iPhone 2.0: the saga continues

some friends have asked "how is the ol' iphone working?" or "what'd you switch too?" well, i have yet to switch, but i will next month. i kinda thought maybe the G1 Android-based phone from T-mobile, but it looks kinda outdated, and as much as the Android software holds promise, it'll experience some first run glitches and THOSE are the things STILL driving me crazy about my iphone.

yeah, the iphone 2.1 software came out, and Steve Jobs said it would get rid of crashses and bugs. uh, NOPE, try again AGAIN. it DID get rid of some of my glitches, but it replaced them with others. now my phone won't download my email unless i tell it to, in spite of it being set to automatically fetch every 15 minutes. is my email THAT critical? NO, but the phone isn't doing something it's suppose to do. it also still likes to close whilst i am typing a text message, and the predictive type seems to not be working as well, or quickly as before-and i CAN'T type that fast. 

so my search continues, i am pretty close to pulling the trigger on going back to a blackberry. hmmm.

Goodbye, My Friends I Love You All

*so let me start by hoping (and uttering a silent prayer) that this silly posting doesn't somehow become an ironic and untimely post... ps - nerd alert! pps - i am eating thrifty chocolate malted crunch a i type this. it'll make sense in a sec.

i like science. if i didnt suck at math i just might be a nuclear physicist. some of you might have read that the world is going to end on wednesday. i for one say, bring on the science, collide some sub-atomic particles, show us the video footage and LAUGH whilst doing it all. i know those CERN scientists have a sense of humor, the proof is in the puddin'.   

i for the record, do not believe the world is going to be swallowed into a man-made blackhole, but i do think it is slightly possible, though not probable, that come wednesday parts of europe may need new class photos taken for google earth. i pray it all goes according to plan and we discover even more about our little 'verse. if that youtube vide wasn't enough i'll let brian cox explain, he's better at science than I, and he's got better hair. watch his TED video here. and if you don't know what TED is, you just found out, go watch, learn and be better for it.

oh and tell all the people you love how much you love them then go eat your favorite food sometime today, because i guess there is the slightest chance that we'll all be gone wednesday.

kisses, 

Aaron

flashin' chrome

i pretty much dig everything google has brought into the world. gmail, maps, google sketchup, today they launched their very own web browser, Chrome. i have been a firefox user for quite some time now but after less than a day of use, Chrome is my new browser. i know that i have only begun to discover the tricks and features, but i like it. it is designed with the web in mind. i know, you are thinking aren't all web browsers made with the web in mind? yeah, no. somehow Chrome just works, it imported all my bookmarks and passwords from firefox, and somehow i haven't had to go install all those plug-ins, like you do when you first use a new browser. somehow it all just works. of course this version is called a beta(test/develpoment version) and i have discovered one bug, when scrolling vertically via "virtual scrolling" on my trackpad, Chrome let's me scrool down but not back up a page. hope that gets fixed quick. other than that, my only complaint is certain online accessibilty issues i am having with my school's network, it doesn't recognize Chrome yet, so i have to use firefox to access online classes. go download Chrome and give it a rip.