An Apple a day keeps sanity away

I've just become a jailbreaker and I don't feel guilty at all. No, I haven't escaped from prison. My "crime" is to have put software I like on the great toy that now follows me everywhere, my shiny black iPhone.

Doing what you want with your possessions isn't usually a problem - Microsoft, for instance, doesn't stop you using Firefox on your PC and ditching Internet Explorer, or preferring Yahoo Messenger over MSN - but Apple has such a proprietary attitude to their little treasure I half expect them to come knocking on my door at any moment.

Ironically, I traveled more than 10,000 km to buy a perfectly legal iPhone ... and with one click of a button, have rendered it liable to crash if I inadvertently press the wrong button.