I’m quickly becoming enamored of this band; I’m probably late to the party as usual but it was the song “Little Bribes” that caught my attention and I’ve since delved deeper. In fact I’m working up some words on that song itself — I think its a great exemplar of the kind of Pop that works right now — I’ll be posting soon. Check them out in the meantime.

Samples of photos taken with the new iPhone camera have me drooling. The quality of the camera in my current 2G version has been my only disappointment, my the sharpness, clarity, and overall utility of the new camera has me thinking about shelling out sooner than I had planned for an upgrade. That new dishwasher is going to have to wait I guess….

I just Bing’d myself (as in, the new Microsoft search engine). OK results, but none of the photographs are me. None. And it seems there’s this little wanker from Texas who’s pretending to be a poet, and that’s not me either (first of all, I’m fifty years old. Second, I can actually write.)

Hmmf.

It’s tempting, and I put off upgrading from my original 2G phone waiting for something like the current feature set. But, in truth, I really don’t have a pressing need for GPS or a compass, as I never travel more than 10 or 12 blocks from my home (well, actually I travel a little further for some shopping trips, sometimes all of 3 miles away) but serious trekking ain’t my thing. Likewise, I live in a constant soup of strong Wi-Fi signals here in downtown DSM, so for all networking purposes I have the speed covered.

I may relent for my birthday this August. It’s that, or a new dishwasher. And I’m serious about my appliances.

Starting next week on some Diamond updates; distracted a bit by a Dashboard project someone is paying for :). Thanks for the feedback and continued interest. Settled into the new digs with full net access 24/7 now so dev work should pick up a bit.