June 19th, 2008

It is finished: I'm iPhone-less

This used to be me. Not the guy in the sweater, but the guy with the bag. But I wasn’t Asian. Nor did I wear a sexy t-shirt/button-down ensemble. This is the saddest day of my adult life. In preparation for the iPhone 3G (“The same, only with 3G”), I’ve given up my iPhone to a relative in far off Poland. I swapped out my SIM card, placed it into a Nokia N95 8GB, and now… → Read More

June 5th, 2008

Anti-energy drink movement makes me sad

When Aerosmith released a chart-topper called Livin’ on the Edge back in 1993, the opening phrase “There’s something wrong in the world today, I don’t know what it is…” sung by Steven Tyler would have sounded far different had the song been written today. This is what’s wrong with the world today; an anti-energy drink. Why? Why? Why? I’m not going to argue that “Drank” is a… → Read More

October 26th, 2007

Sad clown: No cross Mail.app/iPhone transmission

So maybe everything isn’t totally rosy in Leopard world. Apple promised we’d be able to sync notes from our iPhones to Mail.app but it turns out this is impossible. The new Mail.app has a sort of “Note to self” feature which is actually an email generated to look and act like a little note. The notes appear in your mailbox as a mail message, provided you’re not using… → Read More