So I am fiddling around with a bit of commercial software in demo form and it looks like it will do exactly what I need the iPhone to do to mostly replace my Palm Tungsten C (finally). As a phone the iPhone is simply awesome. Best sound quality of any mobile phone I have ever […]
Tagged iPhone, Palm Tungsten C, PDAGot to help an old friend get set up at work today, as he is starting as a contractor. Also got to use the rpcinfo, fuser, umount, killall, and mount commands again for the first time in nearly a decade… I love me some UNIX-foo, but NFS still sucks (though it fills the void). Built […]
Tagged geek, Personal, UNIX, workThe Obama campaign is running a negative campaign message on the internet. It is not the first, nor (likely) the last. Yet I see a very specific difference between the Obama campaign’s official messages and those of his opponents John McCain and Sarah Palin. His are factual and pertinent to the debate about wether his […]
Tagged 2008 election, financial crisis, Keating 5, McCain, ObamaThe New Yorker has endorsed, and it is worth the read. New Yorker Endorses Obama They explain, in good detail why this election is so important, and why Obama is the man for the job.
Had a great, if exhausting, weekend with La Belle Compagnie in Charlottesville. Went to Shebeen Pub both Saturday and Sunday for wonderful South African food and pub food. Interesting mix of cuisines. The American History Weekend event was fun, lots of very interested visitors, and weather that got a bit too warm if you weren’t […]
Wow – Obama has an iPhone application: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphon Interesting use of technology. I wonder if those same features can be made available to volunteers who do not have an iPhone (which I suspect is most of them).
Tagged 2008 election, iPhone, ObamaIt is very important that we replace the current congress with some fresh ideas, new attitudes, and a willingness to work with President Obama in the new government in order to get the change we need for our country and our world. That means targeting elected congress-critters who have been voting with the Bush administration, […]
Tagged 2008 election, Politics, VA-02, VA-05, VA-07, VA-10I am not even sure this is a bug, but it is a strange and annoying behavior. When I upgraded from iTunes 7 to iTunes 8 for Mac, most of my Smart Playlists stopped playing more than one song with each play command. The playlist would only play one song and stop. Very annoying, you […]
Tagged iTunes, Music