I Have Joined The iPhone Club

Actually, the iPod club but I still feel like a iPhone user now.

I bought myself an iPod touch. After years of resisting the whole iPod/iPhone/iPad trend, I have given in and have finally joined the club. I couldn't afford to buy the iPhone outright, and want to avoid getting locked into a two-year contract so I bought the much cheaper iPod Touch instead. The only difference is that I can't use it as a phone, unless I am in a wifi hotspot and use skype.

Now I understand what everyone is going on about. I absolutely lurrrrve my iPod. After a month of having it, I now don't know what I will do without it. I have been so protective of it and scared that it will break. I keep it in a hardened leather pouch and if I am going somewhere where I am afraid that it may get lost or stolen, I wont bring it along. It's too important.

Funny thing is, I don't use my iPod for what it was originally intended for -storing music. I have a few tracks on there, music that I created myself so I can share it if people are interested in hearing my work but other than that, I don't have any music on there.

I don't use it as an mp3 player but I use it for everything else. I have even designed websites from it. Before my iPod, I never knew what all the hype was about. Now I understand.

Before my iPod, I used an Android tablet which was great... Until I got my iPod. I have nothing against the Android operating system, it's fantastic but the actual tablet device was cheap and I had issues with the touch screen. I was amazed by how sensitive the iPod touch screen was, and how easy it was to type on it, even though it is 1/4 the size of my Android tablet.

Yes, that is a picture of myself, taken from my iPod. I have never liked being in front of the camera and have always avoided having pictures taken (unless I have had a few drinks, of course) but if anyone had a look through my iPod, they would think I was a narcissist. It is full of self-portraits and dodgy bathroom mirror pictures where I am dressed up and looking glamorous, but there is a toilet in the background and a wet towel on the floor.

I am very pleased with my purchase. The only thing that I have ever bought that has been more life-changing was my laptop. It's amazing how material objects can change your life, if it wasn't for my laptop, I would have never started working online. Now with my iPod, I can continue working while I am away from my laptop. I just love it.

Two Cleverbots Discuss Philosophy?

I had to share this. A video I came across on youtube where two "Cleverbots" are made to interact with each other.




Classic isn't it? And a little bit creepy.

The idea that these Cleverbots start discussing whether they believe in God or not, is alarming. They go from arguing about being robots, to arguing about God, to arguing about wanting bodies. We're in trouble!

After watching this, my first thoughts were Robot Apocalypse! And wondered if I still had my water pistols locked away in the shed.

Curious, I did a little digging on this Cleverbot thing and found that there was nothing to be worried about. Not yet anyway. The water pistols can stay locked up in the shed, for a little while longer.

I found myself at the Cleverbot website, asking it ridiculous questions trying to out-smart the Cleverbot. It wasn't hard. This Cleverbot thing isn't artificial intelligence at all. It is just a program that has multiple answers stored in its database, and gives you the answer most suited to your question. Nothing new at all, this kind of technology has been around for years.

Part of me is slightly relieved that there will be no Robot Apocalypse, and the other part of me is slightly disappointed. I was looking forward to getting my water pistols out and kicking some robot ass!

I am going to leave you now with my favorite line from the video:

"I'm not a robot, I'm a unicorn"

;-P