It’s been just over a month since I last posted. It isn’t that I don’t have time, it’s that I just don’t really think about it. A lot of the time I’ll find something really interesting during my work day but by the time I get home it has made the rounds so much I’m tired of hearing about it and don’t feel like writing about it. The big problem is that blogging is sort of frowned upon from my work computer and blogging from my iPhone is a little rough over EDGE and the iPhone-friendly Wordpress admin plugin I installed. There is some pain involved with typing out links and such with two or three fingers. Then there is the fact that there is no copy and paste. I’m hoping there winds up being a free Wordpress blogging application in the App Store soon. That won’t resolve the typing long entries issue or the copy and paste issue, but it will resolve the web interface issue and might make other things easier.
In Politics, Sen. Obama really disappointed me with his position change on FISA. He swears up and down that it was not a position change, but rather a situation where he settled for a weaker bill rather than not have the guts of the thing at all. That may well be true but I hold my freedom from illegal search and seizure and my privacy in a very high regard. I know that he knows where the Constitution stands on the issue and the whole thing reeks of playing to center to avoid right-wing slams in the talk radio circuit (which he shouldn’t care about if he is for change) and playing to big donations from telco mucky mucks, which he swears he isn’t about. So… He’s still getting my vote but he’s lost a whole lot of “shine” for me. It seems like he’s just throwing this election away. All signs point to him coming out the victor in November but if it doesn’t wind up that way you’ll be able to point back to things like FISA for reasons why. I wanted to see him a different light, as a different kind of politician but this sort of thing is just business as usual in Washington and puts him in the ranks with the rest of the spineless Democrats we have in Congress. Clinton, of course, opposed the bill so her supporters are basically a chorus of “told you so” right now, which is to be expected and is totally deserved though they have no way of knowing how she would have voted as the nominee. The politics change a little bit then, though they shouldn’t.
In Nerdery, the iPhone 3G dropped today, to some pretty significant problems. It seems someone over at Apple didn’t account for the fact that while last year’s US-only and subsequent smaller national launches went smoothly, the entire freaking world was grabbing iPhones today. All the traffic brought the iTunes activation servers to a standstill, basically freezing new activations and upgrades to the 2.0 firmware for existing customers. This resulted in a HUGE amount of expensive paperweights, even for those that weren’t buying new iPhones today. All was eventually resolved and I have been really enjoying poking around in the App Store.
I popped over the the Apple Store in Pentagon City this evening to grab an iPhone 3G and found a line wrapped around about half that floor of the mall. Apple employees were quoting about a 4-hour wait, and at just after 8pm, there was no way I was standing in line for a freaking phone, especially since I already have the almost-as-good version in my pocket. I will try again another day.
Ok, that’s enough for now. The lady will be headed down from Baltimore soonish and I want to get a few hands in over at Full Tilt.
new podcast maybe?