Well, the iPhone home screen experiment has taken quite a bit longer than I had thought, primarily because I am finding that my life has changed so much since I first undertook reconfiguring my home screen.1
Below is what I had settled on when I was still living in Dorchester, about 20 minutes out of the city:
Now that I live in London, however, I am finding that the apps I use most often have shifted. For instance, I have lately begun to check the weather every morning to see if it’s warm enough for me to bike to work (so far, no).
So, I’m starting over. The home screen above served me well for a while, but it’s no longer representative of the apps I use most. By this time next week, I should have a much clearer picture of the most efficient home screen for me.
Also, I accidentally upgraded my iPhone to 3.1.3 before realizing that would wipe away my jailbreak. Not sure why I felt I needed to wait until I had it restored, but I did. ↑
Really happy to be able to share a new project from friends Aaron Mahnke and Patrick Rhone, called “A Better Freelancer.” The goal is to provide ideas to help tackle problems unique to freelancers, and to suggest tips to make the freelancing life a little easier to manage.
Having seen the list of guest authors Patrick and Aaron have lined up, I can definitely say that this blog is an automatic subscribe for me.
I am contemplating creating a separate “inspiration” or “wish list” blog hosted on a subdomain of this site, however in the meantime, Needs/Wants is a collection of just about everything I can think of wanting. Beautifully designed products on a beautifully designed blog.
In other Phil C. news, he and Noah Stokes will be competing at the Happy Cog Karaoke contest at SXSW this weekend. If you’re in Austin, I strongly urge you to go and show your support!
I love supporting local artists. I try to get out to local concerts, and want to get involved in the art and photography community in London now that I live here.
One photographer I’ve recently become acquainted with is Rachel Cartwright. I really find Rachel’s work to be unique, inspiring, and at times ethereal. My favourite work by her is her self portraits, which reveal who she is in a deep and profound way. They reveal an honesty, and yet at the same time, a bit of a reservation to reveal too much.
Canadian Booksellers Association president Stephen Cribar:
To allow Amazon to enter the Canadian marketplace will detrimentally affect independent businesses and would raise serious concerns over the protection of our cultural industries.
I’m sorry, but what about what’s best for Canadian consumers? Maybe that’s why you’re in this predicament to begin with?
I can’t stand companies and industries that are constantly in self-defense mode. Give us an experience that equals Amazon’s (or, at least comes close given our country’s size) and then we can talk about keeping Amazon out. Until then, I say let them build.
I wrote a piece earlier this week, arguing that ease of use was more important to me than things like data portability. I said:
A lot of geeks like me may harp on me about things like “data portability” and having control over the software they use, and they have valid arguments. I have read people argue that the mild frustration one faces setting up and dealing with software such as WordPress is worth the effort, because then the user has “more control.”
I’m currently facing frustration right now, exactly the type of frustration that Dean Harris wrote about in his rebuttal to my post. However, my issue isn’t moving from platform to platform; my issue is moving from WordPress.com to a WordPress.org self-install.
For whatever reason, no matter how hard I try I am unable to get the new installation to import the .xml file I exported from the WordPress.com blog, it will not work. It seems very peculiar to me that the “open system” is having such a hard time moving data between itself.
I don’t write this to say that Tumblr is better at data portability. I’m simply saying that what we may think is this great, “open” system is just as frustration when it comes to controlling my own content as Tumblr’s closed system.
Update: After eight or nine tries, I finally seem to have figured this out. Not sure what the issue was, but I’ve been able to get the data ported over.
