I got an iPad last week. It's pretty awesome, although some people at work give me heaps of shit about it being a useless piece of junk. It's definitely expensive in Australia, dare I say even overpriced. Fancy that, a bit of Apple tech that's got a premium price! But I digress...

In any case, now that I've finally caught back up to where I'm meant to be in the Wheel Of Time challenge (yep, finished book 5 before the end of May) I can start to think about doing some programming in my spare time. My fledgling iPhone app can now receive touch events! Next thing to do is to actually process them properly and do something interesting. I was reading the iPhone App Programming Guide. It's quite good, but my other book Beginning iPhone Development is much better at explaining how everything hangs together, and what you actually need to do to receive the touch events.

The apple shortcut keys really shit me, to be honest. Maybe it's because i'm using a windows. Is it too much to ask to have Home and End be nice and inconsistent like windows? i.e. if you are editing text then Home should go to the start of the line, in all other cases, go to the top of the page. Having to press Windows+left/right arrow seems like so much more effort. Switching from ctrl-left/right arrow to alt-left/right arrow is also pretty confusing. /rant

I found a really nice terminal colour scheme though! The terminal in os x is actually readable now :) Just need the windows terminal to be 1/10th as good and it would be awesome.