Adam Burkepile

I normally love when Adam Curry or John C Dvorak mention the Pocket No Agenda on any of the shows but I will admit that I was a bit stunned when my coworker told me about the last five minutes of this latest No Agenda #170.

PLEASE allow me to explain!

The culprit here is the iTunes payment system. The system basically works like this: You get paid each FISCAL month from each REGION that is over $150 (USD). The thing that sucks is the region part, which I will go into more later. Here is the fiscal calendar:

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Cool software I found here.

I WANT A TABLET. I WANT ONE NOW.

I think this will be the year the tablet computer really takes off, one reason being the hardware is now mature enough to create a great device. Tegra2 looks very promising http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/08/ces-2010-nvidia-tegra-2-to-power-tablets-in-2010/.

The other reason being that Apple will release theirs this year, be crazy successful, and the clones will follow. But I will predict that what nobody but Apple (and maybe Google with Android) will understand is that OS UI needs to be redesigned to be, not just ‘finger-friendly’, but designed for touch-input from the start. This is why the iPhone OS feels so natural and has been a success and Windows Mobile as fallen into obscurity. In a touch interface, people do not want to manipulate windows that were designed to be clicked on with pixel-precision.
The JooJoo tablet also looked very interesting to me but I predict it will fail to have the polish that Apple tablet will surely have.

• Sean Connery
  • The Rock. Enough said.
• Danny Glover
  • Dan, you’re not to old for this shit.
• Steve Buscemi
  • This guy is just fucking insane looking.
    
• Samuel L. Jackson
  

  The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  Word.

• Jon Bon Jovi

Well, it was a long road, but my No Agenda app is finally out.

You can find it here http://bit.ly/pocketnoagenda. You can find more information about it here.

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

I’ll start off by saying that I am no reading enthusiast. During grade school, I dreaded the unavoidable book readings. I do of course read; mostly staring at a computer screen though. I have a book shelf that is filled with books; however, nearly all of them are of a technical nature or related to school. There was a period a few years ago when I got the urge to expand my horizons and attempt to read some of the classics and therefore a small portion of that book shelf is dedicated to books that I have read and now keep as some sort of trophy. I read many good books during that time, but I think I got too used to reading on a computer screen and the conveniences that come with it and so my reading slowly waned over time, perhaps as school started to take increasingly more time in my life. But I don’t think that urge to read ever really disappeared, more like a fire where the flames have shrunk but embers remain waiting for a breeze to come along a re-ignite the fire.

Well, I think the Kindle 2 might of been that cool breeze to spark the flame. So enough with the history, lets talk hardware.

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It’s seem a bit strange but I kinda fucking hate it when a movie has music that I know in it. You would think, “Hey. I know that song. I like that artist. I like that song. This is cool”. But really all it does is “pull me out of movie”. A soundtrack is suppose to enhance the experience, not distract you. I’m watching “Wanted” and I’ve heard three Nine Inch Nails songs already (within about the first 10 minutes). I love NIN and the songs that are playing but they don’t draw me into the movie. It just fucking pisses me off that I’m thinking about those songs now (and writing a post about it) instead of the movie.

Anyone with me or am I just crazy?