Amazon announces the Kindle 2! Thinner, better battery, sexier? and almost $400 for an ebook reader? No thank you. I wrote my first Java program. Yes it was the simple little “Hello World” app, so now I am as proficient in Java as any monkey in the Columbus Zoo. The Office of His Holiness the Dali Lama is now on Twitter. Oh, yea except that Twitter says it’s just another faker. Another juicy nearly trillion dollar bailout package is making it way through the government channels. I’m sooo glad to see the bozos that run the failed companies and institutions getting another chance to spend billions in taxpayer money with zero accountability. Damn, I’m depressing myself…
The T-Mobile G1 is still pretty rockin’ IMHO. Got the RC33 update and not only do I have Google Voice Search and Latitude (latitude = meh for me), I also get a notification when one of my Marketplace apps has an update available, now that is pretty sweet. I’m checking out the ChompSMS app and I’m really liking the on-screen keyboard implementation it uses. I also like SkyMap. With it I figured out that the bright “star” that I was seeing in the west was actually Venus. I guess it could be Uranus since they are close in the sky right now but I tend to doubt that Uranus is visible. I’ll wait and see if the green comet coming later this month will show up in SkyMap. I’m debating on whether or not to hack android to get multi-touch in the browser. Seems like it would be kinda cool but it’s not a compelling thing for me right now.
One last thing, I made it into the alpha test group for Boxee on Windows and I am really liking this program so far. It is very similar to XBox Media Center but seems to work better already and is implemented very well. All from within one interface I can check out the movies on my pc, streaming video from Youtube, CBS, ahem.. public domain movies from Bit Torrent and even Hulu etc and it has a community popping up that seems pretty cool. Netflix soon I hope…
Signing off for now.
