G1

Another year, another phone. 2 years actually. T-Mobile seems to have transitioned to mainly 2 year contracts to subsidize their phones. I've moved up to the G1, the first Google phone. It's written to death on the net, I don't have any insights to share. No, that's not quite right, I do have an insight. InvisibleSHIELD, while a nice product, is a bitch to put on. And if it's not on just right, you get these little tiny pockets around the edges that collect schmutz, and start peeling back. It's annoying. An expensive first try. I can't decide if I should try and bitch at InvisibleSHIELD to replace it for me or not. On the one hand, I probably didn't quite get it right. On the other hand, their are NO FREAKING DIRECTIONS. Sure, there's a video on the website...it tells you how to put the nice flat rectangle on the nice flat surface. There's not really any hints on how to put the bizarre shaped cut on to the curved corner surfaces though. You are all on your own there. Which means you'll probably so something wrong the first time. I've got myself riled up, I'll email them.

Anyway, this is the intro post, I'm going to see if blogging from my phone is any better. Blogging has returned I think mostly to what it was before, a modern day version of a diary. I think it'll suit me well for now. There's still the access problem. I put information and things I want to remember here, but if it's not at my finger tips, not well indexed and searchable, it's not that helpful. We still need something else.

The Jester asked me the other day that if brain augmentation through technology were possible, would I do it, and of course I would, no hesitation.

Ok, world of G1(with the badly applied InivisbleSHIELD) here I come. I hope.

No critical mass

So it's interesting. I've got flickr going from my cell phone, I've got twitter going from my cell phone. I can post to the blog, twitter, or flickr, all from my cell. But there still is some critical mass piece missing. There's not this nice transition or merging of their functionalities, especially where there is overlap. It still feels like forcing things together.

I liken this to the difference between separate database, spreadsheet, and word processing programs that can share information and work together and the Microsoft Office suite. There's still some thing missing which makes it feel like a nice integrated experience.

I think that digsby is trying to accomplish some of that. This also reminds me of long time back when Apple had these object oriented content pieces would combine to form Voltron or something equally impressive. It was called OpenDoc. Looked really nifty in the demos, never seemed to go anywhere.

I suspect that there is still some magic piece missing in the seemless integration and interfacing to related data and content that is produced in fundamentally different ways. Too much context switching maybe? If you consider how you would present a document, say using a Word doc as a container with embedded Excel charts, video, and other items, it feels still very clumsy. Individual apps interact well with people, but the products of those apps merged(dare I say 'mashups') together doesn't interact as a whole very well even if they make something pretty looking.

murder/mystery party

i'm at a murder/mystery party. I'm not participating, but I may try to figure it out, tho I have already missed a bunch of the bios

You twit!

I've joined Twitter! Strangely appealing. Sounds really not that useful when you read about it, but has some odd appeal when actually using it. It might be that they've hidden images of the hypno-toad on the website. I'm not sure.

danny just stares at the boobs

he said he has a bad habbit of just staring at the boobs. I for one will be hiding the junk.

gardening

for many years no i have tried my thumb at gardening. mostly the results have been mixed but this year i think is the good one. I really felt last year I fianlly had gotten a handle on the basics.

Also last year, I told myself I would buy plants at the nursery instead of doing seeds, but I decided to give seeds another try. Mostly because I felt I have all the pieces to go from seed well, butI think I may stil augment with nursery plants.

The picture is my rigged up with whatever is handy setup. Two trays underneath have seeds for various veggies, the one above is marigolds. I am always pleased that the seed packets say 7 to 14 days germination, but I usualy get some in just a few days. I use a heating pad for warmth.
Not shown is where I am using the radiated heat of a electric water heater thing to start some other seeds. I think I will add a humdifier to the closet when the seedlings are too large for the tray covers.

Lilia sucking down soup

lilia eating parmesian spinich soup