So I bought an iPhone and am using it right now to blog while laying I’m bed. Sad I know, but easy and relaxing.
Actually using a Word Press app
to connect to my blog. It’s somewhat of a no frils app, but seems to do what it needs to do, and I’ve become quite good at typing on the iPhone.
I don’t have a lot to complains about the iPhone, except the über shite battery life and the lack of decent Bluetooth support. Besides that, I love every thing else about it.
I am sure when they add copy an paste in the new update it will be even cooler. Not forgetting the turn by turn GPS, which will allow for such apps like TomTom, as right now the GPS is not much help except to tell you where you are right now on the google map or emailing your current location to a friend or twitted. Allbeit useful some times. It would work great in an emergency.
I’ll write more later about the iPhone and bedroom blogging. For now I bid you good night.
So it’s been a couple of weeks without any updates, thanks to my previous hosting company, who shall remain nameless “cough Dreamhost cough”.
It took them two weeks to restore my files from some remote servers, so I was told. But for fucks sake, you’re suppose to be a professional hosting company and not a tinpot 50p host. HOW ABOUT BACKUPS? … Arseholes.
Anyway, I’ve moved my files and all my domains to a new fast and much cheaper company, who offers unlimited bandwidth and disk space. They’re called Hostmonster and so far, I am pretty pleases. Dreamhost was slowing down every day, it would take so long to get to my pages. And I know if it was me browsing someones site at that speed, I’d move on.
To cut a long story short, I’m still updating all the files and as you can see, I’ve not moved my skins over to the new WP update. This weekend, I’m hoping to do everything and bring it back to normality. Also notice photoblog isn’t working.
Check back in a few days (all 4 of you that look at my blogs 
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On the last night of my month stay in Australia, I took some timelapse shots, which I put together recently as a video and uploaded to Vimeo. I think they were taken from midnight to 6 am.
Sydney timelapse from Boback Shahsafdari on Vimeo.
Funny photo a friend of mine took in Holland.
I love foreign countries, they seem to take English to another level. Especially the further east you go, the translations become funnier.
There was this billboard I saw in Kuwait, I can’t remember exactly what it said, but the person who translated the Arabic into English either had a sense of humor, or got his translation degree from the back of the Cornflakes box. I’ll post a picture of it when I find it.
So I’ve been slaving away at Ogilvy for over a year and a half now, even though for the last year, I’ve been working solely for Kodak. You can see my handy work if 1) you visit Kodaks online shop or 2) receive emails from Kodak twice a month. Also I built a site they did for some silly ass infomercial, which was totally cheese factor #10.
But I feel it’s time for a change…
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This is the setup we’ve got right now at home. Sony Bravia 40″, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Mac Mini and games + some DVDs and a couple of BluRays.
You can view the bigger picture at flickr, for those of you who want to know the titles of the disks and games.
Table is from IKEA. It’s quite nice, as it has a compartment at the back to hide all the cables, of which there are a lot of.
So last week, or rather the week before last we went out to do the Sunday shopping at the local huge monster size Tesco (like WalMart for you Americans) and I saw my opportunity to buy a HDTV. It was a spontaneous decision when I saw the price of a LG 32 inch HDTV
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I saw this on the BBC page, and it made me laugh. I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help it. The quote is what makes it funny.
“German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue. “My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day,” said Annika.”
Oh well, that’s over. now back to work, though I have a lot of things to say this week, I think I’ll leave it for when I get home.
This weekend, I are mostly been going through DV tapes I shot from 2000 all the way to 2003. I’ve not used my DV cam much in the past few years. It’s been mostly in my fathers hands for his trips back to Iran. I found a few interesting bits on all the tapes I scanned, and uploaded a couple of very short scenes to Youtube. I’ll have to go through them more carefully when time permits.
This is something I shot back in 2000, when I used to work for a company called Rare Medium. The company is now dead and buried, mostly thanks to the Über crap management of the UK division, firstly ran by the super incompitant team of Dale Hartleben and his wife, Karen Booth. Then topped off by some twat who took over the role, and then got fired for sexual harassment. Fitting end for a shit company who wasted 3 years of my life with dreams and promises they never delivered. I’m not bitter… Much.
Anyway, this video is part of a 60 min shoot I did for a boat trip they organized down the Thames river.
So, it has been three weeks since Nikki, Zoé and I moved in together, here in old rainy London. Even though it hasn’t actually rained properly since we’ve been back.
Since we moved into an area of London that I am not familiar with very much, we’ve all had to adjust to the new surroundings and whatnot.
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