First week back, and after wading through the emails things started to pick up again. Requests for additional builds and repeat work was good. Sad thing was I was sitting in the office by myself for most of the time!

Blogging from the iPhone should be easy but I’m still getting to grips with the keyboard GAH!

May go and see Wall-e tomorrow.

Well about to pick up the beetle, the body shop screwed up as well – there is a stone chip guard called a foil which they forgot to fit. I’m going on holiday tomorrow so they can’t fit it for at least a week, god knows what it’s gonna look like after being on the IoW for a week.

The garage is just sorting out their bill, it’s taking a while…

well here it is.

It’s been a fun week ?!

Car went in for engine work on Monday, they misplaced the keys and I had to run down the spares about 2pm, hence not all the requested work could be compled.

Tuesday, the car went next door to the body shop to have the rear wing resprayed as the laquare was pealing…

Wednesday got a call from the garage saying the original quote from the part supplier was wrong; not £587 but £875 (ish). I told them it was failing and it needed replacing so asked the to continue. An update from the body shop suggested they would be releasing the car Thursday evening to go back to the garage.

Later on Wednesday I get a call from the garage saying that their supplier won’t have the part for 2 weeks! But they had searched around and found one for £497 and they could get the car back to me by Friday afternoon..

I explained I was getting nervous as I was catching the ferry at 2pm on the Saturday and the last thing I wanted was to…

1. Miss the ferry. 2. Get half way down the motorway and the car to fail. 3. Them not being able to finish the car in time and me going on holiday in their rental for £20/day.

So not what I had planned really; should have been – garage Mon/finished, bodyshop Tue-Thu, road test car on Friday…

Just to add a bit of spice for Friday, my mobile number is moving from Orange to O2 so lets hope there is no loss or service!

Yay! i’m gonna need a holiday after this week!

Just had a call from the garage to say they’ve misplaced my car keys and can’t find them – had to drop down my spare set after checking the loan car…

I really hope they find them; the guy remembers me putting them on his desk but now he can’t find them.

Well this is very nice, dropped off the car and popped into St. Anthony’s hospital to pay a bill.

Went into their restaurant to get a coffee and ended up having breakfast in the garden.

Hospital food? Very nice thank you – but it is private… Free WIFI as well.

(YAWN!) Apple is this becoming a habit; have a huge spin on the latest must have gadget and then screw up it’s big day globally.

Yes, the iPhone 3G was released on Friday; and promptly sold out – good marketing, I can see it now "iPhone sold out on 1st day"; if they allocated more than a few at each shop it wouldn’t!.

Of course those who were promised a delivery on the day, were let down a friend of mine was sent a text at 5pm on Thursday to say there was no stock.

Those who managed to get hold of them were once again let down by Apple as the servers that activated the iPhone’s (via iTunes) failed – repeatedly! Once they were up again people were waiting anything between 20 and 40 minutes while the iPhone waited to be activated in-store (new policy – nice one Apple).

Overall it was a global fiasco, bringing disappointed together united and disgruntled.

Myself? Yeah I like was I saw, but I’ll be waiting for the next delivery and moving from Orange to O2.

I’ve upgraded my iPod Touch with v2 of the firmware, and I’m impressed – there are a good selection of Apps, if not a little unstable. My Touch rebooted/crashed about 5 times yesterday as I tried out a number of apps. One thing I have noticed though is the battery life – it seems to of halved which isn’t good. Another strange occurrence I don’t know if its the new v2 software or the new iTunes v7 but every time I dock it insists on doing a full backup which takes about 5 minutes each time – very frustrating!

Well it’s holiday time for me 1st week at home; having some work done on the car, 2nd week back to Isle of Wight, so keep up with the posts guys…

I’m sorry to note that we lost a family member on Wednesday; Anne Kent MBE died in hospital on the 2nd July 2008 leaving two sons John and Peter. Her funeral will take place this coming Thursday.

I don’t really think it’s sunk in for Mum as the oldest out of 2 boys, and 3 girls only the yongest and my Mum remain of the family.

Of course its a sad time for the family, but I prefer not to dwell on the last moments, but look back and enjoy the memories when we were all together as one big family.

It’s nice when you get everything done – went to see Lynne at ACM, the meeting was great! Guy came to replace the windscreen of the Beetle early – check! Took 4 toner carts for recycling to the post office – check, returned the ASUS without any unpleasantness – check!

Need to review my task list from the meeting; looks good though.

Went to see ACM, their web site is coming along nicely and I needed to check to see everything was going well. Now ready to populate the pages with some real text now.

I returned the EEE PC today "not fit for purpose" stated 12GB HDs but really had two drives 4+8GB separate drives, running XP in 4GB is hopeless, applied SP’s and then ran out of space!

Micro Anvika refused that’s the specification on their site were misleading, even though the Linux version clearly describes separate drives. Come on guys, if it stated a 4GB drive and a 8GB drive I wouldn’t of bought it!

They offered a refund less 15% restocking fee, but fortunately there was a problem with the webcam as well which means I may get a full refund – they are currently rebuilding the ASUS (I have done it many times) to see if it will fix the problem; I don’t think it will myself.

I’ll post an update later…

** UPDATE

Well after they tried to rebuild the ASUS with the system restore DVD, they only confirmed there was a problem with the webcam – so I got a full refund – YAY!