I'm teaching my iPhone & iPad training course in the UK in September. The three-day class, titled A Modern Introduction to iPhone & iPad Development will take place in Brighton on Stepmber 15-17, 2010.

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Last Wednesday, I gave Twitter a break for a few days so I could examine its impact on my life. The experience has been rather enlightening.

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Both times I attended SXSW I've wanted to stay on for the music festival – I think I'm finally going to this year. One of the cool things about SXSW is that it includes Interactive, Film, and Music under its umbrella but it does feel like the three are still somewhat disperate. Which is surprising to some degree since most web/interactive geeks I know either are musicians or have been involved with film and other mediums in one capacity or other.

So, I was thinking, why don't we invade SXSW Music in 2012 (it's too late for 2011) with a band of our own? A Geek Robot Superstar band or something (I don't know where the "Robot" bit came from, really.)

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I'm going to be attending SXSW 2011 this year and if you'd like to hear me talk about designing for humans (User Experience/Experience Design/Emotional Design), please take a moment to vote for my panel: The Art of Emotional Design.

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Tonight, I watched the first episode of Sherlock on my Apple TV. And ordered pizza from a lovely independent Pizzeria here in Brighton called La Cucina. I also did a whole host of minute things that I would normally have broadcast to my five-thousand-something followers on Twitter in 140 character chunks. The difference tonight was that I didn't.

In fact, earlier today, a tweet I saw from Paul Lloyd was the last drop that made me decide to give Twitter a short break:

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