Life in Kansas, Phones, Travel
Not really sure if I should have made 3 separate posts for this or not but I’ll try and not write to poorly.
*** Life in Kansas
So far all is going well. I recently discovered I don’t really live in Kansas or Missouri. In between the two there is a really nice area called Johnson County (joco for short). Basically it’s the super nice area of both states from what I understand. I was able to determine this over time talking to people. If you spoke to someone from Kansas they would talk about people from Missouri in a certain way and another way if you were talking about someone from Johnson Country and vice versa.
So far not doing to bad making friends in the area. Actually except for a few hiccups I am doing pretty well. The job is going really well almost to good to be honest. At this time I hope that the customer decides to renew the residency program. Do not get me wrong I do believe I am helping them quite a bit with their implementation of Netbackup.
**** Phones
So I finally got out of the stone age with my phone. I am currently sporting both an iphone 3gs and Blackberry bold. I have not had them both very long at the time of this writing but I thought I would share my quick thoughts on comparing the two. The blackberry is stronger in the area of call quality and battery life while the iphone is stronger in applications and it’s screen quality.
Regarding their keyboards they are both fine I can use them both with somewhat equal accuracy. A couple of quick things about the iphone. The interface and apps are really what makes thing more preferred in my opinion. What I find ironic about this is that Apple learned this all important valuable lesson from their friend Microsoft. Historically when Windows was released it did so well because of it’s visual interface, applications and ease of use. Ease of use this is a concept that I hope Microsoft recaptures in their upcoming Windows 7 and learned from the mistake of Vista.
I actually just today got an invite for Google voice. I haven’t used it that much but after reviewing it’s features it seems awesome. No integration with the iphone right now unless you jailbreak it. I’ll probably wait a little bit since both are somewhat beta right now. As cool as Google voice seems right now I really look forward to Google Wave.
*** Travel
I’m gonna be on a boat! pretty soon
