Two posts in one day, this one is to test something out, but also talk about the reason I haven’t really been posting much lately. I blame twitter. If you don’t know what twitter is, it’s a microblog. You can post short 140 character thoughts, I find it so much easier to do this then write long blog posts. It’s also very convenient, because there are so many ways to post messages to twitter.
So there it is, my admission of why I have neglected my blog, and another re-assurance that I will find more stuff to talk about here.
So I’m finally writing another post. It’s been a while. I haven’t forgotten about my site, I just haven’t had much time. Between working full time with a part time job, that sometimes gets full time hours, to having a newborn baby I just haven’t found the time to write down my thoughts. So I am going to change that, I promise. So feel free to read up on all my old posts, and get ready for some new ones. Who knows you just might hear about all the awesome projects I’ve been working on when the time is right.
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I am ashamed that I have not made a post in almost a month. Truth be told a lot has been going on recently. Mainly the birth of Juliana. There is just so much going on, from bringing her home from the hospital for the first time, and then having her baptized.
Also there is work, which was going well until I had to go see the neurologist. My back is still not getting any better from the auto accident at work back in October of 2007. I still have pain in my neck as well, but not as bad as my back. The doctor decided to change my medicine and get me a back brace. Well it turns out I am allergic to the medicine he put me on, so it made me break out in hives pretty severely. I had to be taken out of work for a week to try to get rid of them. I’m currently doing pretty good with the progress of getting rid of the hives. The doctor has me on steroids and benadryl to do so. The only problem with this combination is the steroids make me hungry and wired, and the benadryl makes me pass out. It’s been a fun little experiment.
I’m going to try to post more often I promise. I also need to get my pingpress.fm plugin functioning again, so that I can update all my social media sites when I do post.
So for now if your reading this, thank you for being a loyal reader and stay tuned for more tech enthusiasm.
October 31st is not only Halloween but also the release of Zack & Miri Make a porno so go ahead and enjoy the widget that Kevin just posted on his blog.
As some of you may know Apple announced a recall of it’s iPhone 3G power adapters.
Now this is no big deal, they’ve had to deal with otherrecalls before. This is the first one I have experienced first hand.
The process was simple I filled out an online form a couple of weeks ago. Since my wife also has an iPhone 3G I filled out the form twice since that was the instructions given by Apple.
Fast forward to today, and while at work I get an IM from my wife asking me if I was expecting a package from DHL, I said no because I forgot about the new power adapter. I told her to go ahead and open it up, and she then informed me it was the power adapter. I said cool, and asked if there was two, to which she replied no. I figured OK, no big deal maybe they are shipping them by serial number, not the most environmentally friendly way to do it, but OK. So I was shocked when two hours later it was like déjà vu when my wife informed me that FedEx had arrived with another package, and it looked exactly like the other. She proceeded to open it up and confirm that it was indeed the other power adapter.
Packages
Packages
Now let’s rewind a second. They shipped the power adapters at the same time, by two different carriers? This does not make financial, or environmental sense. Especially since Apple is trying to focus more on their environmentalism.
In my opinion Apple should have shipped the adapters together since I had to use my Apple ID to sign in and order them, and they were both going to the same address. They could have also shipped them via the same carrier as to not have to use the extra fuel.
This is just my little rant, it’s not like I’m a big environmentalist myself. I just figured that a company who is trying to be a friend to the environment could make a little bit of a more responsible decision with this large scale recall.
Last week I was looking for an app to make my grocery shopping a lot easier. I had read an article on TUAW taking a look at Grocery IQ(Opens in iTunes).
After reading the review I decided that it was worth the $4.99 and purchased the app. If you are reading this review on Thursday October 9th you can get the app on-sale for only $1.99 that’s 60% off.
I decided to check out all the options, and see how the app worked. I found that it’s quite simple really. You search the database of 130,000 items to find the one you want, then click a button to add it to your list. You can also add the items to your favorites for easy retrieval later.
Grocery IQ Search
Grocery IQ Search
Grocery IQ List
Grocery IQ Favorites
The program will also give you a history of what you’ve purchased just in case you don’t remember if you bought something recently.
Grocery IQ History
You can also arrange the aisles list to represent the way your store is laid out. This helps you to make sure you get everything on your list in the most efficient manor.
Grocery IQ Aisles
You can also e-mail your list to someone in the settings menu. I think this feature is a little hidden, but I was able to uncover it after doing a little searching.
Grocery IQ Settings
Now I’m not saying this app is perfect. It is missing a few features that I would like to see. For all I know they could be working on a new version with these features.
Multiple Stores
Ability to enter prices and keep an average, so you know an approximate cost of your list.
A way for someone else to add an item to your list. Say my wife realizes we need milk and I’m at work, she could text or call me. But imagine if she could send an e-mail to a special address and add items to my list, kind of like how you can email photos to Flickr or twitpic with a special e-mail address.
I’m sure there are more things I will think of in the future, but so far I have to say that I am loving this program and use it daily. It has even taken a place on the coveted iPhone home screen.
Well October is upon us, and that could only mean one thing. It’s Halloween time. That means it’s time to shop for halloween costumes, but with the addition of the baby it’s hard to get anything done outside of the house at the moment since she is still only a few days old. The kids were not pleased about this, so they came up with there own way to go Halloween shopping. The internet, yes of course it’s the internet they are my children after all.
After looking around for a while they found SpiritHalloween.com. I let them browse around for a while, and it wasn’t long after that they had picked out what they wanted. The funny thing is they didn’t tell me about it, they both e-mailed me the ones they wanted. It made me so proud of my little geeks. So I officially reveal to you the Halloween 2008 costumes for Jason Jr & Janeen.
Jason Jr. has chosen.
Janeen has chosen
Now we still haven’t finalized the picks, since I’m a little worried that Janeen’s is a little risque. I will have to talk it over with the wife. Unfortunately Juliana isn’t old enough to go trick or treating yet, I mean we could dress her up, but we don’t want to risk her getting sick. But this did not stop me from looking for something cute for her, so if she was getting dressed up I picked out this.
Today is the day that all my packages arrive. I am very exited. I broke down and ordered a Black MacBook with AppleCare and a MobileMe – Family Pack. I figured I didn’t need the power of the MacBook Pro yet, and I can wait until after MacWorld to get one if I decide that I need the power. I also wanted to save the extra money I would of spent on the MacBook Pro and use it toward the best package of them all.
The baby is coming home today. The 5 day long hospital stay is finally coming to an end, and little Juliana will finally get to come home and see her room and all of her toys and clothes. I can’t believe how much more stuff we have gotten since the baby was born. It seemed that everyday I came home I had another car full of stuff to bring into the house.
