Here is a little bit of comedy education for those of you unfamiliar with “cowbell” and why there is an inherent need for more of it (epically on the internet).

Please watch this clip (and hope that it hasn’t been removed from MetaCafe, and that it actually runs fine).

Now you will know what everyone means by “more cowbell”.

I’m a gadget junkie, I do suffer from a tendency to go out and have the latest and greatest stuff.

I have been interested in the iPhone since its release here, but I haven’t been completely impressed by it and I know that the Blackberry bold is suppose to be an “iPhone Killer” blackberry.

iPhone
Pro:
- cool, is an ipod/phone,
- large screen: very tempting for those of us that put videos onto their ipods.
- web browser seems very good

Con:
- keyboard: the touch keyboard seems difficult to use, apparently you get better at it.
- battery life: owners complain about the short battery life, even less when using the net.
- storage: 16GB max? considering you already offer 32GB touch iPods, it seems lacking.
- no flash support bar YouTube videos: I’m sorry, but your web browser app doesn’t show the web.
- Shitty data allowances for plans with service providers, currently the best option is 5GB from Virgin.

Blackberry Bold
Pro:
- Blackberry push-email: quick, awesome, uses significantly LESS DATA than iPhone.
- Killer battery life: 3 days on a single charge.
- Keyboard: you can write essays with a blackberry keyboard.
- Unlimited data packages with service providers: UNLIMITED !

Con:
- Screen size: still very small in comparison
- Music?: probably not as easy as the whole ipod & itunes system.

Summary:
While neither really seem all that awesome, in a “I must have one this second” kind of way, the iPhone is definitely a tempting offer. I want a big screen for viewing videos, I would love to be able to play music through it. I need a big storage capacity (30GB or more). Battery life would be important, but as long as it can last a day, thats all that matters.

I think that I’ll wait and see what the next generation of iPhones look like. I think it needs to have;
- more storage
- better battery life
- better functionality (flash/java/shockwave support)

This is my favourite poem, its called “If” by Rudyard Kipling;

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!