Saving Money with iPhone

Posted by stephen on Friday, 23rd November, 2007 @ 00:19

So I gave in the week before ithe iPhone launch to the allure of the iPod touch in the Regent Street Apple Store and convinced myself that an iPhone I must have. I dutifully queued outside the O2 store from around 17.15 (I'd been there earlier but as there was no sign of a queue I decided a nice coffee in the warm Bar Citrus was necessary), and despite being 7th in the queue, I was the second person to leave the store with it, due to having no desire to play with it first or ask any questions.

Fast forward to nearly two weeks later and my original vodafone number has finally been transferred so it's properly my phone now (so I'm going to stop handing it around to everyone who wants to play with it as soon as they see it). So far, so good. 3G would make it amazing, and there's a couple of features a normal phone has that would be really useful, but I don't miss terribly. Such as knowing how many characters you're using in a text message.

Anyway, completely unrelated to the purchase of an iPhone, the issue came up of me feeling a bit poor this month, so I decided I need to get on top of things again. I managed to keep a spending diary as a spreadsheet for about 6 weeks a little while ago, which was helpful in tracking what I was getting up to. But I got out of the habit of keeping it up to date. I tend to forget exactly what I'm spending and where if I'm out and about during the day.

So I decided, why not make the spending diary mobile? So after about 25 mins of Django pokage and 25 mins of HTML tweakage, I have this...