Category: Technology

I’ve been on “vacation” the last few weeks here (and in reality I’m at Lake Keowee with Anna’s family this week), but I’ll be blogging here more often starting next week.

I’ve got a BlackBerry 8830 that I love. However, there’s no camera on the device.

Here’s what I really want… a device (not another mobile phone) that would allow me to take pictures on the fly and wirelessly get them onto the web via wifi.

Anything out there that would accomplish this?

I wish the Apple Touch had a camera!

So, I’ve spruced the place up a bit.

I’m going to be posting here more regularly about religion, history, politics and marketing.

Thoughts?

Shawn, Lisa, Jim and I recorded GeekCast 25 today. It was one of our best (in my opinion).

GeekCast 25: It’s a Google World : GeekCast.fm: “The regular gang of Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson once again commenced for GeekCast 25 (our silver anniversary!).

This week, the GeekCast gang all stuck around for the entire show and tackled topics ranging from the PMA to the iPhone to smart blogging.”

Here’s the mp3.

this could be nifty for use with the blackberry.

Want:

Mordechai Cogan and Hayim Tadmor, II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary « Biblical Studies Notebook (BSN): “II Kings (Volume 11 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible) is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great prophecies of Elijah and Elisha, and of the legendary conquerors of not only the Jews, but the whole of the Middle East – Sennacherib, Hazael, Tiglath-pileser III, Nebuchadnezzar, and Shalmaneser.”

Looks like a great translation by two highly respected scholars.

I joined a new political themed podcast with a few friends from the online marketing industry today:

RedHatBlueHat 1: Who’s Wright and Who’s Left? : GeekCast.fm: “This is the inaugural episode of the ongoing weekly political podcast RedHatBlueHat featuring Todd Crawford, Tim Jones, Shawn Collins, Mike Allen and Sam Harrelson.”

The show goes about an hour but is really entertaining and full of political theory and analysis from all sides of the playing field.

Here’s the mp3 or head over to GeekCast for the stream.

Let me know what you think!

Here’s the first lap of the Richmond Race from Saturday night May 3, 2008:

There’s also a set entitled “Richmond Race Pictures” on my Flickr page if you’d like to see how things went on Friday for the Nationwide Series race and Saturday for the Cup race.

I had a blast.

More soon (and Darlington pics coming next week after the race there followed by Charlotte)…

So I’ve gotten really lax with my decision to open source as much as I can with my life as a form of my own little protest against corporate control of our content and art production.

I’m typing this on a Mac while listening to DRM’d music on iTunes, so clearly I failed.

However, I’ve been playing around with the new Ubuntu distro and it’s quite compelling. It’s compelling enough to make me consider going back to Ubuntu as my full time operating system (as it was for about 2 years during the 5.10-6.10 days).

But, as with all things, there’s a tradeoff. I enjoy the simplicity yet power of the Mac when it comes to podcasting, movie editing and even blogging (MarsEdit ftw). That’s not to mention great apps like Evernote, TextMate, Skitch, Pukka, Coda and wireless EVDO that I use on a hyper daily basis. I know there are analogs for all of these within Ubuntu or on any Linux distro, but they aren’t as polished and intuitive on the front end.

Not only that, but the “cloud applications” that I use and love such as GMail, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc are things that I would need to give up to make myself feel more at ease. I could certainly use Ubuntu’s built in suite of apps or either move to platforms like Fastmail or 30boxes that don’t sare me as much as Google’s suite (I know, I know… tin hat).

Yet, Ubuntu keeps calling to me. Others have done it.

Anyway, just thinking out loud here.

So true…

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