Most of my Christmases came at once

Yesterday our solution to the iMac’s storage problem arrived: a 120GB Maxtor hard drive with 8MB cache. Yum. Now I just have to work out how to migrate the data from old to new…

Today my new mobile phone arrived. It’s a Sony Ericsson T630, which I’ve got with (effectively) free line rental for the first 12 months of an 18 month contract. I only wanted it for the Bluetooth facility, so that I can sync with the iMac, but I get to take part in the camera-phone/MMS revolution as well! It should make my Palm redundant, as this phone (unlike the T68) has a full address book facility, rather than just phone numbers and email addresses as, even though this phone doesn’t have postal address support per se, it’s possible to munge it, apparently.

I was watching an Apple Powerbook 15” (550MHz with combo drive) on Ebay, that eventually went for £320. We couldn’t afford it right now (despite the Christmas bonus) but it bodes well for the state of the second-hand Mac market, which until quite recently was overpriced.

But the biggest Christmas present of all (so far) was hearing our baby’s heartbeat at the clinic last Friday! It brought a tear to Kathy’s eye, and put a massive grin on my face. Life changes for ever next June…