I just read a couple really good articles about how completely ridiculous Apple is being with respect to how and why they’ve been rejecting certain apps for the iPhone. Here are the links:
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iPhone 2.1 firmware
Ok, I know it’s still relatively early considering the firmware update just came out less than 72 hours ago, but MAN! Steve Jobs touted this as a major update that would fix a lot of bugs, but then if you search the internet in the couple days after the update most people are talking about things like the freaking “3G” and “E” icon changes.
Granted, people are discussing other features of the update, but are we so jaded that we will see the addition of things like NON-USER-CONTROLLED-repeat-text-message-alerts and the oh-I-can-now-move-an-app-across-more-than-one-screen-without-dropping-it “feature” when they haven’t even addressed the lack of standard features like copy/paste and MMS???
Add to that the fact that the update has seemed to do nothing in regard to 3G reception for some users. I don’t get very good 3G reception here in central Austin, but after having an iPhone for a while now and traveling around the city, my experience leads me to blame at&t for THAT problem. I was a Sprint customer for over 10 years before switching to at&t on July 11, 2008 for the iPhone 3G, and I can say from personal experience that Sprints 3G CDMA EV-DO network is years ahead of at&t’s 3G network…at least in San Antonio and Austin.
However, even with all these complaints I am still addicted to my iPhone. Some of it may have to do with the fact that lately I spend most of my time at home where my iPhone is always connected to my wi-fi network. If I had to rely on the 3G and EDGE networks, I know I would be an even unhappier camper.
Kia or Jag?
Anyone notice that the new Kias look like Jags…kinda???
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Birthday
So another birthday has come and gone…I am now 33.
Emily is back at work this week, so I hung out with my friends Paul and Matt for a little while yesterday. This is Matt.
Then Paul and I went down to the Springs for a couple hours. It was really nice to be down there on a weekday afternoon and avoid all the weekend swimmers. When we first walked in I immediately noticed how quiet it was. It was cloudy for most of the time, but we did get a little sun for a while.
I also had a last-minute get-together last night at Phil’s Icehouse with my family and a few friends that could make it. Andria (whose name I had originally spelled “Andrea” but she didn’t tell me!), a friend from law school, stopped by with her dog Ace. The weather was nice and it was good to see everyone, but as I get older birthdays seem more and more just like any regular day of the week. I’m not sure if this has to do with getting older, or just the fact that I don’t really do big celebrations anymore.
Apple announcements
Apple is having their event today (which is also my birthday) where it is rumored they will unveil new iPod Nano designs and possibly the iPod Touch 2.1 software. It is also rumored that iTunes 8.0 will be announced or released, and I just have to say that I am really excited about this possible new visualization.
Too bad they probably won’t be releasing the 2.1 software for the iPhone 😦
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Alaska vacation
I took the Texas Bar Exam on July 29, 30 and 31, 2008. Then my generous in-laws took me and my wife on a two-week trip to Alaska. Some pictures from the trip can be seen here. A couple samples are below:
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My wife Emily
This is my wife and I love her like crazy. In case you haven’t heard yet, we are expecting our first kid in December. We both pretty much thought it was going to be a boy, but at Emily’s first sonogram we found out that we’re having a girl!
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Hungover???
Woke up with hangover-like symptoms today, what’s this all about?!? Headache, achey, stuffy nose and general confusion, and without the benefit of a nice bit of binge drinking last night. Oh I know, maybe it’s the havoc I’ve been putting my sleep schedule through lately. Staying up until 4:30 and 6:30 am can’t really be that bad can it? No time to ponder it now, got to get up to the library and start studying for that mortgages final that I have in… 2 days. Shit.
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Eating babies
Anyone who doesn’t understand the desire to eat little baby fingers, fillet their little thighs, or to poke a straw through the soft spot in a baby’s head and suck out their brains like Capri Sun, well, they just don’t get it.
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Tearing away and rebuilding
Sometimes people are wonderful–I mean not all of them, but on occasion you come across one that does it just right. They’ve likely been being all kinds of awesome all their life, but for whatever reason you didn’t fully see it before. Maybe you weren’t ready to see it. When you meet up with those kinds of people in life it’s pretty awesome. I know I tend to use “awesome” a lot, but that’s just how it’s gonna be. Plus, is there a more awesome word than “awesome”? Don’t think so.
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