While the world mentally says goodbye to war, famine and injustice while they wait for President Obama to start work, I’ve noticed that all that speculation during the Democratic campaign has proved sound. Obama IS a Mac, and so is Joe Biden too.

I wonder if Barack will be ringing up Al Gore for some Keynote tips?

I’m happy arrogantly assuming that people reading this might like to know what my 10 favourite iPhone apps are. So if you do, read on. If not, then feel free to leave a comment and tell me what I’m missing out on. Perhaps you’re just curious as to why the title of this post is ‘My 10 favourite iPhone apps’ and there are 11 icons here…

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Thank God. New MacBook Pros are out. After my old PowerBook screen disaster, now even the kitchen TV has broken, (probably for the best as doing design on the television was starting to give me a headache) the point is I’ve been very patient – I need a new laptop and I need one badly…

It’s not perfect, while the new machine looks lovely and I’ll be tasting even old features like iSight and BootCamp for the first time, Apple in their infinite wisdom have decreed I must endure an awful glossy screen and that despite my aspirations, I don’t need Blu-Ray after all. None of that makes any difference of course, Steve has got me exactly where he wants me and I’ll be down to the Apple Store first chance I get…

And yes, the component shot above is from the MacBook not the Pro. The MacBook gets all the press…

Here’s a little oddity, it’s the story of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s early Apple days and the creation of the Apple ][, a story we’ve heard many times before, but never in Japanese Manga…

This dates back to 1984 and is the work of Japanese manga artist Mitsuru Sugaya who put the strip on the web on iPhone launch day in Japan. It’s been a while since I studied Japanese so my reading isn’t what it used to be (I think I can still make out some of the kana in there but not much else), but the pictures are pretty special…

Found via 9 to 5 Mac…

Just saw this over at FormFiftyFive very nice. Could form the basis of some great gaming ideas maybe, I’m thinking something along the lines of the excellent Echocrome:

At the least it’s a very cool demo. Come to think of it, there isn’t really a kosher demo scene for the iPhone, would be great to see an experimental visuals section to the App Store full of free goodness, instead of 50 versions of Solitaire…

Thanks to Sean for the link…

Don’t ask me how this happened, it happened. I have come to terms with it now and it’s made me stronger, but it will always be a dark period in my life.

We had good times, we had bad times, we went through a lot. I’d like to think we learned a little about each other along the way.

He had a good innings, of course he’ll never really be dead as long as I remember him…

…if I’m doing some graphic design for you at the moment, there could be some delays involved…