Entries from July 2008

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Go bless yourself

Today a man stopped me on the street and told me that he was down on his luck, living in the park across from my apartment. He asked if I had any “scraps” or “pennies,” and I lied and told him that I couldn’t help him out. He looked me straight in the eye and [...]

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Ramping up to GNOME Do 0.6

Jason Smith, a long-time GNOME Do contributor, has written a nice summary of all of the great work that has gone into Do for the upcoming 0.6 release. You may know Jason from such hits as “The Blinged-Out Do Themes” and the elusive “Window Manager Plugin,” but these hits pale in comparison to the more [...]

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

iConflicted

I recently bought a shiny new iPhone 3G and I feel very torn about my decision.
Reasons to buy an iPhone:

The iPhone data plan is competitively priced among smartphones.
I needed to buy a new phone and to get off my family’s account.
Email and web browsing on the iPhone are superb.
The AppStore is drawing amazingly high-quality applications, [...]