To turn on the free built in emoji on iOS 5 simply do the following

· Settings

· General

· Keyboard

· Click international

· Select emoji

Job done, now when composing messages, tweets or emails simply click on the globe and you will be presented with nice emoji icons

Good buy all the apps that used to charge 69p + for apps.

Well, this is something that I didn’t expect to happen. While swearing in a text message Siri told me off!

When I first started taking the tablets, I was determined that they were not going to work for me, with me still smoking at the time and taking them I couldn’t see how they could possibly work. I read up on the internet a little for reviews of them and I was shocked at the horror stories that people were putting.

· Driving through red lights just because they could

· Smashing the house up

· Turning really nasty

· Suicide

This made me a little scared of taking them, but like everything you don’t know unless you try. So I started taking them and experienced some of the standard side effects such as:

· Constant Headaches

· Memory not as good

· Feeling a little grumpy

· Aggressive driving

I hadn’t ever used my car horn once since I had my new car (well over a year) and within a couple of days of being on the tablets I was pipping at everyone for the slightest of things. I remember one woman who was at the traffic lights in front of me waiting for them to change, as soon as they changed and she wasn’t quick enough off the line (5 seconds I think I was waiting) I was straight on the horn pipping at her. Strange.

Another example was when I went to the supermarket, I was looking at the deodorants and the men’s isle while my girlfriend went around shopping. By the time I had finished I tried finding her and looked down every isle, she was at the very end of the supermarket. Now what I remember was looking at the deodorants for around 5 minutes tops, when in fact I had been stood there looking for a good 25 minutes. This came as a shock to me as it didn’t seem that long. Also while on the same trip I came to the freezer isle. I was looking for some Yorkshire puddings, when I eventually found them I opened the freezer and what seemed like 30 seconds turned out was about 2 minutes. A lady started talking to me and asked if I was alright. I replied “Yes thanks why?” her response was “You have been stood with the freezer door open just staring for about 2 minutes, can I just get past and get something” Yet another time that really doesn’t make sense.

Apart from those I haven’t really noticed anything else, people are commenting at work saying that I don’t look my normal self, but I don’t notice. They keep asking me if I’m ok and I simply reply “Yeah ta” because I don’t feel any difference in myself.

It’s a really strange feeling when you are getting close to your stop date, I can remember smoking and I would have a couple of drags on the cig and would throw it away without even realising. Eventually I would be having only 2 a day, down from 23ish+. The taste of the cigarette changes the more you get into the tablets, it’s a difficult explanation but I’ll always remember what one person told me. The only way he could describe it was. “It’s like going to a pub, ordering a pint of beer, you start drinking it and it tastes like water” basically saying that it doesn’t taste how you used to remember it. Mind games.

So I have been on the tablets for around 3 weeks and just started my 5 th week. I am seriously considering coming off the tablets after the 6 th week. (it should be a 12 week course) the reason being I simply do not have the time to go to the Dr’s every week and keep taking time off work. It may be different at your Dr’s but at mine I have to do the following:

· Nurse check-up (check carbon monoxide levels)

· Nurse gives me form for Dr

· I have to book at Dr week after for repeat prescription

· I collect prescription

· I have to make another appointment at the nurse for the following week to check carbon monoxide levels

You get the idea, I have to do the following for 12 weeks. To make it worse, the nurse is at a different clinic to my Dr and the nurse only works 9:30am – 4pm Monday – Friday

However I work 8am – 4pm Monday – Friday, so as you can imagine this would not go down too well with my boss and company.

I still get some craving’s to have a cig but they are not as bad so far I have managed to go without one for 10 days.

Habits I didn’t think I could break

· First cig of the morning

· Cig after food

· When having a bad day

· In the car on the way to work

· On long journeys

So far so good! I will keep this post updated with more developments and updates.

UPDATE 12th December 2011

I came off the tablets 1 week 4 days ago. This was out of personal choice due to me having to attend a Christmas party and I knew alcohol would be involved. I came of the tablets a couple of days before the party and I did actually smoke that night. I knew all along I would do. Not the attitude to have but still you win some and you lose some. However I am still off the tablets and haven’t had a cig since.

I may have to go back on the tablets shortly though as I can feel the cravings coming back more than ever. At this point I can’t see that there will ever be a permanent solution for all smokers.

More updates to follow with progress.

One thing you will notice is this:

Who’s gonna iron my shirts?
Who’s gonna kiss where it hurts?
And who needs a man when he flirts the way I do?

Who if not you
Who if not you

Who if not you
Tell me, Who if not you

Who’s gonna wake me on time?
Who’ll smile and say I look fine?
And who’s gonna stay on my mind the whole day through?

Who’s gonna see that I’m fed?
Who’s gonna want me in bed?
But who’ll watch T.V. instead because I do?

Who if not you
Tell me, Who if not you

My second Galaxy S 2 came with firmware 2.3.3 installed. This was also fine as I thought it would update. I tried launching the update application and logged in to be told… “no update available”

I’ve tried and tried, but still the same error message. I’m not sure what else to try now, when I get back home I will have a look and see what I can find.

Haha – no really I now have my blog looking exactly how I want it, I have a new HTML5 theme, all of my old content, a view of where I am going to go with it and most of all its fun to be blogging again!

I have lots of stuff that I could enter but, for the time being, I am just going to get to grips with what categories I want and organise all of the old data.

I won’t be able to do it this weekend, as I am working away in Bristol for all of it! All work no play.

Some of the blog posts that are coming:

· Setup SMB sharing on Lion to work with Apple TV XBMC

· Starting the SMB server when the computer restarts

· My new found love of Sharepoint

· Decisions Decisions (Do I want to but the new 27” iMac)

· It’s Chriiiiistmaaaas!!!!

· Server Clear Up (All my websites are now gone)

· I’ve gone ANDROID!!!

New things still to come:

· Gallery

· Android Section

· New Categories

· New top link bar tabs

· A Cleaner – less cluttered feel

I also no that I have not being interacting with comments that have been posted, this is due to the fact, well basically, I haven’t been checking them! So I have been taking ages to approve them.

This will change and I shall be checking them everyday.

Even though I had the WordPress application installed on my phone, I just didn’t check it. Now it is on my front page of my phone and will be checking it daily. Sort of.

It’s time for a change and that goes for everything.

All the things on this blog will be archived.