It’s such a beautiful day and I am on the way back to the office.
Picture is taken using iPhone, uploaded through WordPress iPhone Apps.
P.S. “Beautiful Day” is also a song by U2
MobileMe Echo Chamber
Apple started the .Mac to MobileMe transitions on July 9th, 2008. The transitions was anything but a smooth process. First, it was delayed by 2 hours. The .Mac web-interface was down for the next several days while Me.com was having problems. Despite of the troubles, most .Mac/MobileMe sevices were online. After a few days, the MobileMe launch finally was going somewhere. The web services went online although the performance was considerably slower than expected. Later on Apple re-explains and re-defines what MobileMe service is. The “Push” services only available between the “cloud” and the iPhone/iPod touch. Apple is still working on the “Push” service for Mac OS X/Windows. Apple also apologizes to their customers and adds 30 days extensions to MobileMe subscriptions. As of July 21st, 2008 Apple acknowledges some problems with Webmail access affecting 1% of MobileMe Members.
MobileMe launch is riddled with problems, but it is far from being a disaster as echoed by many tech-news site and blog postings. Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott called MobileMe launch as a “Crash and Burn” disaster.
Now, let’s take a look at a few things here:
- Apple is struggling with MobileMe launch.
- Describing MobileMe launch as “Crash and Burn” is not correct. If it crashed and burned, then MobileMe service would not work at all right now. Then again, this comes from Paul Thurrott the original Microsoft Defender. Thurrott thrives on bashing anything non-Microsoft.
- The same things are repeated over and over. “MobileMe launch is a failure.” The fact is those who are affected by the outtage tend to be luder than anyone else. The rest are just parotting each other. Those who have MobileMe working are pretty much saying nothing.
- MobileMe members are paying for the service and they are entitled for some compensations from Apple. In this case Apple is giving a 30 days extension to all MobileMe members. That counts for something.
Despite all of the troubles its having, MobileMe is working. Most of the blog-postings regarding MobileMe are merely copied and pasted from another site. Welcome to the echo chamber.
I like the song “Rush” by Tom Sawyer
VH1 is at it again. This time they are polling for 100 greatest Hard Rock Songs. To be honest, it is so lame because VH1 thinks that The White Stripes is any good at all. Are you kidding? What’s next? Jack White is better than Eddie Van Halen; wait a minute, The Rolling Stone Magazine said so.
Asides from that, VH1 wants the world to know that there is this one band called “Tom Sawyer” and their song titled “Rush” in the poll.
One would think that VH1 has some people watching out for any typos. What’s next? “Megadeth” by Peace Sells and “Metallica” by Enter Sandman.
Screen-shots are taken from VH1 site.
California, New Hampshire, New York, and iPhone 3G.
July 21st, 2008
Some “sites” and “weblogs” on the series of tubes are talking about the current state of iPhone 3G in ummmm…… The States. The current availabilities as of July 21st, 2008 are as the followings:
- New York City, New York, Fifth Avenue: White 16GB only
- Pleasanton, California, Stoneridge Mall: Black 16GB only
- Salem, New Hampshire, Rockingham Park: White 16GB only
What does this tell us? Pleasanton doesn’t care about the Black 16GB iPhone 3G. Meanwhile, New York City and Salem don’t care about White 16GB iPhone 3G.
Where does this post go? What is the meaning of this post? Nowhere and nothing.
Let’s blame AT&T for giving their own current and prospective customers hard times getting the iPhone 3G. Apparently some people were told to pay the unsubsidized price for the iPhone 3G. The worst part is that they are paying for it.
YIKES!
The Eagle Landed On The Moon 39 Years Ago
July 20th, 1969
Commander Neil Alden Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. became the first humans to land on the Moon while Command Module Pilot Michael Collins orbited above.
Apollo 11 mission launched on July 16th, 1969 and it took 4 days to reach the moon.
I’ll Give You 110-Percent!
I was listening to Leo Laporte’s The Tech Guy Show and looking at the show notes.
It says:
“Google looses search ground in June.
Google’s share of the web search market is down to 61%. What is that other 49% using?”
Let’s see. 61% + 49% = 110%
I get it, it’s just like Bender who is made of 30% iron, 40% dolomite, 40% titanium and 40% zinc, with a 0.04% nickel impurity.
OK, it’s a typo on Leo’s Show Notes. It might get fixed by now.
Name for a Wireless Network
There are a lot of funny names for Wireless Network. I saw this one and tried to get in, but I don’t know what the password is. I’m unable to join the “therearesomewhocallmetim” wireless network.
Monty Python would be proud.