I bit the bullet this weekend and upgraded my ageing iPhone 3G to the newly released IOS4 even though I kept hearing of other peoples failures. After all how hard could it be and I do believe that most people do not read or follow instructions well and this was probably the cause of most failures.

I actually kicked it off with the full backup late (11:45pm) on Friday evening hoping to wake up on Saturday morning to a fully updated phone. Ha!

Saturday morning i get up to read the error message on my iMac saying the phone back up had failed! Even though it had gone through a full sync immediately prior to the backup being started.

Ok I thought, all photos, contacts, music and apps were either previously backed up or synced so let’s just do it anyway. So I said continue anyway… both crossing my fingers and wondering where my spare old Nokia was

Just over 90 minutes later I had an upgraded and empty phone. No contacts, texts, photos, apps or music … but it did seem to be more responsive!

I then did a sync and that put all of my stuff back and that was it. What a non-event!

The new folders work well (apart from the max items per folder limit being only 12!) and the new email client is nice to have. Other than that I feel the time to upgrade to an iPhone 4 is fast approaching.

Today I started back with GS, joining the old team I was working with back in 2008. I am really pleased to be back, as I still regard GS as one of the best companies that I have ever worked for.

As of today I am once again seeking work, having finished at Canterbury.  The budgets all spent and they now have to fend for themselves.

Well Christmas has come and gone and we all had a really nice time.  Well by all I mean Ann and I, Gemma Ian and Ryan,, Mary and Alan, Sheila and Chris and Dave and Michelle!  We bought a turkey that was sized like an emu so I am still eating my way through it (it’s a good job that I really like turkey)…

And just because I can here are the latest pics of my grandkids

Well as of today I am no longer “in work”.  Today was my last day with GS … so if anyone is paying attention and knows of any jobs I could do…. in the words of Yosser Hughes “Gissa’ Job!”