The Windleverse

As the title describes I have an iPhone 3G now and in the tradition of getting a new device that can update wordpress, this post is being written on that device.

Many of you may be thinking “Jonathan + iPhone = WTF?” and trust me I’m with you here but let me start from the beginning.

On 2008-04-04 I left Photo & Sound Saving and began a search for a new job. At the time I thought I would be starting a new career at The City Of Bothell but it was not to be. Instead I was beat out by yet another idiot with a degree which is funny considering where I ended up. 2008-06-30 I was hired on at Bellevue Community College as a Network Admin.

So back to the iPhone. AT&T offers state employees a 15% discount on their monthly bills. It’s like w00t where do I sign up. The catch being a have to sign a new two year contract. Thus in renewing my contract I got an iPhone.

Here are the likes and dislikes so far.

Likes:
Capacitive Touchscreen
Makes E-Mail useful and fun again
No more worrying about finding open WiFi for Internet
Interface very fast to navigate

Dislikes:
NO T9 Input Interface!
Lack to copy and paste
Not enough key applications for free in App Store. SSH Client just to name one
Not a true multi-tasking OS.

As the Christmas dust settles I find myself staring at a wonderful white box. In my hand a controller blinks with four flashing blue LEDs. As I turn on the system the TV might as well be a black-hole sucking my free waking hours into the space time continuum. This new little Nintendo system is just awesome.

This is my first post using my Newton Messagepad 2100. It’s a little strange to be using an Internet device that was made before Internet devices were even thought of. I guess that’s what you get when you put standard technology like pcmcia in a device made by Apple with enough crazy cult followers and developers to keep the platform alive for 9 years after the product has been abandoned by it’s creator.

For $100 I think I will get my money’s worth out of it. The best 802.11b purchase I ever made has to be my Orinoco Gold card. I don’t think I have found a device yet that it doesn’t work in.

Well that’s enough text to make a post. We will see if nBlog work’s correctly or not.

Last Monday I went back again to the Nintendo employee store. I have spent far to much money on Nintendo stuff in the last two weeks but I am now caught up on Nintendo game system releases for the US. This does mean I finally own a gamecube. It’s probably a good thing that Jeff (Nintendo Guy) is leaving Nintendo because having regular access to the employee store there would be very dangerous to my bank account. Needless to say I’m a sucker for really good prices on electronic devices.

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I am now the proud owner of a gameboy micro (the black model of course). In the windleverse we test all products using the smash head model. In such each product is repetitively smashed into a human skull until either the product or the skull break. If the skull breaks first the product is considered to have passed the smash head test and is worthy of future use. The gameboy micro comes very close to passing these standards.

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This week I purchased a new harddrive for my overly outdated server. Seeing how the windleverse decentralized community storage system was not catching on in the real world I figured it was high time I took my storage problems into my own hands. The computer is old and SATA-II was the goal so a Promise SATA300 TX4 (linux support) was added. The harddive manufacture I decided to go with was Hitachi, despite their recent silly ad campaign. I guess I have a softspot for them because they took over the IBM harddrive line. So far it has been kicking ass and the 25GB of data that used to reside on the 30GB IBM is now on the 250GB Hitachi.

With the new harddrive I also have decided to go ahead and give reiser4 a try. Although I truthfully haven’t noticed any real proformance increases because of reiser4 I plan on heavily testing the atomic filesystem features during these winter months of poweroutages.

Of course if either Hitachi or Reiser4 fail you will probably hear me screaming about it here in the windleverse.