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More and more I wonder why apple chose to not ship the iPhone safari with a flash player support, seems crazy to me considering the multimedia capabilities of the phone and the fact a LOT of websites depend on it (I couldn’t access the lego online shop on my iPhone recently) . One excuse I heard from Apple is that the touch interface would not work with most Flash media but I don’t buy this. Steve Jobs has been critical of Flash for the iPhone in the past, suggesting that the mobile version of Flash isn’t powerful enough for the iPhone, and that the Mac version is too bloated for mobile gadgets - I don’t buy this either…Nokia have a version of the Flash player running on their handsets fine. From the Adobe camp we hear “We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we’ve made to date.” This is bollocks too…mainly because this should have been sorted out a long time ago before even the 3G shipped. On top of this and to my amusement I saw on the BBC today a story about how Apple’s latest iPhone ad is misleading because it does not offer ‘The full Internet” on the phone, the ASA has received complaints from consumers claiming that lack of support for Flash and Java means that not all parts of the internet are available on the iPhone. Well if the rumours and press statements are correct we can expect a Flash player for the iPhone soon, but I am not so confident due to Steve Jobs arrogance and bad relationship with Adobe. Shame because this would improve the iPhone browsing experience considerably for us (the people who pay handsomely for the device and app content), maybe another recent example of Apple not caring too much about their customers and product quality?

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One of the things that first grabbed my attention when I first visited Germany was the high profile of two characters that were unknown to me called Max and Moritz. There appearance is quite disturbing, punkish hair-do’s and rather evil little faces. On further investigation I found out that these two characters are are embedded into the German psyche and culture and seem to be some kind of dark symbol of the naughty potential of children and a moral tale of what happens to them (getting ground to bits and fed to ducks. Wilhelm Busch who wrote/illustrated the tales must have had a black humour indeed, the seven tricks that the boys play on unsuspecting victims are both entertaining and morbid. My favourite almost Kafkaesque one is the story where the evil duo plant a sack load of May beetles onto their uncles bed whilst he is sleeping. Recently I saw (with one of my daughters) a recreation of this story in real life at Ludwigsburg castle (photo above) - it scared the living daylights out of us. It made me think of how times change and what was deemed appropriate for a young audience in the mid 1800’s is certainly not now, I think my daughter and I will stick to Bob the builder…

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Isaac Hayes is sadly dead. A great man and inspiration he helped to establish the tough yet sensual stance many of todays rappers use to gain mainstream appeal. His breaks were over used by diverse artists including Portishead and the powerful image of him and his gold jewellry will stay with me forever. Isaac will be missed.

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