of the iphone 3G, and the mass use of it, that people are unlikely to be able to justify getting a new Iphone when their 3G works perfectly well. This is where the Ipad fits in, this beautiful (yet kind of retarded) Rapunsel, throwing down her hair for all technophiles and pretentious douches to climb up and increase Apple's profits even more.

Having seen Ipads, I came to realise that they are awkwardly sized and fairly difficult to use. Maybe useful for long train journeys to keep you entertained, but if you are likely to try and use them for anything practical then this may well result in a crooked back and an expensive orthopaedic bill. That's the beauty of a laptop that an Ipad doesn't give you, it is the 90 degree useage, that it has this perfectly formed shape whichallows you to sit with it on your lap, on a table or almost anywhere that you care to use it. That is the reason that the shape has been around for the past 15 years.

The one advantage that I can see for the Ipad is in its mobility when being used around and office, it can be used to take notes or it can be used to maybe create drawings whilst walking around. I get the feeling that there may be a cheap

er option to this though...

This may be slightly cheaper than the newer version that can also do the same thing that your laptop has been able to do for the past 5 years...

So if you feel like wasting £887, go for an Ipad, if you want to save your money and maybe wait to get your electronic rocks off with the Iphone 4 then just buy a clipboard and stick with your laptop.

Back in the field

So turns out that moving back to Kent has suddenly become boring. With the concept of never moving back to a mouldy and slightly overpopulated student area forever dissapated I am forced into a world of twee cottages, bleating sheep and German tourists. The family thing is good for a while, however my house has become less of a family space and more of a family plus four random foreign people having sex in the rooms below me.

Thats right, I have come back to a half house half bed and breakfast complete with a shelf of the fridge totally out of bounds, the constant threat of having guests with a baby and the fantastic idea that I am awoken during the night every time somebody uses the en-suite below me. Oh, and I have no bathroom to use. Thats right folks I have the use of four rooms in a house of eleven, and those rooms are all subject to a harsh noise limit.

According to my parents though I have nothing to complain about because I don't have to pay any rent whilst I'm staying here and if I don't like it then perhaps I should get a job and move out. This is a fair point, apart from the fact that in order to make my three year £20,000 degree worthwhile I need to do an internship to get a decent job. So this will be at least three months of having no money, not being able to go out due to this problem, leaving with strangers in my house and arriving home with strangers in my house. The next three months are going to be financial hell and this financial hell will coincide with no social life, no loud noises and constantly being woken up by people with weak bladders.

I had planned on making my general outlook on life more positive, but it appears that won't be happening anytime I am living in this house for the next six months.