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Time to Switch Back to Verizon

Posted on November 17, 2008

I’ve been pretty happy with TMobile, but a storm is brewing. It’s time to switch back to Verizon cause them bastards at TMobile decided they aren’t going to focus on the BlackBerry this year. They have the G1. It sucks. So now what?! I have been reading about the BlackBerry Storm at VerizonBlackBerry.Com and I am ready to switch.

I need to figure out how I can switch and not be charged the draconian can’t-leave-fee. Earlier this year I remember reading about a class-action lawsuit that Sprint lost for charging that fee. Even if I wind up paying it, it’s a seems like a small price to pay for the new Berry.

There is still a small chance the phone can suck like the G1. I doubt it will but there is always the possiblity typing can be as shitty as typing on the iPhone. I know my fellow iPhone fanboys friends will say “hey, my iPhone isn’t shitty to type on…” and you can continue believing that despite the facts.

If the Storm can live up the hype, it will be the new reveloutionary PDA. Google must abandon HTC as an equipment manufacture. They make shitty phones. It’s all about the Berry and right now Verizon has the kush of berries.

BlackBerry Bold

Posted on September 6, 2008

When TMobile? When? Since back in March you have been claiming this phone will drop this summer. It’s Sept 7th and I don’t have this phone. I am coming up on my 1 year blackberry anniversary and no matter what you ipeople might think we have never been happier.

But it is time to upgrade to the latest and greatest. With bold lookin so sexy, I just want to hold it my hands.

Here are the current known facts of this brutiful phone:

1GB on-board memory with encryption.
Tri-band HSDPA.
Interchangable color back plates.
5 hours of talk time, 13 days of standby time.
624-MHz Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor.
Taller and wider than the Curve.

Blame it on Bluetooth

Posted on May 18, 2008

My bluetooth loves to make calls. It really loves to hang up calls. It especially likes to hang up as I am in the middle of a sentence. I guess this goes hand and hand with making calls while my phone, and bluetooth, are both in my pocket.

Since the bluetooth seems to have a mind of its own, with a wicked sence of humor, I have decided that my bluetooth needs to take the blame more often.

If a project is a late, bluetooth’s fault. If I am late, bluetooth’s fault. High gas prices, low bank balance, all bluetooth’s fault. Iraq, bad intelligence via bluetooth. Ran out of weed? Bluetooth smoked it. Looking for the leftovers from last night? Bluetooth ate them. Wondering why your favorite show didn’t Tivo…bluetooth canceled the season pass.

See what I mean? It’s very easy to blame bluetooth. So the next time the cops are questioning you about that 19 16-year-old girl you met at the Hannah Montana concert, just blame bluetooth.

WordPress 2.5 Review

Posted on March 23, 2008

WordPress 2.5 I have been a fan of WordPress since it’s incarnation. It was the best (free) alternative to MovableType. Back then I was a Microsoft junky and favored ASP 3.0. I wound up coding my own blogging CMS for the first 2 years of WDP. I remember the night WordPress 2.0 came out. I installed it immediately (on another blog) and I was extremely impressed. The use of AJAX in the admin panel was cool and cutting edge back then. WordPress has always been easy to install and very intuitive.

For those of you that don’t know, What Da Phuk! is running on a patched version of 2.3.2 (patched xmlrpc). I had been keeping my eye on the development of 2.5 and I must say, moving items around the dashboard does not an update make. Especially not a major release. I guess it’s not a “major release” but the way it’s been hyped it might as well be 3.0.

A few days ago, the WordPress dev crew announced that 2.5 is stable and ready. The key features include:

a customizable dashboard
built-in tag management
media galleries
full text RSS feeds (that’s not very impressive)
automatic plugin updates
faster load times

The load times (which were fixed in 2.3.3) make the update worthwhile. The WYSWYG content editor needs a lot work. They can’t go to Beta with it in it’s current state. The additions to TinyMCE (no, not a rapper) are nice – easy image, video and file upload…but what is up with leaving the old media buttons? They need to get rid of those modules because they take time to load. If I had more “free” time, I would strip Tiny and add FCKeditor or Xstandard to the repository. Hopefully someone will do it or at least create a decent plugin for it.

Overall, I am pretty happy with the 2.5 sneak preview. One thing that desperately needs to be added to the trunk…analytics. Firestats is practically useless. Who is up for adding phpmyvisits…anybody?

My New Phone — Blackberry Curve 8320

Posted on October 14, 2007

In the past year I have had the Motorola V710, Motorola Razr, HTC TMobile Dash, Motorola A1200 (Ming) and now the TMobile Blackberry Curve 8320. Out of all the phones I have ever had, this is by far the best! I have heard many many many people say, get a Blackberry. Especially when I first bought the Dash. The Windows Mobile OS that thing ran was so janky it made me want to run the other direction from anything “Smartphone.” It was slow, a terrible phone, crashed constantly, had problems with txts and emails. Yeah, it was a giant piece of shit.

I liked the Ming. I still do. It’s a great (and stylish) phone. But checking email was a pain and was only pop or imap. I also had to use a stylus to type. The camera sucked and supposedly a software update was going to fix that. Ironically, the Linux based operating wasn’t compatible with Linux. That’s the kind of insane shtick that causes Indian programmers to light themselves on fire. Seriously, what was up with that? Motorola Mobile 4.0 pretty much only runs on XP. Hey Moto, what’s the point of the Linux OS then? Moto fanboys, where are the Linux apps? So all of those things I just listed, the Blackberry doesn’t do any of them.

I am on hosted exchange. All of my emails, contacts, appointments, memo and tasks are all synced, all the time, in real time. It’s phuking awesome. My virtual office world has never been so organized. It’s a fantastic phone, the bluetooth HS850 works perfectly with it and the battery actually lasts. I HIGHLY recommend you convert and get a Blackberry now. Right now. What are you waiting for? Go get one!

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