I'm currently several thousand metres up over Australia and due to a very poorly planned schedule I'm jetlagged already and not 100% sure what day it is, so I hope you'll excuse me if this blog is a little discursive.
I'm also blogging offline from my iPhone and will probably post when I land in KL without checking so please excuse any errors or inelegance.
I want to cover several things so I'll list them to remind myself:
•the Social Network - just watching this during dinner on the plane. I saw it in the Cinema (by myself as everybody I asked apparently had gone to it together, bastards); and damn, it's a good film. Apart from anything else it makes me want to go to Harvard, and/or be Mark Zuckerberg (but without the misanthropic autism). A highlight - one of the twins explains why he doesn't need to get the Sopranos to beat the crap out of Mark Z: "I'm 6"5, 220lbs and there's two of me".
•iPad - I like how predictive text automatically parses iPhone and iPad correctly and I'm sure Apple's TM lawyers do too. I had a long play on an iPad at my last ridiculously long wait at Sydney's international terminal.
At about AU$900 for the top spec 64gb wifi/3g version (roughly £600 at current rates) I don't need one but yes, ok: I want one.
•Malaysia Airlines - highly recommended. Good food (just had probably the best airline meal ever; a properly spicy chicken biryani); decent movie selection and friendly, attentive service. Like Singapore Air but less totalitarian.
•WIFI availability - why is free wifi so rare in Australia/NZ? In Europe it's rare to find a hotel/airport in a major city WITHOUT free, accessible WIFI; when will the antipodes catch up?
On that note, Harvard's network just crashed on TSN so let's see if this blog has saved itself offline...
