My efforts of leaving work early, travelling to the south cost on a cold & wet Tuesday night and getting back to Bath very late were all in vain. Bath City lost to a very good Eastleigh side.

Amazingly, despite the loss, City are still 4 points off the play offs with 2 games in hand.

The promotion race is still on, but we’ll have to do a lot better than yesterday…

As much as I love my new iPhone, I am not too pleased with the latest software update – proof that it isn’t only Microsoft who can screw up.

The maps app, which I think is really great, has been changed. All distance is now in kilometres and there is no way to change it back to miles.

I think Apple are trying to force us all to go metric. Either that or the American programmers don’t think anybody else exists outside their country.

My laptop decided to die this afternoon. Typical – just as it falls outside the warranty period.

Touch wood, but I believe I have managed to resurrect it. I think it temporarily lost its memory…

With the machine refusing to boot, emergency surgery had to take place. I got out a screwdriver and took the back off, removing sticks of RAM.

After much chopping and changing of sticks and slots, I eventually got the laptop going again. Hazzah! Running Windows Vista on 512mb of RAM is NOT a nice experience – imagine Michael Ricketts as a computer and you’ll get some idea.

Luckily the RAM is now back up to a gig, but I am thinking of booking my laptop in for follow up surgery, where I will upgrade his memory to 4 gigabytes – the computer equivalent of Steven Hawking.

It should be worth noting that I was using iTunes at the time of the laptop failure. iTunes is an Apple product. Apple is Microsoft and IBM’s biggest and most bitter rival. Coincidence?

I have been playing around with my iPhone this weekend. There’s so much stuff on it – it is more like a mini PC than a mobile (or should that be mini MAC?)

The web browser is by far the best app on there, but I downloaded some pretty good ones from the App Store too. An Internet radio streaming tool, a cool program called Shazam, which identifies a piece of music being played, and a blogging tool, which I am using now.

I have been given a brand new mobile number, so am going through my old contacts list, trying to let everyone know. If you haven’t been told yet, you will receive a message in the next few days. If not, it means I either don’t know you, or that I do know you and I don’t want you knowing my new number! :o)

The iPhone can apparentely also send SMS messages and make telephone calls, although I’m don’t believe that personally.

… and about time too.

It was worth the wait. The iPhone is brilliant! The best invention since the iWheel.

So it looks like Kaká has decided to turn down Manchester City’s offer of £500,000 a week and stay in Italy. What a good day for football and his owners – AC Milan and Jesus Christ.

What a terrible day for Man City fans! Not only do they lose out on Kaká, but instead, they sign everyone’s favourite thug, Craig Bellamy.

For City supporters, it must be like losing a wad of £50 notes and finding a 2 dirty pence piece. A 2p which is so sharp, it cuts you, giving you tetanus and is so badly damaged, the vending machine at work won’t accept it.

• A much better performance and result than last season’s 3-0 defeat.
• No filming duties for me. The clubs camera is no more. Hopefully this issue will soon be resolved.
• I avoided the risk of stabbings and went straight to the club house, not exploring the neighbourhood.
• Both City and Hayes’ goalkeepers must have shared a crack pipe before kick off as they were rubbish!
• Team Bath lost. City are now level on points with the tax-funded outfit. Excellent.
• Leeds won, but I already said that (below)

Photos of the ground…

Leeds’ second goal from the wonderkid, Fabian Delph. Kaká – eat your heart out.

Pity Delph will almost certanly be a Manchester United player in a few weeks time :o(

Tomorrow I travel to Hayes in London for my first Bath City game since New Years Day. 16 days seems a very long time without football!

Unfortunately, I don’t have very good memories of last year’s trip. Upon arriving at the ground, a group of fans and me explored the local neighbourhood, which can only be described as England’s answer to Downtown Bronx. Graffiti, smashed glass and gangs everywhere. This is the kind of place people get stabbed!

When we got back to the relative safety of the ground, I witnessed a terrible display of football, which resulted in Bath City losing 3-0.

I sincerely hope tomorrow’s trip is a lot nicer. I won’t be exploring Gangland Hayes again, but instead going straight into the ground. I am on camera duties tomorrow too, so will hopefully have a decent game to film.

Sam learnt a valuable lesson at work today. If you must access your Facebook page using somebody else’s iPhone, make sure you log out properly…