The past month has seen me busier than ever before.  I expanded my business to include my favourite hobby, home theatre and movies in general, and wouldn’t you know it, my web business blows up.  I’ve released 2 sites already this month and will have another 3 before the July page flips to August.  While it puts stress on the home life, the nature of the beast is such that you must strike while the iron is hot.

Since my biggest project of 2009 so far has now gone gold with only minor updates remaining (niagaragreenbelt.com) I feel it’s time to update the site.

To date I’ve partnered with great creatives like Brock, Rene, Aron and Gabriel and the work seems to be flowing nicely.  The even better news is that I’m very busy at Sears Canada and the work there seems to be rounding me out.  Not only can I code your front end website but I have the ability to do the dirty, SQL back end too.

Let me just close by saying that 3G has finally arrived in Belleville, but it hasn’t reached into Prince Edward County.  Typing on an iPod Touch is not as easy as it is on the Blackberry, and that isn’t easy in the first place (with chubby digits).  I’m now trying to Tweet as much as makes sense but I’m still not paying enough attention to my LinkedIn account.  I still love my PS3 but even more so now that I’m streaming iTunes from my Macbook.  And lastly, why hasn’t Adam Sandler been making kids’ movies all along?

Oh yeah, and I’m an uncle again!  Congrats to my sister Maija, brudder Jonny, niece Lexi and only nephew Jonah Watson Goward (7lbs 5oz).

Before you start flaming me with why other phones are better and that iTunes sucks you have to stop for a minute and examine the facts:

• I don’t currently have a cell phone
• I have a ton of iTunes-managed music, podcasts and video
• I need push email for my business
• I need mobile Internet access for my business

This device has all of those features in one package.  The fact that it carries a maximum price of $299 USD (for the 16GB model) makes it even sweeter.

The only question of affordability now will be the service plan.  We all know that Rogers is the only carrier currently capable of 3G, and that the 3G coverage isn’t even that great yet in Canada, but Mr. Jobs has pushed his ideal of availability to other carriers in other countries before.  Here’s hoping that he does so in Canada as well.

While Apple didn’t fully comply with my list of must haves (32GB would have allowed me to fit all of my tunes) they did run down a pretty good list of functions and added value features.  You can read about Steve’s keynote speech at WWDC08 over at Engadget.com.

Hopefully Rogers will extend their Vision network to include the Belleville area – Prince Edward County specifically.  I won’t hold my breath.