.: Above The Aether :.

Having come to the end of our current cell phone contract, Justine and I picked up a pair of Blackberry Curves to check our email, blog, take pictures, etc. My first impressions of the Blackberry Curve is that it does the following things very well: phone, email, mobile maps, calendar, tasks, contacts. It does the [...]

I’m headed to BarCamp Houston tomorrow.  I hope to hang with my fellow tech-heads and learn a thing or two. I’m mostly interested in the design & usability sessions, but I’m also interested in the sessions about presenting content and team building.  It’s been tough to recruit good web designers in this town, so maybe [...]

Part of me thinks the whirlwind of hype surrounding the iPhone is absolutely ridiculous. Another part of me (the nerdy, gadget-loving part) wants one anyhow. Will the iPhone revolutionize mobile communication as all of the commericals promise? Who knows. However, there are phones out today that can do all of the things the iPhone is [...]

I’m not sure this will be interesting to anyone, but I felt compelled to describe my love-hate relationship with email as a form of communication in the workplace. I hate email. You see, I get around 300-500 emails every day at work. About a third of these are generated by automated server processes and are [...]

If you’re a fan of Jonathan Coulton’s quirky music, you might want to check out an interview he did with the New York Times.  Yep, he’s bigtime now. Link (via The Sound of Young America)

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.” – Carl Sagan

I subscribe to a fantastically good podcast called the Sound of Young America by Jesse Thorn (podcast feed, iTunes subscription, archive).  Jesse posted a link on his blog at MaximumFun.org to a great interview Bill Moyers conducted with John Stewart.  It is quite long (33+ minutes) but it’s well worth it.  If you have a [...]

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You may notice I added two new features to the blog in the sidebar (look to your right).  The first one is Twitter.  Twitter is a web service that allows me to send little text updates with my phone.  The text updates are very short and very immediate.  It’s super easy to use and free. [...]

Google launched some new functionality today on their maps product. If you do a search in google maps and click on the “Traffic” button you will get some green, yellow, red and gray lines on the highways. The colors mean the following: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per [...]