May 1st, 2009 Add Your Comments Bookmark and Share

Shock, horror, I didn’t win the PublisherChallenge April contest. No big surprise really considering the amount of effort I put into it, life has a way of rewarding you for what you put in. Anyhoo, seeing as how I didn’t win the MacBook I decided to go ahead and buy one anyway (what’s £1200 between friends?) – I feel like writing a few iPhone apps and whilst I’m sure I could bodge together some sort of Apple Emulator on one of the many PC’s I have around the place I thought it would be easier just to buy a proper one, besides we need a new family laptop and Laura loves Macs from when she used them at school. It’s going to be a bit of a learning curve for me, I haven’t used Apple technology since I left school 16 years ago! Do they still only have 1 mouse button?

Secondly, I found out this morning that one of my old friends is due to inherit several million pounds. Remember what I just said about fate rewarding your effort? Well forget it. This lad bummed around at university for 8 years (jumping from one course to the next) before finally getting a bog standard office job. No aim, no drive, no ambition – just plod along. He should pay of his fees sometime in the next century! Well that would be the case if he wasn’t due an inheritance that’s come about from some land being sold from an extended family. So the way to get ahead in life seems to be do as little as you can get away with and fate will look after you. Not that I’m bitter of course, good luck to him I say!

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