If you attended my workshop at Macworld, please send me an email before Tuesday to receive the workshop materials. I will send out an email with the materials on Tuesday, before I leave for Singapore on Wednesday.

And thank you to everyone who emailed me with kind words regarding my session at Macworld. I really appreciate it and I'm very happy that you guys enjoyed it!

Yes, I'm still with Abbey National Business. For the backstory on my hassles with them, see Abbey National Business and Vodafone: Two companies that just don’t “get it” and The last straw: Moving away from Abbey National Business Banking. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to move away because of the hassle it involves. Today, they reminded me why I hate them so much yet again, and why I should make the extra effort to change banks.

When I was in San Fran, they disabled the card on the account. (They still don't understand that I travel.) That's fine, I should have called them previously to tell them I was traveling to be 100% sure they wouldn't do this. That's not the worst thing though. Today (Sunday), I call them to have the card re-activated and I get a message telling me they're closed and I should phone back on Monday. Their telephone banking is closed. You cannot call them even to report a missing or stolen card. This is ridiculous.

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I don't have time to go into detail -- and I'm sure every little detail has been posted elsewhere but it was great to be at the Macworld keynote today. The iPhone is an amazing mobile phone -- I can't believe it'll be end of year until we get it in the UK. I can't wait to trash my Windows Mobile phone the *moment* this baby is released.

My talk went well, by the way. I'll be posting some pics from the keynote and stuff from the talk in the next few days (possibly upon my return to the UK.)

I took notes during the FlashForward keynote at MacWorld today but couldn't post them since I didn't have WiFi in the room. It was a nice keynote and we got some cool sneak peeks at Flash CS3 and Apollo and a fun presentation on Flash on the Wii by Justin. Here are my notes:

I'm sitting in at the FlashForward keynote at MacWorld. Lynda just gave the opening speech and introduced Mike Downey.

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My dear friend Ebru just emailed to say that her debut album is going to be released in two weeks' time in Turkey. The album is titled "Sıradan bir şarki ve sıradan bir şarkıcı", which translates to "An ordinary song and an ordinary singer." Of course, if you knew Ebru, you'd know that there's nothing ordinary about her but the title comes as no surprise: Ebru is one of the most modest people I know; a tiny nuclear reactor of talent somehow contained in a mischievous impish shell. And she sings like an angel!

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