July 24, 2007
filed under Personal
I ran across this article today and I just had to share it. Fortunately, I’ve come to realize a lot of these recently, which has served as a great eye-opening experience in my life.
Here’s the article: Things I wish I’d known when I was younger
My absolute favorites
> You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole. The best thing you can do is stay away from every one you encounter. Being an asshole is a contagious disease. The more time you spend around one, the more likely you are to catch it and become one too.
> When it comes to blatant lies, there are none more egregious than budget figures. Time spent agonizing over them is time wasted. Even if (miracle of miracles!) yours are honest and accurate, no one else will have been so foolish.
July 24, 2007
filed under Personal
I ran across a new web app today that actually solves a practical problem using the data that is available out in the open. It’s called Walk Score and tells you how “walkable” a given neighborhood is.
AND, for a change, the goal of the site is not to get me to invite as many people as possible to come back to it so that I somehow get more benefit from the site itself. It’s a simple utility, it takes some input, gives me some great info in return and then politely gets out of the way.
This is the kind of site that if they had a “Donate” button, I wouldn’t mind throwing a few bucks at them.
Here’s the “Walk Score” for my new digs:
July 21, 2007
filed under Personal
It’s nice to see that I’m not the only person that would rather get the Blackberry Curve vs. the iPhone. Now, all that needs to happen is for Sprint to introduce it, because I am really trying to avoid having to deal with Cingular’s crappy EDGE network.
July 18, 2007
filed under Reviews
For those that know me well, I tend to change cell phones just about as often as people change toothbrushes. I have zero shame when it comes to it too, over the past ten years, I’ve been with T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel, and even Verizon. I can’t even begin to count the number of phones I’ve gone through, counting everything from dumb phones to Blackberries and Treos.
So why is it that I still haven’t bought an iPhone?
$700 for a thing of utility, not of fashion
I like to get the latest and greatest phone, regardless of how much it costs because I see it is a thing of fashion. Sure it’s got the features, the functionality, probably is the slimmest and slickest thing on the market, but most importantly, I’m the only person with it, it’s bleeding edge, and I like that. Forking over $700 for a piece of equipment that everyone else is carrying just is not appealing to me.
It’s new, it’s different, but for how long?
Here’s my biggest fear about the iPhone. It definitely does have some crazy features, instant access to the internet, etc. It does introduce a whole new way of looking at a cell phone and a whole new way of interacting with the cell phone. And I think that’s what makes it so exciting, the brand new interaction that it requires. Because of this, it reminds me a lot about the Nintendo Wii that is collecting dust in our living room right now. It introduced a brand new way of interacting with video games, and it sold like hotcakes. But here we are now, where most people I know haven’t touched their Wiis for a few months now. After $700, I’d hate to see the iPhone meet the same fate…
So what’s the verdict?
There’s a new iPhone user in my office every single day. I think I’m going to hold off on the purchase for now. On the other hand, if Mom and Dad wants to buy it for me as a gift, then hell yeah, bring it on!