I was excited to learn there was finally going to be an iPhone with decent storage capacity and a half decent camera with video capability. I was even more excited to hear the pricing when they were first announced – $299USD for the 32GB model. With the current conversion rates that makes it about $370AUD. Great, even with the obligatory “screw the Aussie market and make them pay twice as much as everyone else” rule that should work out to what, $700 or $800 at the most?

Wrong. As the various carriers unveil their local pricing, it’s clear that we will be paying well over a grand for a 32Gb model. “Just get it on a plan” I hear you say? So then I’m paying upwards of $2,400 – over twice the amount over 2 years -? Screw that. I’m going to hang onto my crappy old Nokia for a little longer.

I love Apple products but this is just plain extortion. Will someone please launch a half decent, half the price competitor?

Now that Mattsarah.net and WordPress are playing nicely I will be making some changes to the website in the coming weeks. In the interim my Resume and Portfolio are still available.

I’m not sure what happened during the first WordPress install but something went wrong and Mattsarah.net was looking decidedly empty. So I’ve swept out the server and started over. This time I’ve brought across all of the old Blog postings from Blogger. Once again I can read all about my European holiday in 2005. Actually that was a bad idea – I’m getting kinda depressed. I wonder how much leave I have owing at the moment??

Surviving an expedition to the supermarket can be tough. Luckily western civilisation has finally gone old-school and started packaging six-legged bundles of energy otherwise know as insects. I’m a little disappointed the ants don’t come with a magnifying glass so you can toast them yourself.

http://www.edible.com/shop/browse.php?cmd=showdepartment&sectionId=23

And he has a slick new website:
http://www.007.com/

http://www.porte-voix.com/index.html

http://www.studiospooky.tv/Vertical/StudiospookyWebsite.html

Not exactly the kind of design work I aspire to, but still, it’s very impressive. Check out Lysergid.

Absolutely gorgeous work from Sean at Aeriform. I wish I (a) had clients like this and (b) could produce work like this.

OK so I’m a little biased as I have grown up with a passion for Lego, but this really is a beautiful idea…

Lego Employees Have Minifigs as Business Cards (and a Great Sense of Humour).

Make sure you check out the video at the bottom of the page. It makes light of the Death Star realities you never got to see in any of the Star Wars films. It reminds me of a scene from a film (I can’t remember the name) where someone points out that when the Death Star was under reconstruction in the Return of the Jedi, it would have been largely occupied by contractors. Therefore the Rebels were responsible for the loss of a great many innocent lives (or were they truly innocent if they took a job on the Death Star??).

While we’re talking about the Death Star and Lego, check out this Lego Death Star. O to be a kid again…