Despite having successfully convinced myself I didn't need an iPad and that I merely wanted one it's now getting to the point where it's only a matter of time until I cave in and buy one. We're talking days.

A couple of things have swayed me.

Firstly, that the kids have had their hands on one and they love it. The iPad in question was loaded with kids jigsaws, bedtime books and colouring apps. Whereas at first I adopted the stance that "It did me no harm not having these gadgets as a kid" I accept that it's all very different now. Why should I hold them back when it's inevitable that their future is filled with technology? They still have access to normal jigsaws and colouring books and I can't see the iPad meaning I no longer read them a bedtime story every night.

Secondly, an up-coming project involves developing an "iPhone app", so having some hardware to compliment the SDK's emulator won't go amiss. Heck, it's now a business requirement that I have one! All I need to do now is convince the company secretary of my need for one.

One question while I have your attention - can I reliably test an iPhone app on an iPod Touch to get a real world feel for it outside the emulator, without splashing out on the phone itself?

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Volker posted his preferred methods of being contacted on Twitter today, which rang true with myself and reminded me of a couple of incidents of late:

• A friend of Karen's wanted to contact our photographer friend. From what we can work out they did so via his Facebook profile, which I'm guessing turned up via a Google for his name. But he no longer checks Facebook and they've now concluded "He didn't get back in touch, so we've gone elsewhere". They should have asked for his phone number.
• A friend of mine used an @jakehowlett "mention" on Twitter to tell me something of relative importance. Luckily I happened to see it. It should have been an email, SMS or phone call though really.

From my own point of view, unless I've verbally told somebody something I can only assume they might (or might not) have gotten the message.