And all good delicious things...

...must come to an end.

After almost 8 years, I've decided to end Good Delicious in its current form. Many factors contribute to this decision, key to them is that I'll continue blogging in one form or another on tumblr, and of course twitter.

This blog started out of boredom 8 years ago, and snow-balled from there into something that lasted way longer than I expected it to! It's been through its highs and lows, as well as my own highs and lows and journeys.

I've loved every second of blogging, and feel sad that for the last 2 years I've neglected the blog mostly, being too lazy to blog, preferring to tweet instead. Twitter is like the fast-food of blogging: it's quick, easy, dirty, you get satisfaction almost instantly, and is available everywhere you look.

Blogger is more like the fine-dining of blogging: you have to dress up, sit down for a while, and speak politely.

Which is why tumblr is my new destination. It's the bastard son of twitter and blogger, making for an in-between that should mean more posts from me, and more audience for the blog in general. I've been experimenting with some tumblr posts and have enjoyed it a lot. It's infinitely easier than Blogger, is seamlessly integrated with Twitter, and already some posts of mine have found an audience! Have a look yourself here.

So, here's what's going to happen, from tomorrow, www.alialsawaf.com will take you to my tumblr blog (sobtanian.tumblr.com). You can still access this blog for historical/research/nostalgia purposes at old.alialsawaf.com

Finally, I want to thank each and every person who sat through this with me over the years. Thanks for reading, thanks for posting your comments, and thanks for being the inspiration behind this blog. And I hope you'll all keep on reading my tumblr posts. The good news is all you gotta do is just visit alialsawaf.com. No change in bookmarks or anything :p

Over and out for the last time on Blogger. See you on the other side.

To move or not to move?

The blog over to Tumblr, a better service....

Have a look over here.

Sonic Coffee!

"new" iPad preordered!

So the new iPad was announced today, and as rumoured it runs a mind-boggling 2048x1536 resolution!!! And still manages to keep a 10 hour battery life, presumably it stays cold as well. How? Only the gods know.

The processing unit has been upgraded too. The CPU is still dual core, but the GPU is quad core now, presumably to manage drive such a beast of a resolution. Some games on show are said to look at least like 360 graphics.

The camera has been upgraded a bit but that's it. No Siri yet.

I would have loved to go and queue up at the store again like last year, but my back pain stops that. So, I've been camped on the UK Apple online store page since around 7pm this evening. Initially it came online but was VERY slow and it crashed midway during my preorder.

It was taken offline and came online around 23:45. Needless to say, by 23:48 I'd placed an order. White (I prefer it), wifi-only model, but 64gb. I've really run out of space on the 32gb current one.

Hopefully the beast will be delivered on Friday the 16th. Nice thing is that it's compatible with my current smart cover and dock.

More later ;)

The cutest thing you'll EVER see. Ever.

The Psygnosis Logo

Just because.

Apple media invites are out!

Yes, that's right. After weeks of rumours and speculation, Apple have finally sent out official invites to those lucky bastards in the media! The event takes place on the 7th of March, 18:00 GMT.

And my my is it one hell of a tease:

As you can see, it's very likely that the event will be about a new iPad. Some are calling it the iPad 3, others the iPad 2S. In either case, the main rumour is that it will have an unbelievable 2048x1536 pixel display. Stop for a moment and think about that: my 30" DELL is 2560x1600. The iPad is 9.7"!
It will be amazing to see if that's true, especially with regards to how the hell Apple are gonna manage battery life and heat production on such a high resolution.

The invitation also mentions "And touch". I wonder what that could be about? Touching the device is nothing new, but have they altered the capacitive screen in some way?

Who's to know and only an agonising week's wait will tell us!

OUCH

I've just spent the last 5 days in hospital, with a very, very, VERY painful back. All because of a slipped disc.

Just back home now and feeling a little dopey. More later.