Or a bigger network pipe. Or something.

The long awaited iOS5 was released today, and it seems that the demand has been a wee bit too much. The download bit seems to be working well enough, but as part of the process of updating involves iTunes talking to Apple’s servers to make sure that the backup of the iDevice in question is valid, a lot of people are having problems. Unfortunately, a lot of the errors being seen are a bit vague – to the effect that “an internal error occurred”, which isn’t very informative.

My iPad manged the upgrade after several attempts and my iPhone is now happily updating itself. I’m not sure why I’m making the effort with the phone, as it’s about to be replaced, but I’m doing it anyway…

I think the problem here is that there are so many iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and even Apple TVs out there that the current way updates are distributed is having trouble keeping up with the demand. What Apple needs is either more patient customers or some even better load-balancing infrastructure. Given the way people behave, I think the latter option looks more likely to work.

Up by the smallest amount the scale can display today, which is not too bad.

Had to go to Leeds today, so once again no walking. The rain was also a bit of a disincentive, mutter.

Today’s picture is of the development on the former Newcastle Brewery site

Science City

This one shows that the little Sony camera can do quite well under the right conditions…

Apparently the editor of the Daily Fail[1] has decided to move its corrections column up to the second page, where at least some people will see it. Personally, I think newspapers, and even miserable excuses for newspapers such as the Daily Fail, should be obliged by law to give the same prominence to corrections that they gave to the story they are correcting. And since many of the Daily Fail’s most egregiously in need of correction stories[2] appear in large type on the front page, that would probably be a more appropriate location for its corrections.

Or maybe there should just be a statement on the front of every issue that goes something like:

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Daily Mail to launch page 2 correction column | Full Fact.

[1] Which is the politest name I have for the miserable excuse for a newspaper in question
[2] Or “lies” as they’re more commonly known