We only saw one lake in reality… not counting the beauties I spotted from the plane. Lake Como is an hour’s train journey North of Milan, where me and Bill spent a few days earlier this month taking it easy wandering around and pointing at nothing in particular, jumping off the train at Como the first impression is of a gorgeous built-apon, fairly ancient gem of an Italian hillside town. Yet the town is sprawling– from what we saw it does extend a great deal- wraps its cobbled streets and meandering paths around a lake, zig-zagedly up a hillside and across the other side (I’m talking of Brunate and the other villages that share Lake Como). Its colours are Gold and Amber and on a warm Autumn day it was like an Italian Tourist Board dream. Stepping off the train from Milan at 12 noon the bells of all the nearby churche bells began to rang, a grand Duomo poked out from behind a large pillared hall, around another corner an ancient and decrepit church tower, there’s a Funicular railway up into the hills and a ferry service over to the outlying parts of town- Como is a dream. Read On »
Surreal: hearing through the wall your neighbour singing billy joel’s ‘where’s the orchestra’…quite lovely very loud.
Where’s the orchestra?
Wasn’t this supposed to be a musical?
Here I am in the balcony
How the hell could I have missed the overture?
I like the scenery
Even though I have absolutely no
Idea at all
What is being said
Despite the dialogue
There’s the leading man
The movie star who never faced an audience…
– Billy Joel
If you have a brand-spanking new iPhone in the UK (purchased from O2 or Apple) it will run on Firmware version: 1.1.2. You can’t unlock this right now, although a ‘jailbreaking’ application exists for 3rd Party Apps. But that’s not a problem; there is a way you can downgrade your phone to an older firmware- version 1.1.1, and then you can unlock it.
First follow this guide: Downgrade 1.1.2 firmware. To remove 1.1.2 from your iPhone- the downgrade takes you to 1.1.1 Firmware which is super hackable, I’ve written a post about it: here.
If you’re in need of some help, gimmie a buzz (leave a comment). If you live in Edinburgh, for a fee, I’ll do it for you ;-)
Personally, I’d leave it. The unlocking and downgrading of 1.1.2 is days away from being perfected and safe… today, as it stands, the whole thing is a bit hit-or-miss… for me that’s part of the thrill, its a wee bit like old school hacking.
Update: This is the most popular post on the site, in reality the most useful thing I can say is follow this link. Its not an easy process- but there ya go. ModMyiFone.com is the best resource for all things iPhone.
