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We're standing with Tom Moody at his elevator installation for the dumbo art festival. I can't believe how many people came out for this. Very cool.
Two nights ago at Barramundi I dropped my sidekick from about three feet onto a very hard floor. The screen was open, but the unit landed squarley on it's bottom. Thwack.
I picked it up and it was still on, but frozen. Rebooted without a problem and everything was working again. Nice.
Still working on the follow up report. I doubt anyone has used it more than me.
Flat rate wireless data pricing seems to be catching on.
SPRINT PCS JOINED Verizon this week in announcing a nationwide flat fee pricing model for unlimited access to data on its 3G PCS Vision network. Verizon launched an unlimited data plan on its Express Network (3G) this summer.
While my Sister and family were in town we did a little site seeing. One stop was the Winter Garden. I never knew it was called that. This is the glass enclosed space that used to be connected to the WTC by a walkway suspended over the west side highway. I knew it as the yearly location for the orchid show. In any case, it is now rebuilt, and instead of connecting the WTC, it features big windows looking across the street at the huge pit. Probably the best viewing location, although there is really not much to see. As before, palm trees dominate this really cool looking space.
That was harder than I expected. But I finally have my gateway built so that I can email the server the tiny pictures from my sidekick, and the server will take them out of the mail box, put them in the image folder, and add the image information to the database.
Turns out that email attachments are a pain. And PHP imap functions are difficult to understand. Devshed has an excellent article that really helped. Not sure if I could have done it otherwise.
Get ready for a steady stream of tiny low res pictures.
Clear short piece on the broadband paradox.
Not really related, but one semi interesting thing I've noticed through using the sidekick is that the most important thing about broadband is that it's always connected. Speed is nice, but being always on is more important. I'd like to see everybody connected.
Adhocracy. Nicely put. This is important stuff. (via treedragon)
The entire text of the new O'Reilly book Creating Applications with Mozilla is available on line.
At one time I was very excited about this sort of thing. I thought that Mozilla would be the cross platform development environment that would break the microsoft stranglehold on the industry. Didn't really turn out that way, but it's not exactly a bust either. Or, I mean, while the truth might not have lived up to the hype, there's still a lot of cool stuff you can do with Mozilla. And it's a great browser, which is sort of the point anyway.
2 billion year old nuclear reactors? It's true. (via boing boing)
Apple obsession on the big screen.