Archive for July, 2008
it’s now (finally) restoring from backup. from a snapshot stored 12 days ago. I’d been really bad about syncing to my computer because it takes so FRACKING long to sync with apps now. I sure hope I haven’t lost any of the apps I bought directly on the iPod. I don’t think there was any music there that hadn’t been copied off… grumble… fracking flakey iPod Touch 2.0 software…
My iPod Touch was a complete brick. I plugged it in to the USB cable, and Aperture fired up, so at least it was recognizing the disk. But it wasn’t booting. It wouldn’t load enough to talk to iTunes. Had to force the iPod into Restore Mode (hold both buttons until it shuts off, then hold the Power button and then hold Home until the “Connect to iTunes” image appears). Grumble. Now it’s downloading the 222.6 MB iPod Software Update. Again. What a waste of time…
The App Store just said that Scrabble had an update. I said “sure. update that sucker.” After it was done, the iPod crashed. Now, it won’t boot up. Just the black screen with the shiny Apple logo. It’s a nice logo and all, but please frack off and give me my iPod back. I’ll have to do a sync with my laptop when I get home. I haven’t run a sync for awhile because it takes so fracking LONG to update. Hope I don’t lose anything…
I thought the MS Surface table computer prototype was pretty laughable, but they’ve managed to take the awkwardness up a notch with the Sphere prototype. All of the wonderful distortion of a spherical projection, combined with the limited shared visible space around the sphere to impede collaboration. Wonderful. So now I can view a distorted photograph, but the person next to me sees an oblique partially obscured view of the same photograph – unless they’re on the other side of the sphere, then they see nothing. And vice versa.
try to collaborate with one of these. i dare you.
It’s surprising, because there is some seriously cool technology under the hood, using the projector lens to detect multitouch control gestures. But they just don’t seem to get what a touch interface can really do. It’s not about flinging photographs around. It’s about providing an adaptable interface that conforms itself to what you need to do at that moment. MS seems to get hung up on the metaphor of the projection device – flat == table, curved == sphere – rather than focusing on what a truly dynamic touch interface can do.
seeds, ready to take to the wind, together for the last time before spreading their wings and exploring the world.
I’m turning twitter into a read-only medium (for me). I’m not deleting anything. I’m not going anywhere. I just need to cut down on the noise and shallow superficial connections that just aren’t real. Twitter’s just a website. It’s not like it’s real, or important.
If anyone needs me, I’m really easy to get in touch with. And I’ll periodically monitor summize to see if anyone is sending stuff to my now-silent (but still active) account…
for some reason, the ride home today was much more painful than usual. must be a low blood sugar thing, as I was shaking by about 5km into the ride. that made the remaining 10km interesting, as that’s the uphill portion…
Now that I’ve updated ucalgaryblogs.ca to WordPress MultiUser 2.6, the cool new native iPhone and iPod Touch blogging app will work. Just point it to your blog(s), give it login credentials, and you’re off and running!
What’s cool is that now all of my blogs can be managed via my iPod Touch using a native application!
For example, I used dlnorman.ucalgaryblogs.ca as the blog address, and gave it my login info. It will work with multiple blogs, too – but each blog needs to be configured separately.
we didn’t have the energy to tend a vegetable garden in our back yard this year, so seeded it with assorted wildflowers instead. they’ve finally started to blossom in the last couple of weeks…
Evan and I spent a couple of hours exploring Bowness Park (and Baker’s Park across the river from Bowness Park). He was convinced that some of the rocks that were used to make the artificial peninsulas along the river bank on the south side were from space. SPACE! He explained how they were little “space shuttles” – he even had proof – if I put my hand on them, I could still feel the heat from their trip through the atmosphere. He was also very careful to lead the way, pointing out the safe rocks to step on.