I had a droid user at work come to me two times with the droid asking her to set up email accounts again. It seems to only effect the POP, IMAP, and Exchange accounts. I did some research and it appears this is being reported by many Droid users. Though when anyone calls Moto or Verizon support, one just blames the other. I hope larger voices then I pick up on this story and get one of these babies to actually fix this serious bug. Leo laporte, perhaps a iphone fanboy like Kevin Rose, or maybe even Droid lovers like Techcrunch I’m sure would love to pick up on this story. Or maybe AT&T “Droid does, delete your email.”

We got some shrimp tamales this year. They happen to be very good. For me the thing with tamales is density, and these have the right proportion. Tamales can be so hit or miss around the holidays too. The way they are wrapped can sometimes help with selection. If some one takes the time to tie each of the ends of the tamales, chances are they will taste better then ones made with a slap and fold methode.

One can say the same for this years tech offerings. Look for the software and hardware with definite quality points rather then just a bunch of hot buzz features thrown together. I just received a Canon D7 and have to say that Canon went the extra step for a quality video feature that is head and sholders over the way Nikon just threw video into its SLRs.

I just have to laugh at photographers who always have to chime in and say they only shoot in RAW. I love RAW too, but when talking with non pro photographers, I never hype it because its workflow is almost certainly not for them. The funny part is that some of those RAW only boasters probably only bulk convert their RAW images anyway, hardly taking advantage of RAW anyway.

I would never press on someone new to Mexican food, the firey taste of Los Dos Malinos in Phoenix. This New Mexicans restaurant has far too hot a spice level for a newcomer.

I’m sick of hearing the droid has a bad keyboard. It really is not a bad keyboard. The texture is good and feeback is good. Layout could be better and those with chubby thumbs will have to use the bottom of the keys on the top row, but compared to many keyboards it works very well. My only complaint is it not having auto complete like the onscreen one.

I’ve switched entirely to podcasts in the car. I use google listen on my Droid and a Jabra bluetooth speakerphone/FM transmitter to play it on my car stereo. Honestly it has changed my life, gone is mindless banter and channel wishing/hopping. I’m actually enjoying my commute time and it seems to stimulate conversations outside of my listening time with such a variety of podcast subject matter.

I’m going to be more carefull with burrieto selections, and avoid any one that includes rice. Rice is such a filler, its really just something used to make a burrieto look bigger. It brings nothing to the table in terms of taste. Many of the newer chain burrieto joints are very guilty of this.

The sky hadn’t been exiting to me in some time. I couldn’t remember the last time I just stared at the stars in wonder. Well my droid has brought me back to that, along with several tech wonders. Why? Because Android has great apps for these things and the os makes it all easy. Google’s sky maps agmented reality has made the stars interesting again, there’s a blogging app that has got me blogging often, from anywhere I want. Even email has brightened with it, now that I can do it during otherwise wasted time. Android has proven smooth and pretty painless. And yes I’m quite positive the multi task nature of the things I like to do on my droid make the iphone not an option.

Mobil mexican food is not to be under estimated. Sometimes I find great food served from trucks at various places here in phoenix, particularly at weekend farmers markets and swap meets around the city.

Avoid any and all single core cpu’s. Cpu is just not the place to skimp.

Slow LCD tvs are to be avoided too. I don’t care how insane the price is, when the best scenes in a movie turn into a pixel mush.

Cheap cameras with high pixel counts. 10mp of noise and darkness isn’t fixable with photoshop my friends.

External speakers for ipods. They all disappoint. You’re better off getting desktop computer speakers, you get real brand name stuff and a lot of sound for the money.

That’s a good start, I’ll try and add some more before the big day.
Happy turkey day all. Make turkey tacos with the leftovers.

Rubio’s is having their seasonal lobster tacos & burrito offering. Have to say they are wonderful. They’re honest that its langostino lobster meat, which in this case doesn’t really matter because it is delicious and the lobster is well represented.

These taco’s are respected webwide, here is a flickr search http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/4034749889/

e815 killer

I am very excited about the soon to be released Motorola Droid on Verizon. Do I think it will be a iPhone killer? Who cares, I just want something close on Verizon’s great network. I already know I will love it, as I love my Nokia n810 which by no means is an easy machine to work with (is anything with Linux really ever easy?). So why so excited? I only have to pull my much aged Motorola e815 out of my pocket to remind myself why. The e815 was a hackers dream phone, there were amazing things done with this phone including the rebuilding of all the features that Verizon took out (yes including the Blue tooth file transfer). Some guys even went as far as getting Java to run on the phone by pulling parts of firmware from other carriers. You see verizon could not contain the the features of the e815 they way they could most of their phones, in fact the e815 was one of the last Verizon phones to have it’s builders UI, and probably one of the most hackable phones of all time. That is until now. With the Droid being a Google Experience phone, it is untouched by Verizon’s money only judgment that has kept the e815 in my pocket until now.  I have not really seen a phone up to know that really was a replacement for it.   The first time I saw the Droids spec sheet, was the first time I have been excited about a Verizon phone since the e815. I know the Droid has all the features I want and more, but it is the cool hacks that I expect will come from this anticipated and exciting phone, that excites me.   After I get my Droid I will celebrate with Lobster Taco’s at Rubio’s.

What is the main problem with WordPress, well it’s that everything you do with it, looks like it was done in WordPress.  Even with wonderful designers coming up with ever more exotic and inventive themes, you can always tell it was done with WordPress.  I know this is an issue with all CMS’s, its just that WP technically is not a CMS it’s a Blog platform, people just try and try to use it as a CMS.  I’m not saying they don’t get good results, I’m just saying that what they get will always look like WP, and if they try and push it, it usually ends up looking like WP Being pushed outside its blogging comfort zone.

If  I had a decent following, which I don’t,  I probably would get a bunch of comments from angry WP lovers with links to a wide veriaty of sites made with WP.  Clicking on these links will bring up some wonderful examples of how far one can take WP. They will still all look like they were done with WP.  Its not something to get all in a huff about, I mean it definitly doesn’t bother the Flash site designers,  you can always tell a site done in flash.    Flash however has a coolness eyecandy appeal to it though, I think with WP the coolness and eyecandy really is fadding with its overpopularity.

Where am I going with this? I don’t exactly know right now, but I just know I definitly don’t like going to some software site and immediatly telling that they decided to make the site with WP. The sacrifices and limitations are almost always obvious.

Final word…..I think SquareSpace type things that are really designed as very easy flexible CMS’s for the mass’ need to become more prevalent,  so people stop overusing WP and using it for things they shouldn’t.  Then years from now when sites start looking different again, like they did before WP and other CMS, a super cool designer can come along and make retro templates for the latest site builder apps

The taco side of this. Please if you are opening a taco stand please, please don’t model yourself after Filibertos and especially don’t go naming it something ending in -ibertos.  Like WP made sites, its been done to death and quite frankly the results aren’t too good.

Final point: Blogs in WP are ok though, because that is what it was made for and it works well for that.