Midnight Cheese Art, Design, and Technology

I was playing around with the Android SDK today and took some screenshots. There’s actually much more to play with than I was expecting. Almost all the apps in the demo video are present, including the browser and the maps application. There’s also a lot of API demos included as well. Now I just need the time to teach myself Java.

Vote for my gPhone app idea, gETLOST.

Me: “Why didn’t you shut down your laptop properly?”
M: “It wanted to install automatic updates, so I wanted to tell it to go f*ck itself and forced it to shutdown.”

Merredith bought a laptop several months ago with XP preinstalled but was eligible for a Vista upgrade DVD to come in the mail at a later date. So the DVD arrived with plenty of warning: “For Toshiba computers only.” I put the disk in my desktop machine and upon autoplay a dialog box shows up saying, “For Toshiba computers only.” Just for the heck of it I ran the setup program direct. Long story short I have Vista installed on my desktop.

Not that Vista is anything worth mentioning, but the lame attempt by Toshiba to keep people from putting that Vista upgrade on anything but Toshiba product was awesome.

Should I really have expected anything less? I mean, seriously.

This is bad because it looks like the problem is either the Flickr or Twitter Javascript that IE is getting hung-up on. That means it’s probably something not on my end, which means I’ll probably have to code something that says, “Hey, if some fool is loading this page using IE, don’t display this nice content because IE is nothing but a SAD SACK.”

I’ve been using Wakoopa for a few weeks now, and to look at how much time I’ve spent on certain applications is starting to get scary. Seven hours manipulating code in Text Wrangler is crazy. Which is nothing compared to my Safari time. And that’s only time tracked at work!

Pownce will be the Twitter killer and Leah Culver will be the next big web-celeb. And in the process they might actually help Adobe’s AIR gain some traction.

Not far from work there’s a bar called El Dos de Oros that I’ve passed by many times in the mornings. This week the Nashville Scene’s cover story is a detailed look into this place described as the only true unsegregated place in town. With men, women, and transvestites of all ages and races, I think the Scene may be right. The article is worth a read if you’re at all familiar with that part of town.