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On the rare chance that anyone is looking here for WWDC info… umm… that’s so unlikely that I’m not even going to finish the thought. I am at WWDC though. But I, along with the rest of the developers here, will be concentrating all of my efforts on breaking twitter. You can see all of the action here: http://twitter.com/samhc
Hi 8 Us
Yeah… I’m on a bit of a hiatus right now (could you tell?). I’m just trying to get some job/life/post-graduation stuff going in the forward/upward/non-wayward direction (and it’s going pretty well… thanks for asking!). But fear not, when I return (and this doesn’t count), sam bot dot com will be bigger/better/stronger than ever before!
‘Til then, brothers and sisters, blog on!
P.S. I want an iPhone.
We Fear Change
Whoa. Apple.com. It’s all… different.
Oh, the Disappointment!
I’ve been really struggling with a good way to say this, and I’ve decided redundancy is probably the best approach. Here goes: Today’s WWDC keynote was a…
big
adjective
1. large, sizable, substantial, great, huge, immense, enormous, extensive, colossal, massive, mammoth, vast, tremendous, gigantic, giant, monumental, mighty, gargantuan, elephantine, titanic, mountainous, Brobdingnagian; towering, tall, high, lofty; outsize, oversized; goodly; capacious, voluminous, spacious; king-size(d), man-size, family-size(d), economy-size(d); informal jumbo, whopping, mega, humongous, monster, astronomical, ginormous*
…disappointment. Honestly, the highlight of the keynote (for me) was the announcement of the future absence of the brushed metal look (which I’ve said good-bye to long ago, thanks to Uno). Yeah, aside from being a great sub-genre of Heavy Metal, brushed metal is getting a bit tired! (Ha!)
*Special shout-outs to the OS X thesaurus for this one!
Let’s Get It Together!
Less than two hours to showtime, people. Let’s get it together! Set hammock to light sway. Coffee, hot! Point all browsers to Mac Rumors Live (or Engadget). Keep a “new blog entry” window at the ready. And please, let’s make sure that “i” key is all polished and ready to go. I have a feeling that it’s going to get a thorough workout today.
iHammock
Well what do you know… this year’s WWDC kicks off next Monday… er… tomorrow. I guess it sort of snuck up on me. And so now the question is, “what’s it gonna be, folks?” More iPhone fun? Leopard stuff? Something brand new? Only the Steve knows for sure.
(And in other news, I’m blogging from a hammock. Yes, I know, my socks are very stylish, thank you.)
Mmm… Kudos Onslaught
Well, after being disconnected just as I was giving my phone number to the customer service rep (you know… just in case we get disconnected), and after trudging through the automated help interface twice, being put on hold while forced to endure a never-ending Kenny G. medley, and then finally being connected to a real live person, and having them finally connect me to the correct real live person, I have successfully accessed my home wifi network. Yay!
The solution was as simple as putting a “$” in front of the WEP password. Wow. Wouldn’t it have been much simpler and easier (not to mention, more cost effective for SBC/AT&T/Yahoo!) if that minute, yet critical, nugget of information was included in the li’l install booklet? Or perhaps if it was available on their help site? (“How did you query their help site without internet access?” you may ask. Thankfully, the upstairs neighbors have been allowing me to steal borrow internet from their unsecured wifi network for about a month now. Thanks guys! (That’s for dominating the communal storage space with your heaping mounds of junk.))
Anyway, the true reason that I’m posting this is twofold. Of course my main motivation for publicizing this gripe is to… well, gripe (really though, isn’t that the primary usage of most blogs?). But my secondary reason, and the one that makes me seem less whiny and quite possibly even selfless (and therefore, the one that we will be focusing on here), is simply to get this solution, the “$” before the WEP password, out there into the boundless ether of internetdom. Come on, I can’t be the only one experiencing this problem.
So hopefully, Google will index this solution, make it findable, I’ll be a great boon to many, and there will be much rejoicing. See, I do my part to give back to society. Let the onslaught of rightfully-deserved kudos commence! And just for the record, I will gladly accept all forms of kudos… even especially those in bar form.
Palm, You’ve Done It Again!
Congrats Palm, you’ve done it again! You’ve added another unimpressive and uninspiring piece of hardware to your already lacking product line.
Those creative and forward-thinking guys and gals over at Palm Inc. (or Palm Pilot, or PalmOne, or Access OS, or whatever their name is this month), have just released a spectacular new product. Something so spectacular and new that you’re likely to curl up in the nearest corner and cry. Yes, cry. Cry till your tear ducts have nothing left to cry and they poof out vapor clouds of dried tear powder. And when someone asks why you’re crying in the corner (because inevitably, someone will), you can tell them that you’re crying because now, thanks to the innovative innovations emanating from Palm’s headquarters, humanity’s long stint of suffering and agony is finally over. Brothers and sisters, these are not tears of sorrow. Nay! They are tears of joy! For today, Palm released a laptop. But wait! Not just any ol’ laptop. It’s a little laptop. Hurray!
See, not all that impressive, is it? What really gets me though is the mounds and mounds of media attention devoted to this product’s release. Maybe I’m missing something… and perhaps you can help. Okay okay, fun time! Yay! Complete the following sentence: Palm’s new laptop thingy is great because
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(I’ll even start the first one.)
Indy!
Hot! I just read that a portion of the filming of Indiana Jones 4 will be taking place in The Have (okay. Not have. Hayv… with a long A. Like HAVEn. Get it? That’s what all the cool kids call New Haven. Are you a cool kid? I’m a cool kid.)! Apparently, there’s going to be “some kind of car chase on Chapel between College and High streets.” June 28-30. Yeah. That’s hot.