Lord knows I love my wife to death. But, sometimes she says the strangest things. For example after I got home from work today (technically yesterday, which may end up confusing things... anyway) we had this conversation:

Me: "Hey I've got that trip tomorrow, could you wash that one pair of jeans for me?"
Susie (indignant): "Now why didn't you ask me that today!?"
Me: "Uh... It... is today?"

This isn't quite as good as other such gems as "I plead the first!" in response to being asked to reveal an uncomfortable truth, or my personal favorite as we were driving in Fall Creek Falls state park upon spotting some deer along side the road:

Susie: "Oh, look at those deer."
(rolls down the window)
Susie: "KA-KAW! KA-KAW!"

Now, I'm not exactly and expert on deer, but I'm pretty sure that shouting "KA-KAW!" is not the method employed by deer hunters when trying to lure their quarry. Any hunters out their may feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.

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Posted by Casey at 12:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I don't really know, but I signed up because I kept seeing mention of it at various places and I am nothing if not a good lemming. If you like to find me, I'm listed as somegeekintn (what else?). So add me as a friend or something and make my phone or iChat, or something do, er... something.

I expect this is one of those things that makes me say "Oh, neat!" for a week or so and then gradually falls into disuse.

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As I mentioned in my last post, I had been anxiously awaiting this year's MacWorld keynote in hopes of finally getting some news on Apple's upcoming cell phone. You see, my Nokia 3650 has been getting a bit long in the tooth and I've been looking for something newer for quite some time. But I waited as rumors of an upcoming phone from Apple persisted. I'd wait and at least see if MacWorld shed any light on these rumors.

The Pearl

Unless you've been living under a rock, you have, by now, heard that indeed the iPhone was announced and was initially hailed as the single greatest invention ever, dethroning 79 year champ "Sliced Bread". Personally, I'm more partial to sliced bread. Sliced bread doesn't cost $600 and doesn't require a service agreement with Cingular. Still, the iPhone certainly looks to be quite a bit better than my old Nokia, right?

More details regarding the iPhone emerged during the week. Details such as: No removable battery, no expansion slot, and most damaging, no support for third party apps. Ow. And iPhone only comes with 8GB of memory max, so it isn't going to be able to replace both my iPod and cell phone.

So the iPhone isn't looking like the phone for me... sniff. On the bright side, that means I can upgrade my phone now! And so I did. After careful consideration, I am a proud new member of the Crackberry club.

I've never really understood the BlackBerry appeal, I wasn't even sure that they were actually phones or just messaging devices. Obviously I don't follow this stuff closely. During my phone search, I stumbled across the BlackBerry Pearl aka 8100, and it's perfect. Has most all the features I want (note to Sling Media: please support BlackBerry!) in an attractive and reasonably sized package with a respectable user interface. And it does all this for $600 - $300 less than the iPhone (YMMV) and you don't have to wait 6 months to get one.

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Posted by Casey at 2:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Watching the MacWorld keynote transcript trickle into sites like Engadget is not only frustrating, but a little sad, and so I waited until after lunch to discover what new goodies Apple has in store for us this year.

First up was more details on the Apple TV, nee iTV. Pretty much as expected. 720p out is good. Built in hard drive: good. Otherwise, not much new to see here.

On to the big announcement: the iPhone. Of course this announcement too was expected, though the device itself exceeded my expectations. It looks as if Apple has managed to shoehorn almost all of the functionality one could think of being useful into this device and still manage to create a user interface that makes it easy to use. As I continue reading the transcript I'm thinking how much would I pay... heck I might even get this if it's $500... well it's $600. Yikes, ok not a stretch and then: with a 2 year contract only available at Cingular. D'oh. I'm not keen to switch from T-Mobile. Still, June is a long way off, maybe I'll warm to the idea by then.

I continue reading the transcript waiting for the one more thing, but there isn't one. Unless Apple dropping the "Computer" from the company name counts.

Still "Top Secret"

To be fair, I was most interested in hearing about Apple's new phone, but a close second was finally discovering what those "Top Secret" Leopard features were that Steve referred to during the WWDC keynote. Ostensibly these were kept secret to prevent the folks in Redmond from "starting their photocopiers" any sooner than necessary. I reinterpreted that to mean, whatever we have up our sleeves isn't stable enough to demonstrate at the moment. And either it's still not ready, or Steve didn't want to chance a mass loss of bladder control of the keynote attendees brought on by the announcement of too much Cupertino goodness. I would rather he took that chance. Leopard is supposed to ship in the spring and it would be really great if developers had a chance to take advantage of these features at the same time Leopard ships.

So Apple dropped Computer from its name today at MacWorld where there were no announcements regarding its computers or the future of the operating system on which they run. The organizers might also consider changing the name of the event to AppleWorld.

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