I’ve had the G1 for about two weeks now, and have been coding for it pretty much since the day I got it, and I have to say I love it, and regret only one thing: buying the Bronze one. So, lets start with that, and the other shortcomings, before moving on to the coolness. You’ve got three choices for the G1 Black, Bronze, and White. I’m always partial to earth tones, and I think the white one looks like a cheap plastic toy, so Bronze it was.
Don’t get me wrong, as a customer I love Amazon. But their recent policy towards mobile devices is BS. In 2003 Amazon said
“…wireless users find themselves living in an increasingly mobile world. Mobile phones are a commodity. Users have grown accustomed to staying connected while on-the-go. As smart mobile device penetration grows, more and more users are expecting their devices to provide anytime, anywhere connections to data services and information.
There’s something inherently wrong with cell phone companies these days. Case in point: my switching from a Sidekick to a G1 today, or, more specifically, my attempt to. Since I had a Sidekick I already had an account with T-Mobile, so switching to a different phone should be a non-issue. Just pay the money, update the account, and voilla. Or… not. It seems that killing my Sidekick’s service was almost instantaneous.
Wonderfully Terrible! This is not a movie that’s so bad it’s funny. No, every moment of camp and comedy is intentional and successful. Without a doubt this is the best campy zombie comedy I’ve ever seen, and, unlike many films, the trailer gives you a very good idea of what to expect. The dialogue is simultaneously well written, and intentionally terrible. The makeup is bad, and it doesn’t matter in the least, actually it may add to the humor.
World Trade Center: directed by Oliver Stone and Starring Nicolas Cage Summary: The movie was essentially: We’re cops. Oh @#$% we’re trapped! Hooray, a marine! And, the occasional “Where’s my husband?” Details: I was in the mood for some pathos, but from a source that wouldn’t leave me depressed for days. I figured World Trade Center would follow Nicolas Cage, who plays a Port Authority Police officer, as the WTC was hit, he would encounter some unexpected difficulty in his attempts to rescue people, and ultimately prevail over it.
Listen, I appreciate that you want to monetize your web site. I appreciate that advertising is the economic engine that drives the web, and that without it I’d have far fewer high quality sites to peruse, and all the good ones would probably have subscription fees. So, I’m actually quite comfortable with ads being on your site.
But seriously? There is a limit to what I will accept, and if you continue to exceed it one of two things will happen: either I will stop coming to your site, or worse (for you) I will continue to consume your sites resources (bandwidth and CPU) but use an ad blocker to prevent my from ever seeing your $@$#% ads.
And yet, as if to prove that we still have a long way to go, proposition 8, which creates a constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage, has passed in California, the state that had the guts to open up gay marriage. I think we became complacent. None of us believed that, in California of all states, such bigotry could prevail. As monumental as Obama’s accomplishment is today, bigotry, is far from dead in this country.
There are children in America today who will have only ever known a world where a black man has been president, where there truly is nothing that any of us can’t accomplish.
The world at large has breathed a collective sigh of relief, that we have chosen a president who will try and restore the good name that our country once had, a president who will no longer allow the U.
If you have any doubt, consider this. Don’t you want a president with fire in his heart? A president who is deeply frustrated by the current state of things? A president who will fight for real change? Climatologists tell us we have ten years, or less, to address climate change or the tipping point will have passed us, and there will be nothing we can do. The United States is responsible for using 25% of the fossil fuel on the planet.
Buzzbuling (v.) What a really good, but not fully-formed idea does in your head. A good idea buzzes. An idea that isn’t fully formed bubbles up. A really good ideas that isn’t fully formed buzzes around your brain with potential whilst bubbling up. Thus, buzzbuling. The added U is a result of needing to distinguish it from the truly scary concept of buzzing “bling”.
