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Sienna

While versitile, the first generation Sienna is hardly a work van.

Tornado Room

I'm not drinking Blatz. I'm drinking Spotted Cow. I am ordering the venison though.

Framing myself into a corner

Just trying to figure out how to frame the ductwork monstrosity into a simple but not prone-to-causing-head-injuries soffit. Steel framing really hurts my brain. I'm gonna sit here and eat a hot pocket and draw this.

My Front Page

Let's see if the TypePad iPhone App (which is the best of the ones I've downloaded so far) can left justify my iPhone screenshot. Here you can see which apps are important enough to have made the front page of what is now officially a toy. Proving the axiom that the good comes with the bad my employer decided that after almost ten years of asking, we were getting company-provided phones. BlackBerry Curves to be exact. So while I'm overjoyed that I no longer have to pay out of pocket for my work phone, I lost any possible justification I had for upgrading to a 3G.
Buy enough about work. As you can see from the previous post, I jumpped the gun and upgraded early, which turned out to be smart, given the activation fiascos today. Given the refinements, I would have paid for the upgrade. This thing is a mature platform now and simply puts other devices to shame. Too bad they are hampered by the U.S. cellular provider market.
Enough said for now. I'm going to turn on my lightsaber and make some noise!

Hello World

Well, I cheated and downloaded the iPhone v2 firmware early just so I could get to the App Store. This was posted (and Twittered) with the TypePad app.

Weekend Wrapup

iPhone cases and such

Via Mark at BoingBoing, Bobby and I were drooling over this cork-covered iPhone case while waiting for an emergency Genius session today to replace my dead iPhone. The case is just as cool as it looks and sounds (and is $34.95 at the Apple Store, which is more than list). My iPhone doesn't live in a case during the week though, as I need it to be as thin as possible to slide into my suit pocket with my Moleskine notebook.
For workouts and weekends though, I bought a combination case from Marware, that will protect it from harder home/weekend use and has an armband for running. The fit and finish is a bit iffy, but most neoprene cases are like that. The worst features are the holes for the camera and headphones, which are never quite in the right place. On the same trip to the Apple Store (the first one) I also got a glare-reducing (and face-grease reducing) screen cover for the iPhone made by Power Support. The covers are nice (you get two), but Power Support wins the award for the most impossible to open packaging short of a blister pack. Their cardboard envelope was glued tight on both ends and I had to rip the hell out of it to get it open. A nice little perforation would have worked, but nooooo.

That's all for now. I'm off to shop for higher-power USB hubs, as I'm charging an iPhone, two iPods and powering an external drive, off of my current hub.

iBrick

Looks like my replacement phone didn't last too long. Crashes in Safari and in iPod point towards bad RAM or some other hardware issue.
I tried to restore it, and ended up with this.
Off to the Apple Store.