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Never used the PC-card slot...

2009-07-12T06:32:00.002-04:00

Well here's a random, I just realized that in the many years that I've had my PowerBook I have never once used the PC-card slot.

Well,... OK, I used it once! I plugged in a network adapter to see how it worked! At that point I had my PowerBook for four years and I was curious about the slot.

So how did this random thought come about? I was thinking about the demise of the Express Card slot on the MacBook Pro line of computers and how some people lamented the fact that it was replaced with an SD card slot. I personally think that I would use the SD slot much more often than an Express Card slot (based on my use of the PC-card slot on my PowerBook).

Even though I have a sony camera (which uses Memory Stick), I do have a few SD cards from when I used Windows Mobile devices. With the SD card slot I could have a permanent 2GB card (or more!) in the MacBook Pro and use time machine or automator to keep backups of some of my more important documents (like the rapidweaver site ;-) ).

OK, that's it for the random thought of the day.

People install the darnest things!

2009-07-11T07:50:00.002-04:00

One day as I was logging out of my Google Reader, I saw this popular item starting me in the face on download squad. I don;t subscribe to the download squad since that would be overload for me - I'd have to declare RSS bankruptcy on a daily basis :-)

Anyway, I had a good chuckle at this article because I have seen the effects of this time and time again. You download an installer for some application that you REALLY want, but you just click next, next, next, next through the installed without paying attention. The result? Many, many, many toolbars! When I've seen this on people's PCs I wonder why. Why do you not pay any attention when you are installing things? Not everything is mandatory! If it is mandatory it won't ask you if it has permission to install!

The other thing, about the antivirus overload, I am currently experiencing. My work machine was ultra snappy. Just McAfee and Windows Defender. With a recent McAfee update and a mandatory (by the IT department) installation of StopZilla, the boot up time of my snappy PC has diminished. Thankfully once things get going it's still quite usable.

At home I've got a Mac, so I don't have do deal with this stuff :-)

Wolfenstein is back

2009-07-10T17:43:00.000-04:00

...well it never left, but anyway ;-)

I came across this promotional Wolfenstein web motion comic - whose animated style reminds me of SIn City - a week or so ago. As someone who played the original Wolfenstein on a 386 running Windows 3.1, I found the comic adaptation of the game pretty interesting. Now I never played Escape from Castle Wolfenstein (or any subsequent games) because I was either on hardware that wouldn't support the game (like my Blue and White G3 Mac) or it was on a console that I did not own - so my only frame of reference for Wolfenstein is the classic game.

Χρειάζομαι ή δεν χρειάζομαι laptop τελικά;

2009-07-10T06:43:00.000-04:00

Την τελευταία εβδομάδα με έχε βάλει σε σκέψη όλο αυτό το θέμα laptop, αφού έχει χαλάσει το PowerBook μου. Από την μια ως geek θέλω έναν καινούργιο MacBook Pro, πως να το κάνουμε;

Από την άλλη όμως είναι το θέμα οικονομίας, και το θέμα bang-for-the-buck ή αλλιώς «αξίζει την τιμή του ο νέος υπολογιστής με την χρήσει που θα έχει;» Η αλήθεια είναι πως για αρκετά πράγματα βολεύομαι με το iPod Touch, το Nokia N800 και με το «οικογενειακό» Mac Mini. Το PowerBook αν και παίρνει μπρος τον τελευταίο καιρό είναι μόνο χρήσιμο για το λεγόμενο light browsing (αν το iPod Touch και το Nokia N800 δεν καλύπτουν τις ανάγκες), και για βασικά έγραφα Office για τις εργασίες που έχω για το πανεπιστήμιο.

Το μόνο που δεν μπορώ να κάνω πια στο PowerBook είναι οι μετατροπές βίντεο, και οι αλλαγές στην ιστοσελίδα μου μέσο Rapidweaver. Αυτά μπορώ να τα κάνω και το Mac Mini όταν δεν χρησιμοποιείτε από άλλον.

Αυτή την στιγμή ο geek πολεμάει το πορτοφόλι και το πορτοφόλι μάλλον νικά :-)

Save-it-now!

2009-07-09T03:47:00.003-04:00

If there is one thing that I've learned in my 1, 2, 3,....., 12 years on the internet is that stuff doesn't stay on here for very long. Images, PDFs, heck even HTML content won't be staying where it is for long. Sure it may be there for the next 5 years or so, but after that? Perhaps it won't be there.

There are many sites I liked, some associated with televisions hows that have since been cancelled or saw a complete run and are now in syndication, that simply don't exist anymore. Sure you can head over to archive.org and see what websites looked like back in the day, but archive.org doesn't do a complete saving of those websites. Images you wanted may no longer the there. Some content you wanted may not even be there.

So the lesson is: if you like something on the web, and it's freely accessible today - grab it! Save it! Put it in a safe place if you want to make reference to it later. Save a URL where you got it from as well just in case you need to cite it in a paper or something :-)

SonyEricsson Xperia Android UI

2009-07-08T17:15:00.002-04:00

To be honest, I really wasn't impressed by the first Xperia device. Blame it later to market with the hardware, or blame it on running Windows Mobile (or both!) - it just didn't appeal to me.

Looking at this demo of the Xperia UI running android - well that's pretty cool! Would I buy one? Probably not because it doesn't sync with iSync (yet) and Google haven't done such a great job with providing Greek support on the device (as far as my research has proved thus far), but Android is promising.

I wonder if we're going to see Microsoft (completely) reworking its windows mobile OS...or if they will keep flogging a dead horse.

Doubting the future of humanity...

2009-07-08T03:06:00.001-04:00

There are times like these when I see commercials like the one bellow that make me have serious doubts for the future of humanity. I am also reminded of the movie Idiocracy.

Simpsons, σας βαρέθηκα!

2009-07-07T05:57:00.005-04:00

Εκεί που καθόμουν λοιπόν και διάβαζα το πρόγραμμα της τηλεόρασης μια μέρα, είδα πως ακόμα υπάρχουν οι Simpsons. Παλιότερα τους έβλεπα στην Ελλάδα και όταν ήρθα στην Αμερική πριν 15 χρόνια (ουάου!) συνέχισα να τους βλέπω.

Τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια έχω ξεκόψει από τα δυτικά κινούμενα σχέδια. Αν και μου αρέσουν σειρές όπως το Family Guy, το American Dad (ίδιος δημιουργός για αυτά τα δύο) και το Futurama, μετά από τόσες και τόσες σεζόν με τους Simpsons, τους βαρέθηκα.

Το ίδιο έχω πάθει και με σειρές όπως το CSI που παίζονται εδώ και υπερβολικά πολύ καιρό (κατά την γνώμη μου). Εντάξει το καλοκαίρι που δεν τρέχει και κάτι μπορεί να κάτσω να δω μερικά επεισόδιά κατεβατά, αλλά όταν παίζονται στην τηλεόραση, είτε τα δω είτε όχι δεν με χαλάει.

Γεράσαμε και άλλαξαν τα ενδιαφέροντα; :-)

I dream of: a better standby screen

2009-07-06T09:36:00.002-04:00

I know that this has probably been talked about and blogged about ad nauseum, however it just struck me once again today that the iPhone/iPT OS really needs to better utilize that unlock screen! At the moment I am seeing something similar to the image on the right hand side of this post.

At the very least, there should be an upcoming appointments listing on the screen. Too much information can inundate the user on such a small screen (heck even on a big screen it would inundate people), so it would make sense to have the user choose what info they want to see and how they want to see it. Do they want to see emails? If yes, do they want a badge with how many unread emails from which accounts? Or do they want to see sender and subject info instead?

With push notifications now a reality, it would be nice to see either a badge, or a mini update on the unlock screen when you favorite application pushes something to you (like an IM from Beejive for instance or a status update on Twitteriffic)

Why is it necessary for me to unlock and flick through screens to see if there is something new? Or for that matter to check and see the weather conditions?

As a corrolary to this wish, there are two subsequent wishes:

1. Can we get Internet of USB please? When I had a PocketPC (those were the days!), I was able to share my desktop's internet connection over the USB cradle. Right now I have the iPod plugged into my Mac so that I can charge its battery. Why not share the internet connection while I am at it? I am sure that it's less intensive on the iPod than turning on WiFi (which I can't anyway because there is no nearby hotspot anyway).

2. Can we have a setting on the iPod touch that periodically automatically turns on WiFi, connects you to your preferred network(s), updates one or two apps (weather, mail, BeeJive would be my top ones), and then turns off the connection? That way you've got a faux-always connected feel on your iPod when it's at rest - it wastes less battery than just leaving the WiFi on.

There's an app for that!

2009-07-05T17:25:00.002-04:00

Here's some tech humor that I meant to post a while back but never got a chance.

I think that it is still a valid mocuadd (mock + add --> does this make sense?).

I found it humorous anyway :-)

I dream of: iDisk for Windows

2009-07-05T09:30:00.002-04:00

For the past month or so I've been using Microsoft's LiveMesh.

LiveMesh, for those that don't know, is a service that allows you to share folders on your Mac or Windows-based machine, and those synchronize with Microsoft's LiveMesh servers and your content isn't only available on that particular machine, but also online and on any other machine that you have LiveMesh (and your credentials) installed. Best of all, this service is free!

Now what does this service remind you of? Well, it should remind you of Apple's MobileMe service called iDisk.

I've been a Mobile Me subscriber for a number of years (I still have an @mac.com email address! :-) ) and I have used iDisk as a storage medium for whenever I want things both at work and at home. MobileMe touts Windows support, but iDisk is not supported! Sure you can fire up a browser and browse and download what you want, but that's a pain.

For a service that cost $99 per year it would be nice to be able to have my iDisk mount under Windows, especially when a competing and free service does provide this functionality!

iPhone IIIgs versus the S60

2009-07-04T06:06:00.001-04:00

It's funny, I used to be very anti-iPhone and very pro-S60.

I think this is turning around now due to some recent fumbles on Nokia's part and some recent wins on Apple's part.

No, at&t is still the devil incarnate but I guess in order to get a good phone you have to dance with the devil.

So what did Nokia do to change my perception of its phones? Well, it's what Nokia did not do, and what Apple did (or rather what iPhone developers did). When I was a staunch supporter of S60 (don't get me wrong, I still like the platform), I supported it because it was more stable than Windows Mobile, I liked it better than Palm and let's not get into Blackberries :-)

S60 had a lot of apps and many of them games. They've had some pretty nice hardware which included great cameras with nice optics (Carl Zeiss anyone?). Nokia has been trying to compete in the touch arena and has released a kickbutt product, the N97 (seen on the right). The problem is that for a flagship product, the camera is a the flagship camera. The N97 sports a 5MP camera while a non-flagship product sports an 8MP camera. The N97 process is a bit anemic and the OS, from several accounts, is a bit sluggish. Nokia did not put their best foot forward.

The second issue with S60 these days are apps. There is a lot of cloud functionality available now that didn't exist at the conception of S60. Social networks, blogging, microblogging, photo sharing, video sharing and so on. All of these are great applications for a phone like the N97 that sports a nice camera, good video recording and a keyboard! However there are no apps to be seen? How about blogger or wordpress apps? Take a photo you took and upload it to your blog or tumblr account. Makes sense right?

On the other hand, the iPhone has so much development going for it where you can get blogging apps, microblogging apps, social network apps, photo upload apps. OK there is no Qik yet, but we're hopeful. With the release of the IIIgs, the camera has been improved to be 3MP with autofocus. Now this may be inferior to a 5MP or 8MP with Carl Zeiss optics, but it's good enough for the money. It would be preferable to pay $200 for a 3MP/autofocus camera phone and pay another $500 to get a separate camera (with better specs) than to pay $700 to get the N97.

I suppose the economy has taken a toll on this geek's wallet and things like this are now things that one should really consider. At this point, when it comes to smartphones - iPhone and Android are at the top of my list. I would consider S60 for feature phones.

Σπαστική Ορολογία: Personal Branding

2009-07-04T05:02:00.001-04:00

Μπορώ να πω πως από τότε που άρχισα το ΜΒΑ έχω ακούσει και έχω διαβάσει αρκετούς όρους που με κάνουν να απορώ τι σκέφτονται οι τύποι που δημιουργούν αυτούς τους όρους. Σε γενικές γραμμές αυτή την ορολογία την βάζω στην κατηγορία «Business Bullshit» και περιέχει πολούς όρους αργκό όπως το synergy, win-win, και paradigm shift.

Τον τελευταίο καιρό υπάρχει ένας νέος όρος που υπέρ χρησιμοποιήστε, και αυτό ο όρος είναι το «personal branding». Για όσους ξέρουν από μάρκετινγκ το branding είναι η μάρκα σου, το τι αξίες και επιδώσεις έχει κάποιο προϊών με κάποιο συγκεκριμένο branding. Για παράδειγμα το branding του MacBook Pro δίνει μια διαφορετική ιδέα στον καταναλωτή από το branding της Dell για την σειρά XPS.

Για μια εταιρία το branding είναι λογικό γιατί κάθε εταιρία έχει αρκετά προϊόντα τα οποία πρέπει να διαφοροποιήσει κατά κάποιον τρόπο. Για ανθρώπους το branding δεν έχει καμία αξία γιατί δεν έχουμε πολλά προϊόντα να δώσουμε στον καταναλωτή (αυτόν που θέλει να μας προσλάβει για δουλειά για παράδειγμα). Το προϊόν είναι το σύνολο τον γνώσεων μας και το πως συμπεριφερόμαστε με τους τριγύρω μας.

Το personal branding, κατά την γνώμη μου δηλαδή, θα ήταν εφικτό μόνο αν είχαμε μια διπλή ζωή - όπως ο μπάτμαν για παράδειγμα. Πιστεύω πως αυτό που με ενοχλεί το περισσότερο με αυτές τις μαλακιώδεις ορολογίες είναι το ότι εφεύρουν έναν καινούργιο όρο και κάτι που ήδη υπάρχει. Όταν μιλάει ο κόσμος, ιδικά άτομα στην ηλικία μου, για personal branding, μιλάνε για το όνομα που έχουν ή πως μπορούν να κάνουν το όνομα τους.

Δυστυχώς πιστεύω πως λόγο της δουλειάς μου θα πρέπει και εγώ να χρησιμοποιώ αυτό τον βλακώδη όρο σε λίγο καιρό...

The Blue Ghost is now following you!

2009-07-03T18:22:00.001-04:00

Here's a little weekend humor for all of you.

I love retro-game + tech mashups :-)

Prototype

2009-07-03T05:20:00.002-04:00

Droooool!

I saw the trailer for Prototype for the PSP a few days ago on Joystiq. All I can say is WOW!

The trailer looks spectacular. I wonder what the game play is like....

Maybe they should make this into a movie ;-)

Bizarre powerbook behavior...

2009-07-02T06:09:00.001-04:00

OK....

Recently I wrote (in Greek) that my PowerBook is dead. Kaput - it no longer goes.

Now that I have been successful in moving all of my important files off the PowerBook and I no longer need to use it for my day to day activities, the darned thing starts working again.

Apparently the fan is the most recent thing that has stopped working, and when it overheats the machine stops working, producing the broken screen effects that I described in my post in Greek.

While the laptop is still going to the recycling bin as soon as I can afford another one, it's amazing that it still keeps on giving, despite the fact that a lot of things no longer work! (graphics processor, sound, fan, wifi...)

Σε πια γλώσσα γράφουμε;

2009-07-01T05:08:00.001-04:00

Μια αρκετά ενδιαφέρουσα ερώτηση, σε πια γλώσσα γράφουμε τα δημοσιεύματα μας στο μπλόγκ μας ή στο Twitter; Αν είσαι μονόγλωσσος η απάντηση είναι απλή. Η πραγματικότητα είναι πως αρκετοί, ως Ευρωπαίοι, από εμάς μιλάμε τουλάχιστον Αγγλικά ως δεύτερη γλώσσα και πολλές φορές μιλάμε και μια τρίτη γλώσσα ή άντε καταλαβαίνουμε και μια τέταρτη.

Όταν λοιπόν έχουμε κάποιο θέμα για το οποίο θέλουμε να γράψουμε σε πια γλώσσα το γράφουμε; Στην μητρική (Ελληνικά) ή σε μια πιο διεθνή όπως τα Αγγλικά; Το δεύτερο ερώτημα είναι αν θα πρέπει να δημιουργήσεις ξεχωριστό λογαριασμό για την ελληνόφωνες σκέψεις και ένα για τις διεθνή σκέψεις.

Εγώ προσωπικά έχω όλες τις σκέψεις σε ένα μέρος ανεξαρτήτως της γλώσσας. Αν σκεφτώ κάτι στα Ελληνικά , θα το γράψω στα Ελληνικά και αν σκεφτώ κάτι στα Αγγλικά, θα το γράψω στα Αγγλικά Παλιότερα μετέφραζα το περιεχόμενο συχνά από μια γλώσσα στην άλλη αλλά διαπίστωσα πως κάτι χανόταν στην μετάφραση. Επίσης αν το μετέφραζα στα ελληνικά δεν υπήρχε λόγος για την έξτρα δουλειά γιατί πολλοί Έλληνες ήδη καταλαβαίνουν αγγλικά ούτως ή άλλος. Τα Ελληνικά δημοσιεύματα ήταν κάτι που γενικός δεν ενδιέφερε τους μη Έλληνες, οπότε άδικος κόπος.

Το μόνο περιεχόμενο που μεταφράζω που και που είναι κανένα review για καμία εφαρμογή.

Άσχετο, αλλά είναι αρκετά ενδιαφέρον οι έρευνες περί γλώσσας και ψυχολογίας και οι έρευνες που αναλύουν πια γλώσσα (ή γλώσσες) χρησιμοποιούμε όταν σκεφτόμαστε.

Η πολυκατοικία

2009-06-30T15:42:00.003-04:00

Άλλη μια σειρά που βλέπω εδώ και κάτι εβδομάδες (ας είναι καλά ο κενός χρόνος στο τρένο) είναι Η πολυκατοικία.

H αλήθεια είναι πως δεν ήμουν και πολύ σίγουρος για αυτή την νέα σειρά όταν άρχισα να την παρακολουθώ αλλά τώρα τελευταία την έχω συμπαθήσει αρκετά. Η σειρά ακολουθεί τις ζωές των ανθρώπων που ζουν σε μια πολυκατοικία στην Αθήνα (υποθέτω δηλαδή πως είναι η Αθήνα) και ως κοινό βλέπουμε αυτά που θα περιμέναμε να δούμε: δηλαδή τις κατινιές, τα δράματα, και μερικές απίστευτα τρελά καταστάσεις.

Ως κάποιος που μένει πια μόνιμα στο εξωτερικό, και ας είναι λίγο σαλτσόζικη η σειρά, είναι κάτι που δεν βλέπεις στην τηλεόραση εδώ και σου θυμίζει Ελλάδα. Πάντως όταν έμενα σε πολυκατοικία στην Ελλάδα τέτοια τρελά δεν είχαμε ;-)

UMass Boston Class of 69

2009-06-29T06:51:00.002-04:00

It's always interesting to hear about the first of anything.

Usually those are individuals who brave the cold storm, go uphill both ways, to accomplish something extraordinary.

When I was a Senior in high school and I was thinking about which schools to attend, I chose UMass Boston because of the great vibe that I got from it despite its need for certain aesthetic and structural repairs. I came across this video on the UMass Boston YouTube channel recently and I have to say that it is a pretty nice promo video.

I wonder what my generation will be saying in 30 years when most of the current buildings are gone ;-)

Frappe 101

2009-06-28T04:09:00.001-04:00

Το είδα και έσκασα στα γέλια - φοβερό!!!!

Πόσες φορές έχω κάνει φραπέ και δεν έχω καλαμάκια!

Security Fail

2009-06-27T11:58:00.001-04:00

Here's something you don't see every day.

I was trying to log onto the student self-service system the other day to check out if there are any additional fall semester courses that I should be aware of. I fired up by browser, typed in the address for the WISER (the student self service system) and I see the warning bellow. Weird!

I typed umb.edu and tried to navigate that way - all OK - no warning

I tried umb.edu/it and tried to navigate that way - all OK - no warning

I tried wiser.umb.edu (just like before) - warning!

I wonder if someone got annoyed at the clukyness of the system and decided to report it hehehe :-)

Πάει το PowerBook!

2009-06-27T10:39:00.001-04:00

Μετά από έξι χρόνια πάει και το PowerBook!

Η αλήθεια είναι πως τα περασμένα δύο χρόνια είμαι χωρίς airport και χωρίς ήχο...και χωρίς τις υψηλότερες δυνατότητες της κάρτας γραφικών επειδή έπρεπε να το αρχίσω σε safe mode για να δουλέψει, αλλά την δουλειά του την έκανε.

Το PowerBook τα έφτυσε τελείως, απλός απ' ότι φαίνεται το ανεμιστηράκι για διαφόρους λόγους τα έπαιξε και αυτό και όποτε υπερθερμαίνεται ο υπολογιστής κρασάρει. Έτσι λοιπόν για να μην χάσω κανένα πολύτιμο δεδομένο έχω αρχίσει να μετακομίζω τα δεδομένα μου από το PowerBook στο Mac Mini της γυναίκας και όποτε έχω χρήματα λέω να αγοράσω ένα από αυτά τα καινούργια τα MacBook Pro των 13 ιντζών.

Κρίμα που δεν έχω το ρευστό τώρα γιατί δίνουν και τζάμπα ένα iPod Touch με τις αγορές υπολογιστή :-)

Αντίο λοιπόν παλιό, καλό, PowerBook, καλά μας τα πήγες τα περασμένα έξι χρόνια, κάθε μέρα στην τσάντα να σε τραβολογάω στο σχολείο και στην δουλειά.

World of Goo

2009-06-26T10:27:00.002-04:00

So...back with another Video Game Friday segment and now it's on my Mac!

I haven't played a game on a computer in ages! I do have a number of games that I bought when I got my G4 PowerBook but I haven't played those in ages. I think that the last games I played on the PowerBook were Black and White and Splinter Cell. Anyway, back in December I bought the MacHeist package of software and as always there is a game (or two) bundled in it. This time one of the games was World of Goo.

Honestly, I never really gave it much thought when I installed it on the Mac mini. I installed it with the intent to play the game eventually but I never got around it. That is until I listened to a recent 1UP podcast and some of the hosts were playing the game again. I thought to myself "well if they are playing it, and I have it, I might as well give it a try". Bad move!

Well, "bad move" in a good way. The game is frikkin' awesome! It's a combination of a physics game and lemmings whereby you have to move a certain amount of goo-balls from one end of the screen to another. The goo balls have building properties so you can build structures to move your remaining goo either vertically or horizontally across a number of obstacles. The game is so addicting that I spent a number of hours solving puzzles and time just flew by! I wonder if I got any smarter ;-)

If you have the game (through MacHeist - like me) and haven't tried it - go spend 15 minutes with it and you will be hooked. If you've never bought it, head on over to amazon (link above) and get it! It's summer, who needs to be out in the sun anyway? ;-)

Oh save us!

2009-06-25T05:52:00.002-04:00

A number of years ago, when VHS tapes were still populating the video clubs, I was looking for a film with a taste of Greece. This is before I was able to find Greek films elsewhere.

In any case, I was staring at this film called Ulysses' Gaze. Saw that it was made by a Greek director and that it had gotten some prize so I decided to rent it. What a horrible idea. The film is three hours long of hurt! I can do long films, but this particular one I could only watch in 30-minute segments. Yes it was THAT bad.

Back then I did not know who Harvey Keitel was (or maybe I did not care...not that I care now, but anyway). Keitel was bad. Really bad. He had the personality of a rotten tomato. The story was incomprehensible and it reeked of art house film pretentiousness. Up until that point I had been very lucky to be spared the art house BS.

Recently I decided to look up what IMDB said about it and I was SURPRISED to find out that people have given it a 7.2/10. 7.2 ??? Are you kidding me? This movie deserves a 5- maximum! I also looked up what Roger Ebert thinks and I was happy that I wasn't the only one that thinks that the movie was awful. This is a good summary quote:

What's left after ``Ulysses' Gaze'' is the impression of a film made by a director so impressed with the gravity and importance of his theme that he wants to weed out any moviegoers seeking interest, grace, humor or involvement. One cannot easily imagine anyone else speaking up at a dinner table where he presides.

It is an old fact about the cinema--known perhaps even to those pioneers who made the ancient footage ``A'' is seeking--that a film does not exist unless there is an audience between the projector and the screen. A director, having chosen to work in a mass medium, has a certain duty to that audience. I do not ask that he make it laugh or cry, or even that he entertain it, but he must at least not insult its good will by giving it so little to repay its patience. What arrogance and self-importance this film reveals.

Finally, I don't understand the supportive IMDB comments such as the ones that claim that Angelopoulos (the director) is some sort of wunderkind now because of this (awful) film and people who boil the bad reviews down to "Americans don't like us" and "this showcases the superiority of European theater". Please save me from bad directors, bad movies and people who think that this was a good movie :-)

HTC Hero - drool

2009-06-24T17:10:00.000-04:00

I've always been interested in android in a Geek sort of way.

Never has this OS appealed to me in the iPhone-like "ZOMG! Can I haz Android?" type of way.

This changed today when I saw a promo video of the HTV Hero.

OK, promo videos are made to induce such an irrational "I want it!" behavior, but the interface is really cool (good job HTC) and it really leaves Windows Mobile in the dust. It's making me wonder if Microsoft is going to go through some sort of Palm-like metamorphosis with their WinMo OS.

The one bad thing about the Hero, it's not triband HSPA.