This is the second time it’s happened and it’s as weird as the first. On the bus this morning I was reading the latest issue of MacUser (nice magazine redesign, shame about the old-style Mac typeface in the logo) when I find myself reading about myself.
Back in the real world, Tom Coates has been blogging from his trip to Los Angeles, lamenting the lure of the Apple Store and that all-so-familiar dilemma of need versus want. “The shoes that I needed to replace last year at ETCon are still firmly on my feet. And I have no new clothes of any sort. I do, however, have an enormous pile of stuff from the AppleStore and a desperate salivating urge to go back and blow another £200 on a new iPod. I only wish I could claim to be surprised by this turn of events.
Weird. In case anyone is interested, I did not buy an iPod after all, although I kind of wish I had. I bought an iSight, which I can recommend whole-heartedly, some Apple earbuds that sucked ass with such commensurate skill that they should set themselves up with a business catering to the needs of Hollywood celebrities, and some rather useful and not-available-here Apple-oriented screen-wipes. Since my return I have bought myself shoes by the same company as my last pair (I’m not a great shoes man) and basically the same green as my last pair went after a couple of years. So in the end, everything worked out OK, I guess…