Yesterday, I became the proud owner of a Cingular Treo 650. This is an upgrade from my 2-year-old Sprint Treo 600. The biggest advantages of the new device is the muchly improved screen and backlit keyboard. The other advantage is that I’m on Cingular/AT&T’s network. The GPRS network from Cingular already seems to trump Sprint’s CDMA technology. And Cingular actually has an SMS system that works in timeframes of seconds, not hours. The other great feature is the higher-resolution camera. Shutterbug that I am, I had tried and failed to setup my old phone to transmit photos to my blog. But with the new phone, Versamail setup with my Trotz.com email, my account at Flickr.com, and good ol’ reliable Moveable Type, my mobile photo blog is now up and running. The picture quality won’t be great, but think of this as a modern take on Lomography. And it will probably be the first location we post pictures of Baby Trotz when that blessed event occurs!
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9 days
Today was a good pregnancy day. Amy had a doctor’s visit (Dr. Fisch) this time), and baby and mom received clean bills of health. This was Amy’s first visit with Dr. Fish, and she spent quite a long time. We now have a ‘kick-sheet’ to keep track of the baby’s activity – ten movements in ten hours or we call the doctor. So far, that doesn’t look like it’s going to be a problem – Amy gets punched and kicked every few minutes or so it seems. It would have been cool to have the baby today – the new baby Trotz could have shared my brother Seth’s birthday, the first day of Spring!
FireFox Goes Madison Ave
Not clear if this is a student project or ad creative Firefox.org plans to actuallly buy ad time to show, but Screenhead (via Waxy.org links), seems to think it’s legit. Not bad, but then again, it’s not too direct about what the heck Firefox actually *IS*. Watch the Quicktime clip here at the Savannah College of Art & Design’s student website before the management yanks the clip for sucking too much bandwidth.
Kudos to CNN
Nice to see my employer, CNN, getting a tip of the hat from USA Today. CNN has created the first regularly scheduled segment on the blogosphere. Seen weekdays during Judy’s Wooruff’s Inside Politics, the brainchild of new CNN head John Klein launched on February 14th. Klein is quoted:
“We want to demystify blogging,” Klein says. “We want to peel back all those layers and also do a reading of the blogs that our audience doesn’t have the time to do.”
I couldn’t agree more. Yeah, if you’re reading this blog you probably have already heard most of what they talk about each afternoon – but the segment goes a long way toward educating the other 99.999% of America what blogging is all about. PS – They are using a couple of spiffy Macs for the segment. What’s not to like! ;-).