After having an iPhone for a little over a year now, I’m very pleased to see a surge in apps available for it.
Some of them are quite productive and others are plain fun. Recently, I couldn’t notice that alot of the new programs deal with fart sounds.
Mine’s even jailbroken to try to take advantage of more apps but even outside the App store there doesn’t seem to be any fart apps.
Sure, it’s all in fun but is this what we’ve reduced the iPhone and all its capabilities to?
Yesterday I inadvertently placed a bluetooth handsfree set on the palm rest of my work’s laptop. On the back on the BT set are some fairly strong magnets to hold to the visor clip. When I palced it down, the drive area started to make a moderately loud chunking noise. Didn’t think much of it at the time and then the laptop went dead.
Apparently, the strong magnet bent the drive’s arm thus making it pretty much gone. The real stupid thing was just before it happened I had gotten a coffee and was going to back-up then but decided to do it at the end of the day after more data entry. Boy, should’ve done it, huh? Not only that, I found that I last backed up 20 days ago. Normally I back-up every couple of days.
I used a drive from an extra external drive to replaced the dead one. As of now, it’s been restored back to Oct 6th data-wise and I figure a week or so to re-enter the lost data.
This year’s Blue Angels show brought me to two new locations. One I thought about more recently and one I dreamed about for years. The recent one was pretty good and made a new friend.
Thursday – Survey flights and some practice. Got some good shots and the place wasn’t terribly crowded. They started with four planes and the two solos. After about 15-20mins of nothing, we thought they were done and we left and got some coffee. I then went back to work to get my car and saw them flying again. So I dashed back to where I was shooting (running maybe 1/4 mile while being out of shape) and got back just in time for a practice sneak-pass.
Friday – full practice. Using the more familiar Canon system now though not the 1D Mk II I usually use, I decided to use the new 50D and a 100-400. I had called earlier to have the guys charge up the battery and I topped it off while killing time. So, when I get there and shoot maybe 20 shots, weak battery! Fortunatley, my new friend Dave was there and he allow me to use one of his spare batteries.
Saturday – Showtime! I’m at my dream location of many years. Gorgeous view of Alcatraz and the bay. I decided to go back to the Nikon D300 and 70-300VR. I also brought a video camera just for fun. Well. I wasn’t quite what I envisioned. Great to just watch but visibility was a little limiting.
Sunday – Encore performance. Back to my no longer “secret” spot but required a pass to it was almost as good a being secret again. Getting there was hell between the Niner game, Italian parade and the Fleetweek crowd but we (Dave and I) managed. I brought the video camera again. Last night while reviewing the footage from the day before I had 40mins of battery life. As I was setting up, I had 5mins! Aarrgh! Not a battery issue again. I figured I just got be careful and time it right for the sneak-pass which what I brought for. Checking my script which was nearly perfect on Friday, they jumbled their routines alittle. Leaving was another matter. Originally, I thought if I can’t get to the parking lot I could park at my sister’s which was about 7 blocks away. Well, it took about 20mins to a 1/2 block and 45mins to get into moving traffic.
Summary.
It’s been two full RT commutes since the new law went into effective and I’m glad to see the weeks of warnings have for the most part paid off. So far I’ve seen 3 drivers (2 Male/SUV and 1 female/luxury sedan) still talking with their headsets to their ear. Far fewer than I thought considering the other law about having your lights on when your wipers are on. I still see quite a few not doing this and yet it doesn’t cost anything to buy!
Death can be dealt in many different ways and levels. Who’s to say one is right nor wrong. This year, I’ve seen two people deal very differently with the deaths of their spouses.
Does a sudden death make it easier to go on with one’s life?
Nearly over the my cold now. Unfortunately, I’ve passed it onto my wife. Hopefully it’ll be a mild case.
I’m writing this one using FrontPage to see if can apply styles to my blog entries.
Hmmm, seems to be more work than it’s worth…
