the cole family blarg

I bought myself an apple iPhone a few weeks ago from which I am posting this blog post from now. It is truly an excellent device that will bring some serious competition to the blackberry, and laughs evilly at windows mobile devices.

The large touch screen is clearly an excellent choice as it provides an extra large canvas for information and video. The high resolution display makes reading email easy, and having a decent web browser doesn’t hurt either.

The only part that takes some getting used to is the touch keyboard. It is indeed inferior to having a blackberry style mini keypad, but I do think the ease of use outweighs the difference in typing speed. I think I probably type about 25 wpm on the iPhone vs 35 of so on my blackberry pearl.

Another caveat is IM clients. Since the iPhone does not allow backgroud daemons, any chat client you use disconnects when you switch programs. This hopefully will be fixed with some new functions in September.

Overall though it gets a 9.5/10!

I love when people who obviously have no children balk at the idea that being a stay-at-home parent is easy. If the roles changed suddenly, I guarantee the know-it-all person would be lying on the floor in the fetal position in tears asking the baby to look after him/her.

I was always a better parent before I had kids too.

Grow up.

I tentatively quit my job today in favour of being a stay-at-home mom to Carys. By tentatively I mean that I *told* my boss I’m not coming back. To formalise this, I must follow up with a letter.

I QUIT.

Feels great.

Ammanda