Crap...

Update - Ok, it's now 3:00 San Antonio time. The site is back and so is all the info on my iPhone including a whole mess of those cool new free apps. As we speak, I am controlling iTunes on my laptop from my iPhone using Remote... Sweet!

Here's what happened: iPhone glitches derail Apple's launch event magic.

I don't know why Apple didn't simply let those with the original iPhone upgrade to 2.0 a day or two before this morning's massive G3 debut...

My iPhone is officially a brick for the time being - I can only imagine how many meetings and deadlines are gonna be missed as a result.

So much for my 9:45 conference call...

Forget the Genius Bar, who needs a beer?

That's A Drag...

HMK

And while we're all waiting for access to the iTunes Store, why not crank up this appropriate little ditty from Mr. Johnny Bond: Day Drinkin'...

Government Branding: Doh!

The UK Office of Government Commerce is:

Responsible for improving value for money by driving up standards and capability in procurement

Now, let's see, how would you improve value for money? I know! An expensive branding exercise. That'll do it.

So FHD, the prestigious London branding agency, has been brought in to devise, among other things, a new logo. And here, courtesy of The Register, it is:



When it was presented to OGC staff it didn't take long for them to look at the new brand logo (emblazoned on mouse mats and so forth) from all angles:


Apparently they are pressing ahead with it anyway. A spokesman for the OGC said (I kid you not) this: We concluded that the effect was generic to the particular combination of the letters 'OGC' - and is not inappropriate to an organisation that's looking to have a firm grip on government spend.

That's Right,

HMK

Big thanks to Daniel Finkelstein at: The UK Times.