The phone is still great. Good pictures, etc. I highly recommend the Sony W810i, even if you don’t care about the walkman part.
T-Mobile has a few bad spots, but none so far that are important to me. On the good side, I used it with my laptop on the road this weekend, and the data access was awesome.
Trying out Flickr, Shozu, etc with the camera. Will report back on results.
A couple of weeks ago I treated myself and bought a Sony Ericsson w810i. It’s not available from carriers yet, but you can get it lots of places online. By far the best phone I’ve ever had. Great reception and sound quality, quad band + EDGE, 2M pixel camera, bluetooth modem for my Mac, and good UI.
So the question was what to do with all of that capability? I stopped in Cingular and asked what I had to add to my $60/mo phone service to use any of this.
July was an an interesting month from the point of view of (generally positive) government involvement with environmental issues that effect the computer industry.
Biggest on the list was the activation of the RoHS Directive in the EU (here’s the UK site for some more background). This put serious restrictions on the use of 6 chemicals that are known to be problematic in the waste stream (i.e. when they get thrown away).
5:30 AM this morning and I’m on my way to Logan airport for a quick trip to SF. The Ted Williams Tunnel is closed, but its 5:30am so that shouldn’t be a factor. Wrong!
Once they finished the Ted Williams Tunnel, they continued with their completion of the Big Dig, including putting I-93, which runs through the center of Boston, underground. When they did this they made it more convoluted to get into the old airport tunnels.
If you get a chance, read Greg Papadopoulos’ excellent post titled “Charting a Course from Recent Grad to ‘Citizen Engineer’". In there Greg asks “Wanna be a great engineer?” and talks about the role that engineering plays between science and society, which has always been important, but is increasingly so.
But given my role, I want to take Greg’s point a step farther. Naturally, engineers are most focused on the act of creation - ‘engineering’ is what they do.
“Allergy Battle Could Be Won In Five Years, Says Scientist”
We just returned from two great vacations back-to-back. The first was a week at my folks’ place in northern Wisconsin. Right on a lake, there’s a ton of great stuff for the kids to do, including fishing, swimming, water skiing, etc. And the parents had a great time, too.
When we got back we took advantage of Sun’s break and did a quick trip to Montauk to Pam’s folks place. Great beach weather and a great beach.
From Tim Bray’s “How We Learn” post:
_“reliable laugh line: ‘WS-* is becoming CORBA, only with angle brackets to make it slower’"_
Gosh, I always thought the angle brackets were faster, not slower. They’re so much more aerodynamic than }, ] or ).
EAI has the latest set of energy estimates for the next few decades. US oil consumption slows, but the rest of the world continues at a high pace for a total growth of 71% by 2030, despite more price increases (they’re saying 35%).
A couple of podcasts to check out:
I was at Stanford for the opening of the new Center for Computation Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), and did a podcast with Michael Johnson of Podtech. Bill McDonough, environmental design visionary and co-author of “Cradle to Cradle” stopped by Sun and visited with Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz. This is the first of a new podcast series on eco issues that we’ll be doing - let us know what you think!