Just a few miscellaneous things I’d like to share.
Firstly, if you do not regularly read Lifehacker, this is a good week to start. They have had a lot of interesting articles this week, from their mentioning of the new Ubuntu release through today’s articles on recovering a deleted Word Document and on preparing your Mac for the Leopard OS. There are many times when I get frustrated with how Lifehacker piles on one “worthless tip” after another, like how to make a wine-rack out of cardboard tubes, but as a blogger myself I understand all too well that you can’t satisfy everyone all the time. By and large, they have earned their reputation as a top-notch lifehacking site, and I recommend them for your feed reader if they are not already in it.
Secondly, I suppose most of you have seen that Apple is planning on releasing an SDK for the iPhone in February, making it possible for developers to add some great third-party apps to the iPhone. Like a lot of techies, this intrigues me, but I am pretty content with my BlackBerry Curve. I have seen comments by people who own an iPhone and a Curve that the Curve is easier to use. There are probably some who say the opposite. Nonetheless, it is good that Apple is making it possible to expand the iPhone’s capabilities.
Thirdly, I just finished reading John Polkinghorne’s Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship
Fourthly, as I mentioned in the previous post, this has been a frustrating week for me, debugging problems that resulted from my beta testing of some blogging software. Well, the frustration continues. Once I solved that problem, I noticed there was a minor problem with the coding on the site design I was using. In “fixing it,” I hosed it up even more. I give up. I will just keep this site design until someone comes out with a “canned one” that is “perfect” and that I don’t have to tweak. Enough is enough.
Finally, my best wishes to you for an excellent weekend. I will “see you” later.
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Thomas R. Hall 10.20.07 at 1:47 pm
As I’ve mentioned before, I can’t wait until the rumored Apple PDA comes out. With an SDK (allowing development of the iPhone and iPod Touch so far, presumably the Apple PDA if/when it arrives), I see a lot more very neat programs being written to take advantage of the innovative UI on these devices.
Still, that will be a PDA/web browsing device for me. I love my BlackBerry Curve as well. The BB OS is very stable and makes an excellent phone.
Agreed on Lifehacker. They are one of the only sites I still read regularly that have a high signal-to-noise ratio. Several others have lost my readership due to inundating readers with content, but not quality (unlike this site - your posts are always insightful).
Bruce 10.20.07 at 2:23 pm
Dang, I forgot all about the rumored Apple PDA. A product of getting old I guess.
But, I sure look forward to it, too (now that you have reminded me).
The high noise-to-signal ratio of a few used-to-be-good sites has driven me away from them, too. Shame, because they were really good at one time. Lifehacker just keeps pumping out some good stuff, though, that makes the noise tolerable.
Thanks for the compliment on my site, Thomas. I worry about having too much noise on it. And, I am really going through a writer’s block problem right now. I have some topics in mind, but wrapping my brain around them is just not happening the way I’d like for it to. Probably just at a low point on the cognitive part of biorhythm.
The BB is incredibly stable. I “had to” reset it once, because I was trying to view a website that was just not loading, and I could not back out of the browser. Aside from that once, it has been as stable as one could hope for.