• called the local Telefonica store and I was told it will be another month and a half before the iPhone is available #
• Just had my son arrive from his Inter rail trip around Europe #

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• just put in the extra memory in the G4 1.25GHz Mac Mini and 4GB in the iMac - Yeah #
• Next job is to install Leopard on the Mac Mini- BTW the iPhone still not available here in Spain #

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They have no iPhones for sale and don’t know when they will have them in. The rest of the world can buy an iPhone but not here in Spain.

The best the assistant could manage was some details of the price. It seems I can get one for 129 Euro if I get a 2 year contract paying at least 20€ per month on calls and 15€ on data.

Completely useless here in Spain with marketing and selling. They have a whole network of shops and can’t get them in stock.

Totolally disappointed with Telefonica

• nothing on Telefonica web site yet except a form you can fill and have nothing happen. I filled it in a week ago. Its a joke #
• Don’t live in Madridsaw a press release which suggests that for the first few it will only be available in Madrid in the Flagship shop. #

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I started work at 8am and it was going well enough until the guy working with me got himself sacked for stupidity. Easy done - making silly mistakes and getting caught out. So when I was supposed to have 2 hours for lunch I only got 1 hour and that was not enough.

I was able to see online that there was information on the Movistar site about the 3G iPhone but no chance to do anything about it. I would have liked to get inside a shop and see if there were any iPhones in the shop. Managed to get home 7pm after 10 hours of working during the day and I am fit for nothing. I considered looking in a shop on the way home but tiredness had set in and due to the traffic at that time plust it being Friday when all of Girona and Barcelona descend upon the town, I have no wish to find the nearest iPhone shop. I think it may have to wait until Monday.

Mind you that depends on whether I can get away with us being one man down at the camp site in the reception

Other news today dissapointed me was the discontinuation of my favourite Betfair betting software BinarySoft BDI. Excellent software and great for trading. I was thinking about getting a subscription to it at the start of the Premiership. No chance of that now.

• just ordered a 4GB kit for my iMac from Crucial Memory. Now it will fly even faster than it does already #

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• I went to the Telefonica store and the details for cost for the iPhone here in Spain is still secret and tsherwasn’t even sure #
• wasn’t sure if the iPhone would be in store on Friday of Not - Hopeless at marketing here in Spain or it is surely going to be a rip off #

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• Could be the day I set up my podcasting studio in the quiet space upstairs no worries if the telly is playing in living room next door #
• thinking about getting an iPhone but not for myself because my wife whould get better use out one, I could be better off with the iPod touch #

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When Istarted podcasting I used my Mac Mini and I kept on using if for some time after getting my first iMac because it is so quiet in use. I now have a new iMac and still I will be using the MacMini G4 version to do the recording of the podcast. I have it in the rooms upstairs where it is quiet and all I need to do it to work out a way of damping down the echoes from the tiled floor. I can put a screen around me when recording and maybe put a bit of carpet on the floor. That will help things alot.

As for software I am going to try putting Soundtrack pro on the MacMini because I really like the control I have over the recording and editing. If not I will record using Garageband or maybe Audacity. Audacity is the closest to Sountrack Pro for the waveform editing but Garage band gives me the enhanced version of the podcast ready for iTunes.

The Microphone I will use is the Behringer B2 Pro studio condensor mic which I have on the end of a boom in a shock mount. The Microphone is connected to the computer via a Behringer 1002 mixer. Excellent microphone and a nice little mixer desk. I have just bought a Samson C03 U USB condensor mic for use on the main iMac computer in the office and I have heard very good reports on the C01 U which is the predecessor to this one. I did think about getting a Snowball mic from Blue, but in the end I went with my first choice.

I can hear the fireworks being set off in the town still. Well deserved win for Spain and there will be a ton of celebrating here tonight