This week I moved back up north. Here are some photos of us settling in and wandering around the Northern Quarter for a bit. More to come ;)

I'm moving house. Whilst packing it became painfully clear that I still have a load of books that I don't want, haven't read, and don't intend to read. For that reason I'm selling them, but not before you fine folks have chance to get first dibs.

Books are all used, some more than others, and may have writing in them. I'll be honest, though; I didn't take my studies too seriously, so the books on language and grammar are likely to be only very lightly annotated.

I cannot promise that the Blair Years won't bore its next owner to tears, and Danny Wallace is sickeningly perky in Follow Me.

Here's a list of books. If you want them, let me know. Pay what you think it's worth (plus postage of your choice).

1. The Times, Top 100 Graduate Employers 2006-2007. Probably completely useless now, right?
2. Coffman Crocker, French Grammar Fourth Edition (Schaum's Outlines).
3. Danny Wallace, Join Me.
4. Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years. My bookmark made it as far as page 47 before I got completely bored and stopped.
5. Michael Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody.
6. Pountain and De Carlos, Practising Spanish Grammar: A Workbook. Hardly touched and can't actually tell whether I've opened this book before. Clearly, my Spanish grammar is appalling.
7. Muñoz and Thacker, A Spanish Learning Grammar. I wrote my name on the inside cover. That's all.
8. Butt and Benjamin, A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish Fourth Edition. As above.
9. Hawkins and Towell, French Grammar and Usage Fourth Edition. This one has been opened.
10. Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching Third Edition. This is, in fact, a very good book. If you're looking to do a TEFL / EFL course, this is a good one.
11. Griffiths, Before You Go: The ultimate guide to planning your gapyear. I didn't even want to go on a gap year. Lord knows why I got this.
12. DeLuca, Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions. I have never asked, or been asked, any of the questions in this book.
13. Shavick, Psychometric Tests for Graduates. I failed the mathematics psychometric tests twice at PwC. Not sure how good this book is.

Will add more to the list as I continue to clear out! Enjoy.

I'm pretty certain that my slight illness has been caused by seeing this advert too many times. Who is this even aimed at?

There are loads of posts on support forums and kicking around the web about not being able to log into FMF as it won't support the Apple ID that people have. I had the same issue, and here is my workaround.

On my iPhone 4 I have two accounts set up. One for the iTunes store (someemail@personaldomain.com) and one for iCloud email/contacts etc (someemail@me.com). I was trying to use FMF with the someemail@me.com address but kept getting an error telling me that my ID was incorrect and that it must be verified.

Solution: Go to appleid.apple.com and click the link to manage your ID. Log in with the ID you use for the iTunes store and, when you are in there, add in the other email you wanted to use with FMF. You will be sent a verification email to that address.

Once you have done that log into FMF using your iTunes store account. Hopefully it should work and it will have any invitations/requests filtered through as well as your email is now linked.

In my case that meant that I had someemail@me.com as my primary email and someemail@personaldomain.com as the secondary email on the iTunes store account. The invitations that had been sent to my iCloud (someemail@me.com) account showed up just fine.

[link to the support thread I looked at]

iCloud is out there and people are using it. If you're anything like me (ie. you like a good moan) there are a few niggling issues with the overall service. Let's see if you agree.

The most annoying thing for me is that I had a MobileMe (an @me.com email) account prior to iCloud coming along. As a result I cannot use an @me.com email address as my iTunes account.

The result is that I must now run two iCloud accounts on all of my devices. One for iTunes (music, movies, apps) and another for email, contacts, calendars etc. At first glance that's lousy implementation but not the end of the world.

It gets complicated when you look at apps like FaceTime, iMessage and Find my Friends. At the moment they too will only allow me to use my iTunes iCloud ID. Why does this annoy me? It annoys me because my second email account is the one backing up my data to the cloud, meaning that I now have SMS and iMessage backups to two different cloud locations. Complicated.

It's also annoying because I can have my @me.com (which is one of my iCloud logins) email address added as a secondary email on my iTunes iCloud account (are you lost yet?!) and receive notifications to that! How are they working this stuff out?

Before putting this live Apple really ought to have found a way to merge these accounts. Having multiple accounts, with mixed up primary and secondary emails, is just confusing. I am not going to understand where all of my data is and which accounts I'm using with which applications unless I sit down and draw out a diagram.

Anyone else sharing the same frustrations?