It makes me curious why Google Apps doesn’t allow for current gmail upgrades. Are the two services that different that they just couldn’t migrate my account? After my recent GMail outage I signed up for the free beta lasting until the end of this month and noticed all I could do was create an account with a domain. I used scatteredmedia.com and then added my gmail account so it will import all of the e-mails through POP, it’s still downloading them in 200 message chunks. So I could essentially still use my original gmail account by using POP and the send as function built in but I’d loose my address book, calendar and chat history. The chat history and IM change was the deal breaker, I use the chat history a lot since that’s my preferred IM.
I’m here in Pittsburgh for the week to get some administration training on websphere commerce. I’m not too excited about the trip, it’s in the middle of the huge deployment project of websphere and I’m away from my girls. the trip didn’t start well either.
I arrived at Oxnard on time but it turned out my flight was cancelled so the next flight would have made be arrive here in Pitts. at 10am. I told him that it wouldn’t work since my course starts at 9 and I’ve already booked a hotel for the night. The next available flight turned into a 6am arrival, which wouldn’t work out either, I couldn’t imagine not getting any sleep and walking off the plan into class. Then finally a manager found me a flight to DC then back to Pitts. only an hour later then my original 10pm arrival. The good and bad was they had to pay for a cab to take me to LAX. Not ideal but more comfortable then a small plane that’s for sure.
So I’m here and my first impression of Pitts. lies at the airport which is one of the best airports I’ve been too. They had a huge kids area, a T. Rex, a mall and a subway. I was impressed. I rented a car and I added a Garmin which will be the best descion I make on this trip.
I couldn’t imagine driving to my hotel from the airport without it. There were 8-10 freeway transitions and the streets are so complicated and so poorly light. Its also incredibly easy to use. I’ve already plugged in tomorrows trip just by searching for IBM. I wonder how much extra the thing was, either way totally worth it.
The time difference is going to wreck me. Or maybe this guy slamming the door at 130am is going to effect me more.
updated:
I also have to add I was selected for secondary search. Where they pull you aside and search you in front of everyone for that false sense of security. It sucked.
If you have a Wii I want to be friend. You can either view my what little is shown at MiiPlaza.net or just add my wii code to your address book. Just make sure to tell me so I can add you.
Wii Code# 5194-0211-3676-0825
I’d also like to say Nintendo better fix this whole code thing and make up usernames for people. Because a 1216 digit code is horrible to have to remember and share with friends. Making it worse the Wii doesn’t even do friend confirmations. Both users have to add one another to the address book in order for it to work. What a hassle. On XBox live I had a gamertag and if I wanted to add a friend I’d just type their name in and they would get a message confirming the request and vise versa. It shouldn’t be that hard.
At least the wii does e-mailing, if you wanted to spend 10 minutes writing a short message to someone that could only reply to your wii address. Making e-mail worse if you actually had a real e-mail address like I’d expect from every wii owner.
You’ll notice I wrote this for the BridgeBlogs,
The reason for this post and my purchase of the book.
The reason for this post on the BB rather then my blog, the political Christian struggle is something that I’ve dealt with for a long time and a logical faith filled discussion here, with the community rather then the knit few, would help me and hopefully help others.
Why is it that I can’t post this on the BB? Is it because it will start flame wars or am I worried about someone asking me to take it down essentially censoring our community voice or should I have just posted it and not worried.
I’ve only told a few but my search plugin was published in WordPress標準ガイドブック a Wordpress book in Japanese. Hopefully I’ll get a copy so I can see my name wrapped around some cool Japanese text. ッ … Read More »
September 27
Another copy and past from Jason’s original post on scary stats.
I agree that BOOKS are regarded too high, almost as if they are the great tool of knowledge. In the past, books were the mainstay for increasing knowledge, fair perceptions of life and the world. Now it’s different and with many new media streams people can be very knowledgeable, still increase imagination and find avenues of philosophy without even touching a paper book.
Similar to what Nathan said, smart people have convinced the majority that books are for smart people and if you want to be smart you do what smart people do, which is read books. I really don’t see smart people reading because they’ve decided it’s the smart thing to do, I see them reading books because most are introverts and that’s a way of expression. Now I am generalizing a lot and I’m assuming that smart people are smart not because they’ve read a few books but rather they’re smart from the begining. Because it can’t mean that if I read Chomsky (never had) my scope logic is comparable to a genius.
Here’s where I flip-flop a lot.
As I said there are a lot of media streams rather then just books and IMHO these new inlets are ruining us. Since most aren’t calming and thought provoking we turn into fast passed media whores. TV, film, mags, music and the web I read only makes me only knowledgeable in the present rather then the future or the past; decreasing thought and imagination.
Unless we can consciously be aware of the numbing effects of this new media and are retroactively increasing thought through these forms we’ve essentially created a worse replacement to the books that brought us here in the first place.
So, I’m for books but personally I just can’t bring myself to complete a book maybe it’s because of childhood and just in case that’s why I’m going to take an effort in reading to Avery (or making sure Sara does) and limiting mind-numbing media from her.
My other problem; I’ve become a whore to tech, since it’s my hobby I want to broaden myself by reading a lot on the internet but the scary thing, I don’t see an end in sight. With no point of reflection, contemplation and thought in order to create something of my own it’s useless. And IMHO that’s true knowledge, when you’ve created or solved something for others that’s beneficial to all.
I’ve closed the comments so you’d go here instead.
If you couldn’t tell I’ve been really busy of late here are the three reasons: The Bridge’s transition to a new location, a new project including wordpress as a “corporate” site and finally a transition of my own. Rather not go into detail on the last two but it’s taking most of my time away from commenting on blogs (I still read them though), posting here and developing my theme or learning RonR a little more. So if you don’t see me around this week or next remember I’m still keeping up with you I just have my nose buried in a new book or I’m in a meeting or praying.
I’ve developed a fondness to RonR. Last week I went through the Apple Dev. tutorial and really noticed how easy it was to produce a web application with Ruby and Rails. I’ve also come to the conclusion that Ruby is not just another buzz word going around the web tagging along with the whole web 2.0 scene, like AJAX. If there is an actual web 2.0 going on right now, I would imagine RoR being the front runner in making it all happen. Because from I classify 37signals being web 2.0 (which reminds me of a basecamp review).
I’m so jazzed about it. I’ve bought a book and talked to Jared and Jason about meeting on every Lost rerun night to learn and develop with Ruby. I already have a couple projects in mind and i know Jared wants to get his aggregater off the ground.
Being able to do Ruby was one of the main reasons to get off my ass and start developing on my macs instead of doing the crazy sandbox online thing of editing locally and uploading them to the server then refreshing the browser to see what the changes are. Now I have php, mysql and ruby all installed on my Powerbook so I can edit it locally and test it fully before I release it online. It’s so much faster and easier. I fully recommend it and being on a mac only macs it easier, although XAMPP is extremely easy for non-mac users. I’ve installed it on XP and Ubuntu easily.
So you might see some more posts around here about Ruby and Rails. It really should be fun because I am not a coder nor a designer.
Over the holidays I started an audible account and listened to all but 30 minutes of Narnia: L’W'W’.
I’m liking the whole audiobooks thing. Although I don’t think I’ll keep the audible account since I just downloaded the whole Narnia series on BT for free. My other book was an impulse buy, the new google book. … Read More »
December 29
Why is it that microsoft thinks their software is for the average person? It really isn’t.
Office is a piece of shit. Try to explain to someone how to print labels from their address book, yeah that’s what I thought.
Another reason why OS X is so much better. At least they have easy options with great included software. … Read More »
December 27
