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Is This An Update?

I’m getting busy with so much stuff with FeedSt. As last post would suggest, I’m still very much stuck in the “process” phase. I feel like after I’m out of this swamp, I will actually be able to write something decent.

While that’s happening, I’m seeing how frustrated I am with Google Reader in general. I’m seeing why I wanted to do this project in the first place every time I open up Reader. I’m seeing features I want to implement left and right. The question is what is the most important… and what would make someone use FeedSt over Google’s fine RSS reader in the first place?

But, in any case, 10 days remain. I have no clue what that means, because I truly am my own project manager on this one… is 10.10 the day of the closed testing? Is that when I actually start coding?

Blog Posts

After pretty much loving MarsEdit, I have continued the long tradition of creating blank drafts of post ideas; I would just jot down the title, copy and paste a couple links here and write a couple paragraphs there. This is getting to the point where I may have to do a flush of random bits and pieces of posts and start over again.

There’s this post on where I want to take the blog… again. But this time, it’s another retrospective on how far I’ve come. I’ve still got that Ecto vs MarsEdit review (guess who won that one). Confluence… I’m still vexed enough at the code to want to write on it. Holy crap, the ION Drum Rocker… maybe after I get my 3rd cymbal? (No, I haven’t ordered it… yet.) “14.2857% Time”, “The Wart”, “How Braid Changed My Life”, blah blah blah.

So yes, will these get posted? Maybe when I find the FeedSt thing to be boring, I’ll go back to blogging. The reason why I’m blogging tonight is because of what happened with… yeah, if you read the post before this one, you’ll see why I’m trying to take my mind off of stuff.

EDIT: Basically,

Wi-Fi: YES Bluetooth: YES Camera: 2 MP Size: 4/8 GB Battery Life: 5 Hours talk/video/browsing, 16 hours for just audio Price: $499 - 4 GB, $599 - 8 GB, with 2 year contract… Availability: Shipping JUNE

Time to start saving.

This device… is almost exactly what I’ve been dreaming about since the first day I had a phone. I was never happy with the phones I’ve had. They’ve always the user interface I was looking for. Even my newest phone, the d807… I was happy with the slider functionality, but the headset volume is quite low. The camera is 1.3 MP, but I keep getting blurry pictures… And man… don’t get me started with music. I always wondered when the heck we would get something that brought together listening to music, watching clips, making calls, sending emails, using the Internet, chatting online, taking pictures… blah blah blah. A do-it-all gadget.

I’ve bought all sorts of gadgets to try and have this happen. I tried to make my iPod into a PDA… I’ve tried making a PDA (my first compaq, then the iPaq, then the Toshiba…) into a music player… I’ve tried making my first MP3 player (what was it called… it used Iomega’s Clik 40 MB disks…) into something more than something that plays music.

And I’ve failed at every step of the way. This is because I’ve only know how to deal with the software that I could mess around with. I could try and hack it… but man, if only there was the hardware to do what I wanted to do.

Then Apple shows up in my life… and now… the iPhone.

Wi-Fi. Bluetooth 2.0. Freaking mini-OS X running on the thing. Not to mention… an extremely improved user interface to deal with phone calls and voice mails. Oh, and a 2 MP camera… and I’m sure it’s built solid. And all the prettiness… three extra sensors to make everyone happy.

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