iPhone 2.0, Yay!
I have been waiting for this day ever since I signed the NDA for the beta program. Yay for the final 2.0 software! Now I get to see if the activation process works. Wish me luck. Update: No brick, it activated like a champ.
General Rambling
I Have A Cunning Plan
Now that we can buy our own top level domains, let’s all band together and get .sucks or something. This is going to be freaking chaos.
Never Had a Text Message Wrong Number Before
“u r makin me miserable” appears on my iPhone, from some unknown cell phone number. “I’m sorry about that. Who is this?” I probably make a lot of people miserable, so I figured I’d be polite. “u deleted my #?” “Perhaps it didn’t get copied when I changed phones.” Yes, I text back in full sentences. That’s my thing. “ur killin me” “I’m sorry you feel that way. Are you sure I’m the right person?” “how can u say that 2 me” …five minutes passes… “omg im sorry feel like an idiot i dont no u got the # wrong” “I’m just relieved it isn’t me making you unhappy. Hope everything works out.” Makes me wonder, though, what the English …
Windows XP, We'll Miss You
Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP Professional and Home yesterday. For as much as people complained about XP in the beginning it evolved into an OS that was solid and consistent. Sure, Vista has succeeded XP in just about every area, but Vista is a design and usability nightmare. The Network control panels are a great example of the half-assedness of Vista. Especially anything having to do with IPv6. Or, seen another way, I find it a lot more difficult to talk my mother through things on her computer now that she’s running Vista. Even the six different ways to shut a Vista machine down are confusing, and how hard is that to do right? Goodbye, old friend. Our seven years …
Perils of Large Monitors
You’d think someone would have come up with a solution to this by now: Perhaps the solution is, instead of splitting the primary monitor, split the SECONDARY monitor and put the image there. Having not messed with big displays like this I have no idea, but it seems like there isn’t a lot of thought going into the screen many thousands of people are looking at. I saw that at Summerfest in Milwaukee yesterday. I was over there to see Michael Franti & Spearhead, as well as Jack’s Mannequin. As a lighting designer I tend to watch the lights during shows, and the addition of a hazer to the stages, and a bunch more moving lights, makes for a good …
Big Red Icky Stamp
I just bought a new red ink pad for my big rubber ICKY stamp. Hours of fun, wandering the building stamping things. Problem is, everybody knows it’s mine.
Signed, Stealed, Delivered
Am I missing something here, or is this one hell of a typo? Stealed? I found this last night in the FedEx Kinko’s “What’s your sign?” brochure, while waiting for them to make easy work of my huge icky print job. Click on the image for a larger version. Maybe the Kinkos guy in the photo is actually taking the banner away from the customer. If it is just a typo maybe the fix could also remove the lame cliches.
1001th Post
On August 8th, 2005 I started this blog. It is almost three years later and this is my 1001th post. Of those 1001 posts, 364 of them were auto-posted from my del.icio.us bookmarks. There have been 994 comments so far (thank you!) though some of those are my own replies, too. There have been 127,622 spam comments (no thank you), mostly all of them caught by Akismet (thank you). I have uploaded 95 things to the blog, whether they’re photos or something else. This blog is #1 in Google searches for “esxcfg vswitch,” and #2 in searches for “when you do things right people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” I occasionally search for things in Google and …
Whose Fault Is It?
Whose fault is it? It doesn’t matter. Get the problem fixed. You can figure out who is at fault when you’re discussing how to prevent the problem in the future.
Dear WWDC Keynote
Dear WWDC keynote people, Just shut up and tell me about the new iPhone hardware. I don’t care if the AP has an app to show me news. Boooorrring — I have that already. It’s called Mobile Safari. And MLB.com, why don’t you make your main web site less of a pile of crap, instead of making an app for the iPhone? And why isn’t it free? You are still losing to totallyscored.com, as far as I can tell. Also, anyone want to start a pool on when the first marriage ends because of Loopt? …Bob