In case you missed some of the gear during the Olympics, Wilson (who apparently were one of the approved manufacturer) is selling some of their left over stock. They only have T-Shirts and it is today and August 21st only at the corner of Jacombs and Cambie in Richmond. $10 a T-Shirt. Tax included.
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I am surprised for such a company like Apple that their web site is still not reformatted to be nicely viewable on the device that really made them what they are today (ok perhaps I am exaggerating a bit). This morning, I wanted to see what the price of the new unlocked iPhone 4 was when riding the skytrain to work. I still got to their standard page and it was painfully slow over 3G and still hard to browse. Perhaps they should give BraveNewCode a call and have them do their mobile site for them. I think Duane would like that. Been on a low carb diet since last week. Now it is not really a real no carb diet but a low version that I made up. Essentially I don’t eat any potatoes, rice, bread, cereal, and desserts. After a meal, I am quite nicely satisfied but about an hour before the next meal, I start to be so hungry… poor me. I did lose about 5-6 pounds last week but now I am stuck at the same weight. I drove by Earls on Fir and Broadway on Friday and noticed the nice line up of cars in their parking lot
In case you don’t see it well, there is a Porsche Cayenne (bit cut off), Porsche 911 (or is that a Boxster?), Mercedes, BMW 3 Series, and a Lamborghini. I didn’t realized Earls had gotten so expensive. I guess they have to pay those “models that serve”… Since we got a new toy (Canon SX20 IS), we took some video and lot of pictures of your recent trip to Cannon Beach in Oregon. Here is the resulting video: Now I will credit the movie The Beach for the inspiration with using the song Porcelain from Moby for the video. ok I know I am over a week late but I was on holidays last week. I got to watch the finals in a “lounge” at a McDonalds in Woodburn OR. Good thing my kids were enjoying the play area. Well as expected, there was not going to be any changes at the top but some of the lower positions changed and for bragging rights purposes, here are the final results: My iBrick is now back to a iPod touch like device thanks to Todd. This post is actually straight from the device. Pretty nice. Now I can post from my couch… Seems like Google is chopping the Nexus One. Now I was always skeptical about the whole Android thing since specially it was like Google showing the finger to all their partners (Motorola, HTC, and others) that had chosen Android as their platform of choice but I am quite surprised that they killed it after only 6 months. I guess they saw the numbers and were smart enough to read between the lines. I wonder if there weren’t other deals in the background to lead them to that decision as well. Interestingly enough I was playing around with one today (not the first time I did but perhaps the first time I really tried things) and I have to say they have quite a bit of catching up to do compared to the iPhone. The device didn’t respond well to my clicks on the screen. Not sure if my fingers were too dry or what not but I have never experienced that on my iPhone. Also it wasn’t always super clear as to when I was supposed to press the menu to exit from an app versus hitting the “return” key to do the same thing. Also it took me a while to realize the home screen was not showing all the apps. Only the apps you select to have on your home screen. Now that may just be cause my brain is predisposed to expect iPhone behaviour. UI aside, I think the biggest barrier to entry for them will be transiting folks from the iPhone. I now have about 26 GB of music properly cataloged / classified / organized within iTunes. Of that 26 GB, bunch of them are MP3s I converted from my CDs, others I acquired one way or another, and about 600 on them purchased from iTunes. Unless I have a way to connect an Android phone over to iTunes, I am likely not going to move over. Now I see there are “backdoor” ways to get your music over but then you lose iTunes which would be a bummer (note I use to not like iTunes and prefer Winamp but that changed when I bought an iPod). Also as you saw from how I turned my new phone into an iBrick, I am getting a bit worry about using backdoors to do things. Another thing Android will have to battle will be the apps people have purchased for their iPhones. Will they throw away all of that? Well I guess I am jumping ahead assuming the iPhone has the market cornered which is far from the truth but unless Android provides the same user experience that the iPhone provides, they will have some a hard time. Some days I just long for how easy things to use to be … here is a picture of my first walkman.
A friend of mine introduced me to OpenStreetMap (OSM) a while back. OpenStreetMap is much like Google Maps when Google Maps first started, the one difference is that it is operated by the public much like Wikipedia is. In that manner, the maps are more up to date then say Google Maps cause they get updated pretty much as soon as some changes are done in your area. If they are not done, you can go ahead and update it yourself. There is now a plugin for WordPress for OSM so I am testing this out now. Could become another interesting toy to play with. More to come. All right, the finals are set. Since no one picked Netherlands to win and Emrah1 is currently leading and he picked Spain to win, he will win the $180. I will leave till Friday for anyone to prove me wrong.
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