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Archive of entries posted on July 2007

See Alex Ross, save animals, visit Keith

arbc.jpgDon’t visit me, visit Keith of Keith’s Komix.

From http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11152:

NORTHBROOK, IL – Renowned comic book artist Alex Ross will be signing at Keith’s Komix, 528 S. Roselle Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, on Saturday, August 18, 2007, from 4 to 7 pm. Proceeds from the event will benefit Heartland Animal Shelter in Northbrook, Illinois.

This is my usual store, so I was planning on going and beering afterwards anyway.  Its good to see Keith get the press.

Church of the Drazi?

drazi01.jpgAt our church last Sunday, at the gathering of the youth, the youth pastor was telling the children the story of the Good Samaritan. To relate it to the children he used green paper and purple paper, instead of different tribes of men. Sitting up front with my daughter, I kept thinking of The Good Drazi.

Oh, by the way, PURPLE!

2 part question

  1. When following your daughter riding her bike around the neighborhood, how trashy is it to be walking and drinking a beer?
  2. Same question, but now you know the beer is Duvel in the proper glassware?

iPhone review

specs_measurements20070627.pngI wrote this for work, but I thought I’d repost it here, stripping out some of the work specific stuff.

Last Friday July 6th at about 1 I picked up my iPhone. I wanted to give it a serious couple of days of use before I posted about it.

We all heard and read about the activation problems in the first 24 hours or so. I’m happy to report that those issues were non-existent when I went to activate. Almost everything you do with the phone starts with iTunes, and activation is no different. I fired up iTunes, plugged the phone into the USB port and just started answering the questions. The activation went very smooth and I was mostly using my phone within 15 minutes of getting back from the Apple store. The snag I had though was in transferring my number from my old carrier. It took them 24 hours to give up the number to AT&T. During that time I could make calls and do network functions like e-mail and web surfing, but I couldn’t receive calls. Once that was done, it went like a shot.

Synchronization is also done via iTunes. On my OS X based MacBook Pro, this provides for a very tight integration with tools that Apple ships with OS X. The good side is much like an iPod sync, things just go when you cradle your device. The down side is that you’re tied to using iTunes. If you’re on OS X or Windows this isn’t really an issue. For those on other platforms, this could be a limiting issue. I haven’t tried syncing the phone with Windows so I can’t comment on what you can and cannot do via iTunes on the Windows and how well it integrates other than knowing what tools Apple says is supported on the stats page.

The rest of this will really focus on the parts of the phone I really interact with. If I don’t mention an app or don’t really talk about it, I haven’t used it much yet.
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