Joe SzilagyiTech person, writer, gamer, political junkie
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Tired eyes
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It was a long, long weekend, between going all over, festivities, and helping Tony and Heather move. Ow.
…and see the abuse I put up with behind me?
There are days when I’m glad I’ve made the career choices I’ve made and grateful for the ones I’ve lucked into. Case in point is when I read this note that a friend had left on his door, by his apartment manager…
We had a great time at PAX today. Wil Wheaton delivered a killer keynote speech, that I mentioned here before. We got to chat with him briefly afterwards, and he took a picture of Andi’s three volumes of his books (we’d bought his new book from him at the show). I coined the phrase “Wheaton trifecta“. w00t!
Read this, LOL: With over 5 colorful buttons you can touch, or even press multiple buttons at the same time for true, patented multi-touch technology. iPoor goes back to the basics, allowing you to memorize phone numbers and thus increasing your IQ by 17%.
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Digg: Check out the Official iPhone Tool they included with my warranty service packet. Seriously, you can’t make this crap up.
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I mentioned it here, and I just this morning ordered a PPC-6700 Windows Mobile 5 phone/Pocket PC. Another good review can be found here. The Amazon reviews, which are usually (for me, anyway) a good indicator of how something is were split, and hit and miss. Most of the grumbling was about random one-off sounding stuff, so I’m not worried there. This phone has been one of Sprint’s top sellers for over a year, so there’s got to be a nice reason for that.
Thanks to Orb2069 on Livejournal, I scored a $200 mail-in manufacturer’s rebate, to go with the $200 credit I got from my carrier. Final cost: $210. It’s got a neat slide out massive keyboard, which is good, because I despise tiny qwerty keyboards. I should have this thing on Friday! I wonder if I’ll be able to SSH from it? Images shamelessly lifted from the Gadgeteer article:
I’ve been swamped at work of late, and we’ve been out and about a fair bit when not working to decompress. That’s why the blog and Livejournal had gone dead of late, and it’s taking me ages to get back to anyone on e-mails and Instant messaging (among other things, that are done with…). We just got back from a three day weekend with family out on the Olympic Peninsula, and this week looks to be even more hectic. It’s the Bite of Seattle, Dolores O’Riordan is playing Seattle, and some crappy book is coming out on Friday (pre-delivered from Amazon, w00t!).
And, if all goes well, I may be the owner of one of these bad boys for only $350 this week, rather than the $550 retail price. Long, convoluted story. Suffice it to say, Sprint takes care of customers with accounts dating back over ten years for their cellular service when push comes to shove. For the nerds out there, yes, I know a ‘newer’ model with Windows Mobile 6 is out this very week. I don’t need nearly the firepower that model has, and I specifically need Windows Mobile 5 for my purposes. This model will easily last me 1.5 to 2.5 years, I’d imagine. It’s not the best smartphone for Sprint. That would probably be the IP-830W, but that’s a sexy international model. Which I can’t afford, and again, Windows Mobile 6. Alas.
I do love having a million things to do, though. It’s refreshing. So is the nice tan I got this weekend, and the fact that I spent time in as close the real world is going to get to the Misty Mountains. Just gorgeous, out there.
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