Category: politics

06/20/09 08:10 - 64ºF - ID#49015

I <3 John Hodgman

Hey spoke at the Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner yesterday.

Also on twitter: twitter.com/hodgman

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/19/09 07:41 - 71ºF - ID#49007

Good News, Bad News

They fixed the water main, but the pressure from turning it on made some toilets explode.

Ah, Friday.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/19/09 04:30 - 64ºF - ID#49004

Broken Water Main

A water main break at work flooded the lawn, and also, no bathrooms. They're working on it now right outside my window.

--- edit to add video ---

Testing mobile video posting -- no .mov. So this is manually uploaded.

The quality isn't too bad - it's additionally compressed by the phone before emailing it, and the video was taken through a window with reflections, and then I had to convert it on the desktop from .mov to .flv, and then I think (e:strip) compresses it further. But it's pretty clear anyways. The original file is much better.

::Download Flash Video::

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06/19/09 02:20 - 63ºF - ID#49003

iPhone 3G S

New phone arrived:Finally, good close up photos and 3G, so fast. I love it!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internets

06/18/09 12:51 - 61ºF - ID#48997

Hmmm...

Rock It, Shock It, Spock It:

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: video

06/15/09 01:59 - 64ºF - ID#48980

1899 Bike Tricks

Filmed by Thomas Edison in 1899 (!)

via kottke

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/14/09 07:42 - 73ºF - ID#48974

Water Rocket

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/13/09 03:53 - 67ºF - ID#48934

D&D

Finally mainstream?

(also iPhone is losing orientation metadata like Paul says... hmm)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/12/09 05:02 - 65ºF - ID#48896

Traffic Monster

Some kid was arrested for making this:

News article:

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: tech

06/09/09 01:41 - 63ºF - ID#48872

iPhone 3G S

I can't wait to get it, my current phone's battery is starting to die the past month or so, only holds about a day's charge. Didn't want to pay for a new battery in the mean time so I'm glad they're releasing this in June.

I've been using the beta version of the iPhone 3.0 OS for a few months and it rocks, and as always Apple's API's are a joy to use. Since I use it for development I can write off most of the cost of the hardware ;) Now I just have to actually ~~release~~ finish one of the my half finished iPhone apps...

I've heard from a couple people that it's kind of a boring incremental update, but since I have the original version of the iPhone, it's actually a fairly large step up for me. Mostly, due to the 3G network and 4x as much storage. 32gb, yum. Also, the new camera is a huge upgrade, w/ auto-focus and macro. Sick of blurry looking crap photos.

jenks writes at 03:39:57 06/09/09 - Comment #49005: Yeah really. That's about the most retarded reason I've ever heard.

And I'm no computer guy, but- even if they DID have to go manually change a feature on every account, would that really take 2 months? Can't they write some little program that would do it in like 5 min?

And, if they have manually put all iphones on "no MMS" accounts- I wish they would bounce them back to the senders or something.

I mean I can handle not sending MMS myself, for now. But I hate that people send them to me, and they get no error or anything, but I have no clue they've send it, and then they're annoyed that I don't respond. At least bounce back "unable to send, this user cannot receive MMS" or something.

Grr.

And while I'm griping about ATT- do you guys drop calls like ALL THE TIME? For a company whose ad campaign makes such a big deal about 'fewest dropped calls'- I had NEVER dropped a call before switching to ATT. Now it happens OFTEN. Now, I don't know if that's ATT or the iPhone, but I have my hunches.

jim writes at 02:17:39 06/09/09 - Comment #49004: Sorry, $70 for data & tethering - as opposed to just data, which is currently $30 not $60.

jim writes at 02:17:03 06/09/09 - Comment #49003: Supposedly AT&T has manually flagged all iPhone accounts as not capable of receiving MMS messages, and has to manually unflag them all again, hence the delay until late summer.

Seriously. :::link:::

Also in that report, tethering will bring the data cost of the plan to $70 from $60. Yeah right.

AT&T: fuck you and die.

jenks writes at 02:13:54 06/09/09 - Comment #49002: oh yeah and what about push notifications? they mentioned it, but I don't see it listed anywhere on the iphone site.

I was also hoping for a revamped notification manager. Like I only get a popup when I have texts, but not emails? etc.

jenks writes at 02:11:31 06/09/09 - Comment #49001: and still no flash support in mobile safari, too, right?

Not to mention that f**king ATT isn't going to support MMS and tethering right away (see my journal). Blah.

I still want one.

But the 32gb will cost me not 299, but $699, until february when my contract is up. Oy. $400 change?! I can live without video until then. Esp since a lot of what I want (cut and paste, text forwarding, +/-MMS) will be available for free in the software update next week.)

paul writes at 02:02:23 06/09/09 - Comment #49000: Ya that is lame, but this is nice :::link::: I imagine my journal will be much more interesting with an app like that.

jim writes at 01:57:10 06/09/09 - Comment #48999: And still no file upload in mobile Safari.

paul writes at 01:55:09 06/09/09 - Comment #48998: The camera is a huge upgrade in that it does video and auto focus but I am really surprised they kept with 3 megapixels when all the high end phones are going 5+.

I definitely will consider getting one seeing as the price is reasonable. What I don't understand is the 7.2mbps HSPDA. Do we have that here? The whole time it is just the phone hardware holding back the speed?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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