I tried to attach a photo but that didn’t work. Apparently you need to make a folder in wordpress writeable. You can take a photo with your phones camera and add it to the post which is nifty.

The app even tells you your battery life and signal. Nice one. Get the wordpress application now in the blackberry app store.

I searched around the web for a while until I found a way to download evernote to a Blackberry Storm. The Evernote site was of no help really. They seemed to bury the links deep in the site. But I did manage to find them!

Here are the links for Blackberry Storm and non-storm Blackberry’s:

BlackBerry (non-Storm): ZIP | OTA: http://s.evernote.com/bbota
BlackBerry Storm: ZIP | OTA: http://s.evernote.com/stormota

Simply enter those URL’s in to your phones browser and download the app. I’ve got it working on my Mac and my Storm. Very simple. Brilliant application. Lovely environment.

Read the open letter from OKGo for more info on the whole situation with the Label and YouTube.

Now, the reason that I am quite intrigued by this particular video is that Cooper has dived in and made a very very big statement; by assisting the boy Cooper changed the news. He stepped in and altered his position in the Haiti situation. He is no longer simply an objective journalist, he is no a participant in the news and the one who altered the course of events that he was reporting on.

It’s not very often that journalists themselves become the news by their own choices. For Cooper to have stepped in he must have felt that the boy was in dire straights and needed assistance that he wasn’t receiving from anyone else at the scene.

Personally I completely respect and admire him for stepping in. I made the decision a while back that I refuse to be an observer. I am a doer and people who want to do things have to get involved and not just report the news. I cannot do this. So it’s very interesting to me that a journalist of Cooper’s quality, experience and standing chose to step in, instead of waiting for the news headline to create itself.

Blogging still bores me somewhat right now. I honestly don’t know if I am going to recover sufficiently to allow myself to actually maintain 2 blogs and a lifestream (nicharalambous.me). I’m over it. I’m over talking, writing, opinions, publishing and the bollocks that goes along with it.

I’m frustrated and fed up. When is the next big thing getting here? I’m bored.

And I’m really bored of hearing people’s resolutions. You resolve what, exactly, that you didn’t resolve last year? And that phrase, it also bugs me, “Last year”. You mean 5 days ago right? That’s all it’s been, there is no big revolutionary change that all of sudden will make you able to go to gym more, lose that backstreet boy you ate in 2009, quit smoking or whatever other “bad” habit you want to rid yourselves of.

2010 is a mere 4 days in and already I’m irritated by petulant people talking bullshit and singing the praises of the new year. Pah. Idiots.

I’m not going to set any new year resolutions as I did not last year. I am going to set myself some goals.

Some of these are listed below. Some are new and some (a fair amount are carried over from last year):

1. Reacquaint myself with the Greek language.

2. Skydive

3. Bungee Jump

4. Learn a 4th language

5. Go for cooking lessons – My preferance is Thai food and Wok cooking.

6. Learn how to make sushi.

7. Go overseas – Preferably to somewhere I’ve never been. I hear Thailand is beautiful.

That’s it. Seven attainable goals for 2010 (some actually carried over from 2008. Wow, that’s depressing.

I think that this year my blog post is going to be short, sweet and to the point.

I loved 2009.

It’s been a crazy, upside-down and incredibly fruitful year.

The quickshots

I bought a Townhouse.
I bought a new car (Honda Civic, 1.8 Exi)
I changed jobs to possibly one of the best places I could hope to be working at with thanks to Vincent Maher.

Some of the achievements

I was selected as one GQ’s top 30 men in media.
I was selected as one of Mail & Guardian’s top 300 South Africans to take to lunch.
Appeared on an SABC TV Show talking about the youth and politics before the 2009 elections.
Interviewed on 702 about the zahell debacle or the “zahellgate” if you will.

The madness

I was involved in a freak plane crash and managed to assist in helping some people stay alive. That was probably, in hindsight, one of the more dramatic, thought-provoking and gut-wrenching moments of my life as well as one of the proudest, for myself and the friends I was with.

Out of that day I also gained some new and true friends.

Here’s a list of some of my favourite things that emerged out of 2009

Favourite Game
Guitar Hero 5

Favourite album
aKing – Against All Odds

Definitive album of 2009
Jay-Z – Blueprint 3

Favourite Song
David Ford – State of the nation

Favourite TV Series
The Big Bang Theory
The Take (still new but looks promising)

Favourite Movie
The Hangover
District 9 (local smash)

Favourite take out
Steers

Favourite restaurant
Bombay Bicycle Club (Cape Town)
Fork (Cape Town)

Favourite Airline
Kulula.com

Favourite Day of the week
Sunday

Favourite thing about Jozi
Thunder storms that attack with vengeance and rage.

Favourite Web Application/Service
Basecamp

Favourite mobile application
Ubertwitter (I think it would seem a bit bias to say The Grid).

Favourite website
The Best Article Every Day

Favourite Blog/Lifestream
Blacknotes

Favourite webisode
Jake and Amir

Favourite online comic
Cyanide and Happiness

Favourite Tech Blog
ReadWriteWeb

Favourite Twitter follower
@Donpackett – Hilarity at every turn.

Favourite Twitter stream
Shitmydadsays

Favourite hobbies
Poker
Golf

It is a bit dramatic to say that after this year the world will never be the same. I think what I actually mean is that my world will never be the same. Which invariably is the whole world if I want to be a bit narcissistic.

I have learned that you cannot have everything right now. Time is constant and change is inevitable and sometimes you need to crouch, touch, pause and only then engage. You cannot constantly engage.

This year saw the end of manic blogging from me and the increase of twitter activity and listening. I’ve begun to listen more than I speak which I am sure is a welcome change.

Next year is going to be about consolidation, establishing a platform and working off of that platform in my personal life and in my career.

The killer concept next year is going to be mobile. There is no doubt about that in my mind. We are going to see some amazing mobile developments emerging out of Africa (I say Africa because the first world still believes that mobile = iPhone).

Enjoy the holiday because I know I will.

2010 is going to hit us with a bang (not the big bang I hope). My prediction for early 2010 is that we truly have no idea how massive the 2010 World Cup is going to be and South Africans are going to overwhelmed.

OK, so I saw Jason’s post on his lovely Castle hamper that he received and all of a sudden felt like a terrible person.

I have received one of the Castle hampers too. And they rock my socks off, truly. There is a freakin’ place to hold your beer of choice in the braai apron. That’s classy stuff right there.

But on a more serious angle, Castle Lager is doing something very smart this year. They are telling people to drink, but stay the fuck away from driving cars if they are drunk. Now they obviously didn’t use these particular words in their campaign but that’s the gist of it.

Don’t drink and drive. Don’t be a tit, don’t be a murderer and don’t be a tool. Wait, wasn’t that a Van Wilder line? “Don’t be a fool, wrap your tool” – Not pertinent to this topic but nevertheless great advise for this festive season.

Anyways, the entire point of the campaign is to promote “designated drivers”, to make sure that those guys and girls are not the losers of the evening. So you can download the pdf now to find out where the parties are happening and get smacking.

So you simply list the alphabet and type in the corresponding letter to your address bar of your browser and enter the first url that appears for that letter:

a – absa.co.za (Online banking changed my life)
b – bit.ly (Gotta keep URL’s short)
c – chrome.google.com/extensions (Looking in to Chrome extensions for Mac)
d – digg.com (No idea what that’s doing there)
e – explosm.net (The hilarious home of Cyanide and Happiness)
f – facebook.com (Uhu)
g – gmail.com (It’s the hub of my world)
h – http://gmail.com (just brought up the first “http”)
i – isohunt.com (Downloads, lots of ‘em)
j – jakeandamir.com (The best webisode in the world right now)
k – knowyourmeme.com (Know your meme crops up in a meme, shocking)
l – lamebook.com (It’s the lame-center of the Fbook)
m – maxgames.com (Typo on a gaming site I was looking for)
n – nicharalambous.com (Not surprising)
o – onthegrid.mobi (Work)
p – posterous.com (Lifestreaming)
q – qatarairways.com (if you can believe it, I got a “Q”! Was searching for flights to France.)
r – readwriteweb.com (Techhub of my world)
s – sarocks.co.za (Not surprising)
t – twitter.com (Not surprising)
u – ultimate-guitar.com (Guitar tab resource helping me learn my favourites)
v – vintage pin-ups (Search term that I have been obsessing over. Chrome allows you to search in address bar).
w – wap.thegrid.co.za (Work)
x – xe.com (Currency site)
y – youtube.com (Shock, horror)
z – zoopy.com ( – )

So there you have it… my URL ABC’s.

Top notch. Now let’s see yours.

With the help of Justin Slack I have (read: “He has”) finally managed to get nh [dot] com back up. Finally.

I say this with much trepidation. I am not sure how I feel about having my blog back up and running. I feel a sense of pressure back and looming over my head. I feel a slight sense of relief that it’s up and running and I think I feel a bit sad that I couldn’t go on without it. Some part of me wants to let it go.

But I can’t, and I wont.

Strangely though it took me almost a week to figure out that my blog had gone down. It took a further week for anyone else to notice and it took a further week for me to get off my lazy ass and ask someone for help.

Three weeks of downtime. Three weeks of no blogging concerns. Three weeks where I just didn’t care. Although I must admit that I think it is more than three weeks since I started the end of my extreme blogging days.

Twitter has killed me blog. There I said it. I’m not sure if I believe it but I said it out loud for everyone to read.

As a writer deep down inside it pains me to think that a service offering me 140 characters has usurped my focus from a platform that allows me almost endless freedom to write whatever comes to mind in as many words, sentences, paragraphs and pages as possible. Maybe this is a further sign of our times? Maybe the 30 second generation has become the 140 character generation and is soon to become the “Icanliketousesmallwordsandnospaces” generation?

Am I the only one who is potential a bit concerned by this? Again I give you: Maybe…

Nevertheless I love using Twitter and wont stop, I love writing and wont stop blogging and still am not fond of the book in my face.