This is pretty cool. If any of you android users have Wordpress blogs that either you run or help manage you really need to check this out. You can get it for free from the android market.

It gives you the tools to add posts, manage items like posts and pages and even moderate comments. I think I will enjoy using this as time goes by.

And FYI: I am posting this from the android client too

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wordpress… the list can go on and on. Do I update this page so these people can see it or should I update that one so those people do. What a pain. I am trying to get all my pages linked together so I can update one and all my pages are notified.

So far I have found that Facebook and Twitter work well together. It is easy to update your Twitter account and have that update your Facebook status as well… But say I want to write a blog post like this one and still let my Facebook friends know or my followers on Twitter know… Now it starts to get complicated.

I wish there were one site you could go to, subscribe to, update and notify all the other sites. I am trying to do that through my blog page but all the plugins can get confusing. If I find a solid solution, I’ll let you know.

Not sure how it happened. Maybe I wasn’t looking. I don’t know how or when but suddenly I realize I have been googleized.

I guess it all started when I was watching the release of the G1 phone, the first phone to be released with Google’s Android operating system. I thought, hmmm, the concept is nice, but what business does a search engine company have making a mobile device OS. I figure it may take off, who knows, right? I was surprised by the amount of hype surrounding its release.

Then a few months ago I saw what the mobile device manufacturer HTC had done with their release of the HTC Hero and I thought, Wow! That Looks sweet! So I decided to follow it a bit closer. I was very pleased to see that my carrier, Sprint, was getting this device and I started to wonder if I might switch from being a long time windows mobile user.

So I guess to make a long story short, I am now the proud owner of a Sprint Hero. And in my humble opinion, THIS PHONE ROCKS!!!

I have been a supporter of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile since it was a litte bit of code called Windows CE.  Since then it has grown and matured into one of the most widely used mobile operating systems for PDA’s and smart phones. Then came the Apple iPhone. And all of a sudden it was common to have a phone that did more than just keep track of your phonebook and make phone calls even though those of use using windows mobile had been doing that for over a decade.

Now there is a newer contender in the ring and it looks like Microsoft is going to have to really step up and make some major changes if they want to be able to compete.  Google released their Android OS a little over a year ago, and now with the help of HTC, one of the most prominent smart phone designers, they are quickly taking advantage of Microsoft’s apparent lack of progress in the user interface department. Take a look below:

Well, it seems that people viewing our website are getting more of a taste of our family than we can put into words. They are getting insight into the struggles of a family with an 18 year old boy who has way too much time on his hands to be able to express his desire to take over the world.

Just to clear the record, when you receive a post from me on this site, it is either something that has caught my eye that I wanted to share with you, or it is something I am experiencing or feeling that I share. So that being the case, yes, I do use “I” a lot which references something coming from me. It is obvious that the post is coming from me as a personal perspective, and so I don’t have to keep writing “Jim said…” or “Jim thought…” the “I” will simply do its job.

Also, while I am at it. Have you ever noticed that I don’t sign a post? Why should I, the author is listed under the title of the post, and yes, it is in “lower case” (because that’s how the internet was designed) and having it there is enough for me. So to the “so called” ruler of the world, why do you feel it is necessary to sign your posts “Supreme Chancellor Jimmy”? If you truly were a supreme chancellor, would you have to keep reminding us? I love you little boy, but you are a goofy sort.

Well, thanks for joining us in this little educational moment.  I had fun, hope you did too…

I recently got a hand-me-down laptop from my wife for me to use while on the truck. It is an HP Pavilion dv9408nr. It is a nice enough laptop, it has a 17″ widescreen monitor, I upgraded to 2GB RAM, the 160GB drive is a little small for me but it does have a second bay for an additional SATA drive so I will probable make use of that.  One problem I have had is that it has a built in nvidia graphics card but video performance has always seemed to, well suck. The laptop came with Windows Vista Home Premium (I know, problem number 1).  As an OS, I like Vista, for the most part.  Although I have used Windows 7 and am very much looking forward to its release.  I have tried Vista Ultimate with a clean install, but still the performance just isn’t that great. I have always attributed the slow laptop to the fact that it has an AMD processor (I am so very much an intel man).

Finally, I got curious and decided to install a linux distro on it to see if I could do anything better. To my suprise, with a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 8.10, this thing ROCKS!!!  Graphic performance is very good, the programs all run quickly, and with wine I can still install some of my favorite Windows app, and for those that don’t I can run Windows in a VirtualBox on top of linux and even run them seamlessly together with the linux bar across the top of the screen, the start bar along the bottom and windows of both OS’s in between.

All in all, I have to say I am impressed, and there seems to be a free, open source app to replace almost everything we do with expensive apps in Windows…  I guess we’ll see where this leads.

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