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Another interesting read on the BBC News website; according to Professor Adrian North, of Heriot Watt University, my musical tastes are linked to my personality.

Apparently the type of music that you listen to shows what type of personality you have, for example;

• Listening to Classical music means you have high self-esteem, creative, introvert and at ease.
• Listening to Heavy Metal  means you have low self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not outgoing, gentle, at ease.
• Listening to Chart Pop means you have high self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease.
• Etc…

Which is a bit of a buggar for me, and a friend I was chatting to about musical tastes last night, as we both have somewhat ‘eclectic’ tastes in music.  My tastes range from Classical (when mellowing out), to 80′s pop (ahh my yooof!) to Heavy Metal (when in a good or ‘fast’ mood). 

It looks like I am a very confused little individual, which is probably not such a surprise to people who know me!

Quite why my friends are still surprised when I turn up with a new gadget is a bit of a mystery to me, you’d think after all these years (and all these gadgets) they would have learnt by now.

After thinking it a bit of a gimmick, plus already being in a contract with Vodafone, I have finally gotten myself an iPhone after O2 rather kindly offered to buy me out of my current contract. So I am now the proud owner of a 16Gb Apple iPhone 3G!

…and I have to say I am MORE than delighted and impressed with it.  Up till now I have been using a combination of other products to be the uber-chic man about town;  My Nokia 6500 Classic mobile phone (with Vodafone data tariff), Nokia n810 Internet Tablet for accessing the Internet, and an Apple iPod Nano 4Gb for music.  The iPhone now replaces all of these.

Now there is a bit of a wrench in dropping the Nokia n810 as this runs my Operating System of choice (Linux) and allows me to run a large number of Open Source products which I also use on my desktop PC at home (see my previous post here for more info).  However all these apps never really ‘fitted’ together in a seamless way, which the iPhone does.  Also, the need not to waste batteries (on both the mobile and n810) when bluetoothing between the two devices so I can 3G connect to the Internet is a bit of a bonus.

It’s not entirely a perfect device, but the advantages far outweigh the imperfections;

• Where’s cut-n-paste?  I would love to be able to snip bits of information out of websites or emails and post them in the notebook.
• When you minimise an app, it closes it (apart from the music)!  So when you are in the facebook app, and then decide to check your email, it disconnects you from any chats you were in
• iTunes!  *sigh* I have to run Windows to update my iPhone with music or install apps.

That all said, I am online now stalking friends on facebook whilst listening to some very early Genesis tracks – bliss!