Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

A few weeks ago I dropped my iPhone on the kitchen floor and cracked the glass. I was extremely disappointed and shared my feelings on Twitter.

But then Oscar Kneppers came up with a beautiful plan. I’m not going into all the details here because I want to leave that to Bright Magazine but it involved Mark Hoekstra and you can see the result here:

The Black iPhone:
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/822/paint-it-black-the-iphone

I am so proud that MY old iPhone is now THE coolest iPhone in the world!

Please also Digg the story:
http://digg.com/gadgets/The_ONLY_Black_iPhone_in_the_World

Now also on Gizmodo:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/iphone-mod-thinks-differently-316602.php

And on the unofficial Apple weblog:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/29/iphone-or-newton/

Make Magazine:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/old_school_iphone.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

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• Started my day with waking up too late. Even the girls were still sleeping at 8:15. #
• I have a dead iPhone (DOA) here that needs to be exchanged at an
  Apple store in the US. Who is going? #
• Hacking my new iPhone. My 3rd one actually. Dropped 1st one, 2nd one was DOA, this is 3rd one. #

• @biz: thanks for stopping by and bringing Olivia. Glad that you liked
  my soup… #

As you can see I installed a plug-in that fetches my Twitter Updates and posts them here once a day. This also means I will be changing the way I Twitter. If every Update I do ends up here it means I should try to make updates that are interesting even if taken out of context.

I’m not sure if that will work but I will give it a try.

This is the first batch of Twitter Updates:

• @thijsjacobs: iPhone sucks. Busy with stuff… #
• I love the iPhone but I just miss my Blackberry too much. Today I
  switched back. How about that… #
• Who has bought FD today and wants to send me a photo of the page that
  has an interview with me including Guido van Nispen photos? #
• Are Twitter and Flickr a distraction or divergence from blogging.
  Look forward to comments. http://tinyurl.com/232c77
  divergence/ #
• Unpacked my new iPhone today. Dead on arrival. I’m juts not luicky with the iPhone #
• Shopping for sidenight dinner with picnic speakers. 20 people in 2 hours and no plan…. #

Just in case you don’t know what Twitter is: Twitter is a website where people answer the question “What are you doing now”. You can have people following your updates and you can follow other people and check out what they do. It can be a convenient way to keep up to date with what your friends are doing. Some people also use it to report on events and others use it to chat. There are no real rules yet on how you should use Twitter which makes it an exciting phenomena to play with.