OOooooh what does that do?!

As I lie here in bed moblogging from my wireless linux tablet that syncs to my Mac laptop and controls my Windows media server, I started thinking about the various “religeous” debates nerds sometimes get in to.Whether it be operating system or programming language, game console or cellphone, nerds are pretty opinionated when it comes to their tech.

I’ve been guilty meself, in the heat of the moment to say one thing or another sucked, but for the most part, I’m a “right tool for the job” kind of guy. I try to incorporate all resources when an opportunity presents itself.

However, I’ve noticed a trend that’s quickly becoming a problem. A lot of technology is going out of it’s way to be all things to all people. Look at cellphones for instance. The basic purpose is for the user to make phone calls. But today’s cellphones are trying to organize your life, take pictures, listen to music, watch tv, blog, read email etc. Now I’m all for multi-functionality. The swiss army knife was a great idea. But right tool for the job. Having a device that “magically” does all those things begins to have trouble performing it’s core competency, which is making calls. Do you want a computer or a phone?

I have yet to see a device that does both propefly(although I’ll admit, the iPhone comes damned close). I know what you are saying “I don’t want to carry around multiple devices around.” I can understand that but with the size of things shrinking every day, there’s no reason not to. the more moving parts a thing has, the higher likelihood that it will fail.

I could go on with this subject (and probably will in future posts) but I will some up what a good engineer friend of mine once said, “Good, fast, and cheap, pick any two, you can’t have all three”.

Right now I’m in the middle of like 5 games. Assasins Creed, Mass Effect, Warhawks, Halo 3, and of course WoW. And this Friday, Rockband comes out! I want to game but I also want to code. I’ve been doing a lot of coding for work so it’s left me like NO free time. Hopefully now that the amount of work has backed off a bit, I can get things balanced out where I have my 2 nights a week for coding on my personal projects 2 nights for work projects and one night for gaming. We’ll see if that works out in the coming weeks. I have a lot of free time during the next few days so I’m going to get my gaming fix, then this weekend maybe I’ll start working on HiveMInd again

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This is going to be my first Thanksgiving in my new house so I decided I’m going to do all the cooking. Here’s the menu:

Turkey (Duh)
Corn Chowder
Real Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Spinach
Salad
Home made bread
Stuffing
Sweet Potato Casserole
Cranberry Sauce
Green Bean Casserole
Should be pretty yummy!

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Tags: thanksgiving, food, cooking

After going to Postiecon and meeting all the great bloggers there, and after my recent foray back into twittering. I’ve been inspired to start writing again. I’m going to try to do a post every day but you’ll forgive me if I don’t manage it ;).

Where to begin,

Well right now I’m a developer for paype….er Izea. I am the core developer on the RSSBrief project and the senior developer in charge of R&D. Which basically is a corporate way of saying, I get to play with all the cool toys and try to make them break. I love the team I am working with. I’ve never met a more creative, talented, driven bunch in my entire career. These guys plainly put, kick ass. We are led by our lovable yet dorky British leader Pete, who is a veteran in his own right after publishing 14(I think…I can never remember the number and for some reason it seems to get higher) books on programming and is a pretty damned good mentor.

I live in Orlando, actually the Apopka area and am a huge themepark nut. I usually go 2 or 3 times a month to either Universal Studios or Disney. I play video games in my spare time as well as make attempts at building robotics. One of my cooler projects is my home theater which I’ll post details on later. I guess that’s it for now. I’ll try to write more later.

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