n_maher

On 9/11 I was in my office prepping to go to a ground breaking ceremony for a large project I was working on. I was on the phone with a client when she said, "Oh my god, a plane just flew into the world trade center." I clearly remember thinking that it had to be something like when that little plane crashed into the white house. Our office internet was horrible but I logged on and was viewing live news coverage when the second plane hit. The rest of the day is pretty blurry, it was a very quiet office, despite no one having any direct connection to people working in NY. What I remember even more vividly is a trip that I took just a little over a month later. At the time my brother and I had a tradition started of taking a yearly motorcycle trip together to a race within a few days ride. That year we swung through NYC to visit his roommate from Cornell, Brian. We met up with Brian and it wasn't till about mid-way through dinner that he just blurted out that he worked in the WTC, in one of the smaller towers. He proceeded to relay one of the most horrific stories I've heard. More than anything I remember him talking about how he just started walking, trying to find a way home, and how it took him something like 8 or 10 hours to figure it out. I later learned that the wife of a guy that I used to ride with a lot was supposed to be in NYC that day, for the opening of a new branch of the company that she worked for. Due to reasons I can't remember anymore she hadn't made it down that day. The branch of her company was in the upper half of one of the towers. The last thing that sticks out about my 9/11 experience is that I went fishing with my boss the Saturday after the tragedy, while all air traffic was basically still grounded. The sky was strikingly blue, in a way I don't think I've seen since, without a wisp of a cloud or contrail to be found. We both just stared at it for a while in horrible awe. As for Bin Laden and how this played out, I don't have much to say. I'm hopeful it'll mean less bloodshed.

Ouch, that sucks. I might now of a used one for sale if you end up looking for a replacement on the cheap.

Happy Birthday!

That's pretty much been the prevailing rumor for a while now, it'll be interesting to see how they limit user's access to music and other "protected" content, if at all.

Mojito - not from scratch, but still good.

Better late .... Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Seconded, it's finally the device that I wish the SB3 had been years ago.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass and all that...

Sweet Todd we have a few of these at work and they are a rather nice car.

Here's to hoping for a swift recovery for Ollie.

Have they made mobileme free yet? (serious question)

Initial transfer, sure, use a cable. But after that wtf?

One might argue it shouldn't take a cable to sync at all...

I have audible and have downloaded the first book.

Looked again, found it.

This is mostly an inexpensive trial to see if something like the Xoom or other one much more expensive tablets coming out later this year would be worthwhile/useful/etc. So far, I'm pretty impressed but I do have a few thoughts. 1. I think Apple does have it a bit more "right" with the non-widescreen aspect ration screen. This might be less true on a device with a better screen, the G Tablet is much (and justifiably) maligned for a pretty crappy screen. Portrait viewing is not great with this narrow a screen. 2. Apple had better get off their ass or hope that Google has really effed up Honeycomb and won't release the source code soon. The G-Tablet is way faster than a stock iPad (perhaps not the 2) and I haven't even overclocked it yet. Also, once developers for Android get a little motivated to make more tablet-centric apps the race should get really interesting. 2a. Google had better get off their ass and finish it up already and get it out there. They've got manufacturers lined up and ready to go and they need to pounce on the incremental update that was the iPad 2. They also need to work hard with content providers like Netflix to bring that service in line with what Apple is already able to offer. Hell, partner with Amazon and tell Netflix to piss off if you want to but get a streaming paid media app on your stuff now. 3. Being able to add a sdcard is sweet. All told I'm into this for $330 shipped and it's got 32GB of storage, not too shabby. It is limited in how it can use the sdcard because it's running a hacked OS but even as bulk storage it's great. No idea why apply avoids this other than wanting to charge $100 for 16GB of memory. It's always stuck me as odd that the price point between the 16, 32 and 64 was an even $100 despite the memory bump being twice as much (better value?). What it really means is that Apple is making more $$ on the first two, probably. 4. Widgets rock. I don't get why Apple is so slow to adopt something like this. Even if Apple just did a few, in house widgets to start with it'd be to their benefit. The ipad with its pages and pages of apps all neatly lined up as individuals or folders just looks old-tech to me now. Again, once tablet focused widgets start rolling out for simple things like Twitter, Facebook and news type stuff it's going to be even more obvious how much of an advantage this is for google. That's it for now, more later as I continue to tweak and do a little comparing with Ian's iPad next week.

Lots. I try to think of it as the computer telling me to spend less time browsing forums by randomly making it look like less is going on.

Peter, Have you spoken with the owner/manager of the place yet? I can't believe that whomever you were speaking with put you off until Tuesday unless he/she didn't want other people finding out about their fuckup. Me, I'd be livid as well. But don't expect them to offer all that much in compensation, they're in an insanely tight-margined and heavily competitive business and they are probably already figuring that they lost you as a customer so there's not much left for motivation for them. I'm not saying they don't owe you something but just offering a perspective that I've been faced with as well. If it were my business I would have had you in there as soon as I found out about the mistake and done whatever was necessary to a) put your car in a safe and drivable condition even if temporarily and offered one hell of an apology.

Ok, ok, fine I'll read the books. I wish they were available as audiobooks but so far I can't find the beginning of the series on audible or anywhere else? Am I missing something?

Watched it, really liked it, will be looking forward to more. I can't decide if I want to start the books now too...

I booted into the stock UI exactly twice, just long enough to root and install a new ROM. It's going pretty well so far, with just a few minor issues.

This post brought to you by the Viewsonic G Tablet.

Al, as others have said, it sucks.

Hell yes, that's one of my favorite summer beverages. Enjoy the R&R, Dinny.

I've found a brad nailer to be very useful.