Why I need to blog more!

There was an article on Techcrunch a while back where one of the authors detailed his plans to lock down his social networks.  There is too much noise!  Of course like most Techcrunch articles it looked like he was just doing it for attention.  Which is in some ways true. He makes more money if more people read articles he's written.

I decided to just ignore his article and move on with my life.  I ignore a lot of crazy Techcrunch articles so it's not like it would be abnormal for me to ignore another one. There is a certain blogger who I ALWAYS ignore. I didn't think I would even think about that article again until He posted the follow up where he compared quitting Twitter/Social networking to Leo Laporte's post about quitting Google Buzz.

I follow Leo only Twitter, Google Buzz, Facebook and I didn't notice he wasn't posting any updates! Surely if no one noticed that he wasn't updating, that means no one ever noticed anything I posted! Why do I waste my time tweeting?

Instead I shall write this blog.  It might not be the best blog out there. (The writing sucks, I'm a boring person and quite frequently I don't write blog posts as fully as I really should)

iPhone 4

or should we call it the iPhone 3GSS (note the additional S ?)

With all the interesting Android handsets that have been coming out lately, I was expecting Apple to announce an exciting new version of the iPhone.  This exciting new version of the iPhone would make all other cellphones looks mediocre or crappy.   What Apple showed off on the 7th at WWDC was not that phone I was expecting. Perhaps my expectations were so high that it would have been impossible for anything to meet those standards.

The first new feature of the iPhone 4 is it's new display.  The resolution is 960x640   This is a HUGE resolution.  Unfortunately it's in the same 3.5" area as the original iPhone.  All those extra pixels give the phone a much higher DPI than the 3gs (326 to be precise)  Apple claims that the dpi is higher than what the human eye has.  This is of course all fake marketing speak.

326 DPI is very, but do we really need such a high DPI?  My Motorola Milestone has a much lower DPI and yet text on it looks perfectly fine.  I can't see a single pixel.  I found somewhere online that the Milestone has a DPI of 200 something.  Does that 120 extra DPI really make much of a visible difference?

I think those pixels could have been put to better use for something like making the screen wider.  I'm not entirely certain, but I believe the new iPhone has a aspect ratio similar to the old iPhone.  It would be nicer to have more pixels.

Aside from those small problems.  The iPhone 4 has a very nice display.  However, it hardly makes me want to drop whatever phone I'm using right now and buy a new one.

The second major new feature of the iPhone 4 is the front facing camera.  Front facing cameras are however not anything new at all.  Why does anyone care?

Everything else seems like a minor incremental upgrade.  I might write a little bit more about the iPhone in another post.

Vaction!

Due to a combination of laziness and a on account of me being on vaction, I have been to lazy to post.

So for the time being read this post on some other random blog that I happen to read.

Kylie Rocks!

Links!

I always find tons of interesting links.  I figured I post them.

I used to post all my links on Facebook, since that's where everyone is, but why should I give all my posts to Facebook?  Why not just post all that content myself?  So here we go, most links will go here.

• One of my friends on Google Reader posted a link to this water bottle.  I think it's pretty awesome.  Hopefully I'll see it out west somewhere
• I hope that one day I'll be bold enough to delete my facebook account just like Leo Laporte did live on the air.
• There is a project to make an Open Source version of Facebook.  It's called diaspora and it's coded in Ruby.  I can't wait for it to be released.
• Google TV is pretty awesome!  I could go on a huge rant about why this is such an awesome Idea.
• This article about gaming lies made into propaganda posters is interesting.  I think it could have been a little bit more funny though

That's all I have for now.  A bit of a slow start, but It's been a while since I've really posted any content.  I need to learn how to get back into the habit.

What this blog is for

All of the readers of my blog might be asking, "What exactly is this blog for?" 

Unfortunately, I had a long list prepared on a piece of paper a couple days ago.  I have the list beside me and most of the ideas on it are really silly or lame.  Instead of writing something really lame or awful I'll make it really simple.  I started this blog because it's fun.  I come across a ton of interesting links every day and I think it would be interesting to post those links for everyone else to read.  In the past I've used Facebook to share links.  However I've been finding that a lot of my links never show up in anyone's feed.  It probably has to do with the ways that Facebook prevents spam.  My links are not spam!! They're interesting.  Now I will post all my links here.   I can always direct people on Facebook to my blog and they can view all the links I used to post.

Sometimes I have interesting ideas or odd things I want to say.  I used to just text them to random people.  I came to the conclusion that I text enough random nonsequitors that I could probably fill an entire blog with that content.  (Hence this blog)

The third reason for blogging is that I think it's a lot of fun.  (and really isn't this the most important reason to do anything?)

For those who didn't believe me

I have posted below a cute animal picture.  A cat picture must be posted within 24 hours of a blog going online.  I originally read this in Scalzi's whatever blog. (However I can't find the post where I read it)

Picture is originally from Cute Overload. (Click the picture to find the exact story)

New posts!!

All of the regular readers of this blog might have noticed that I haven't posted in a very long time. I think it's time for me to start posting a little bit more regularly!