Well, I received an e-mail this morning that the professional pictures from my brother’s wedding are now online at the following link:
All I can say is that I’m quite happy that I appear in surprisingly few of them.
Archive for April, 2008
So I saw this on Digg, and liked it enough that I figured I’ll embed it here. Note, I did not make the video, just liked the message, cheers.
Its no surprise that I’m a fan of technology (though in all honesty it should scare the beejeebies out of me) and especially of mobile phones of the smartphone variety, currently switching back and forth between the (somewhat aged) blackberry pearl and nokia n73 phones.
Blackberry internet service (which is the only way a consumer outside of a corporate BES environment can use a blackberry) is woefully inadequate for any power user, and severely cripples the functionality of the blackberry in the first place, lacking online calendar, contact, note, and task synchronization, and lets not forget that the “push” e-mail is rather a laugh, in that its not bi-directional, and doesn’t keep messages in sync on the device and the server.
The Nokia standard IMAP implementation is great for e-mail, its already a web standard, gmail works with it, and it supports idle for push e-mail too, but that’s about it. There’s still no easily acessible online calendar, notes, task, contacts syncing without paying a third party service for either microsoft exchange accounts or to translate the standard syncml into proprietary online formats.
Anyway, the real point of this article is that I don’t understand why Google hasn’t integrated their online apps into a groupware suite of sorts. For consumers, it would dominate the market. There would be no choice, you have a phone that will automatically sync your calendar, your contacts, tasks, and pushes your gmail down to your phone without needing to be connected or synced to a desktop.
Come on nokia and google, you can do it.
I want a nokia n-series phone with a QWERTY keyboard, 5mp camera with xenon flash, wifi, gps, and the latest software, and then I want google to implement syncml for all their apps so as to facilitate push calendar, contacts, etc.
I’m there.
So I decided this weekend that in keeping with my planned black & grey interior theme for my car, I was going to cover my door panel inserts in black perforated leather, to match the seats.
I’ve had the leather, and the new door panels (sans window crank holes) for a couple of weeks, but was stalled in figuring out how to cover the inserts.
end result, it either can’t be done, or I simply can’t do it (I lean towards the latter) and I’m out $100 for the project, and now have a completely ruined passenger side rear door panel, so I have only 3 doors in the car right now that no longer have window crank holes.
Oh well… this whole failure thing seems to be a new trend for me.
Its hard to admit that I’m a failure, completely incapable of supporting myself, but I think that maybe its time.
I can hide as long as I want behind the argument that I simply don’t fit into the social contract world we live in today, and it may even be true, but that doesn’t change the fact that insofar as humanity is concerned, I am a failure.
Work. Breed. Die.
Maybe Jill is right… maybe its all just angst, not in an introvert or emo sense, but external, regarding the world as a whole, the utter meaninglessness of life and the sheer horror at the evil that humanity commits against itself and the world everyday, I suppose it would go well with my cynicism, and utter lack of faith in humanity.
Does it even matter?
