Mark Cohen is a CIO at Australia's largest online retailer and is a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up, code-cutting geek. He lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and boys and can sometimes be spotted puffing and panting as he runs at Maroubra Beach
via TUAW – there’s a tutorial on cocoa dev central that walks you through building a Cocoa app. If you have a half an hour to spare and you’re a non-mac-developer like me, and you own a mac, have a look at
Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Cocoa. It’s a simple tutorial assuming no previous experience.
One thing fairly significant is missing from the Netcomm manual for the NB9W ADSL Modem / Router. It doesn’t tell you to check the “use outbound proxy” checkbox when configuring a VOIP service. I checked the manual for my isp that they provide on their site, their generic manual, and whatever else I could. So note to self: If you’re ever configuring a netcomm modem to use voip, check the outbound proxy setting and provide the same server as inbound, as below. This will make your life a whole lot easier 
I did well. I organised a great night out. We celebrated ten years married on Tuesday and I decided to make it a special evening out. I booked a stretch limo to pick us up and take us to dinner. The limo was awesome. It arrived and I just called my wife and told her the taxi had arrived. She was blown away. I had a bottle of French champagne ready for the drive, and so we drank champagne and cruised into the city in style.
We had dinner at Aria, and we were lucky enough to have a table in the window, looking out over the Opera House and the Bridge. Wow. We had a superb three course meal with a bottle of Main Ridge Half Acre (my mate Brent’s recommendation, beautiful wine) and then went for a walk round circular quay. As we got to the MCA a boat I’d booked arrived and picked us up and took us out onto the harbour, under the bridge and round to King St Wharf. We got off there and went to Bungalow 8 for a drink and then headed home.
Ten years with the same person is an amazing feat for both of us. We’ve known each other for half our lives, we have two great kids, we’ve re-established and reinvented ourselves. I’m looking forward to the next ten years.
Mashable reports that AT&T and Apple will launch
3G iPhone Next Year. This is awesome news, with the iPhone allegedly coming to Australian retailers in July. A 3G iPhone would go realy nicely with a 3 Mobile Broadband plan, and for $20 a month on top of a small cap you could have 500 MB a month of Mobile Broadband in your pocket. If you’re not sentimental about warrantees you could also fully unlock OSX on the iPhone and install whatever you would find handy to have in your pocket. Like Skype with SkypeIn. Finally, device convergence is happening. Bring it on 