It’s been a while since I posted anything so this is a bit of a mish mash update.
The holiday in Madeira was excellent. In particular the Monte Palace gardens which included an excellent exhibition of minerals, I bought the book and one on madeiran cooking too. Although the latter was bought at the airport as it was rather too expensive elsewhere. The minerals book is pricey but has excellent photos and can’t be found anywhere else. Check the binding of it though as the first one I got was degraded. They swapped it and apologised profusely though with no hassles. Photos are up on flickr. I might post really heavily edited highlights sometime.
Rewriting my code for the iPad has taken a bit longer. Mostly due to design decisions I made when coding it for the iPhone. Particularly the parsing of messages between objects, changing the way views are presented (image pickets etc), and realising where NSNotificationCenter would be more appropriate than delegate protocols. Progress is steady now though.
Laughs in the Park was excellent with Eddie, Dylan Moran and Reginald D Hunter. Took my dad along to it and a great time was had. All were funny with Eddie seeming to relish the telling of his roman material amongst roman ruins and Dylan Moran just being on fire. Hunter made some excellent observations/jokes too. All in all wonderful stuff. A friend of mine even bought out some VIP passes which was a pleasant change from the rather cold field during the breaks.
Flew up to Aberdeen on Sunday to help a mate with the rather horrible task of sorting out her fathers house since his passing in February. Driving back south tomorrow. Looong drive time.
Also just watched the girl with the dragon tattoo. Excellent adaptation of the book, although it shied away from blomqvists promiscuity a bit which I feel is important in lending the relationship with slander more depth.