So here we are in late February, and it starts snowing like a bitch.

Denmark, being in northern Europe, having a month or two of clear weather every year, unless there’s a rainy summer.

At any rate, it’s snowing, quite a bit, but not like a whole meter of snow, oh no, it’s snowing alright, but then again, Denmark should in theory be ready for the snow.

But guess what. No trains, no busses, children are advised not to go to school, the roads are all full of ice. Kinda like last year.

This house is falling apart piece by piece, literally.

The washing machine broke a few months ago, the phone lines sometimes spontaniously choose to take a holiday every now and then, and the electricity has a life of its own.

Just a few days ago, the noisy vent in the bathroom started making sparks, which knocked out the power for 10 hours. The technicians never came.

The lights in the kitchen used to play tricks on me, go out of sync (some lights would turn on when the others turned off and vice versa.) Funky.

Now, the internet connection is down. I don’t know why, but a lot like the rest of the infrastructure around here, I can just assume a solution. It has a life of its own, just like the rest.

Right now I’m using my dear neighbors’ wi-fi. The Linksys family, as their SSID advertises.

And now as I am writing this post, my space key began making this strange wheeing sound whenever I press it with my left thumb, but not with my right thumb. Come on!

Now this is strange.

Apple releases this brand new product, which they proudly present as a smartphone, but not just a smartphone, one hell of a smartphone. They pack it with awesome features, put a lot of money and effort into it (apparently two and a half years) and guess what - the shoot themselves in the leg by not letting the iPhone run 3rd party applications.

It could have been a great PDA, but guess what, they ruined it. Come on, Apple, you can do better than that! Third-party applications are what keeps a platform alive. Seriously. Didn’t Steve Jobs thank third party developers for their great job on migrating to universal binaries? Ridiculous.

Is Apple trying to make their own products fail on purpose? I don’t get it!
There’s no way I’m buying an iPhone (or whatever they’re gonna call it after losing the lawsuit) if it can’t run 3rd-party applications.