Countdown... 4 more days...

I'm so excited... I know you guys are too. So, what happens on November 12th, you ask? The preview version of Android's SDK will be released!! OMG, I can't hold in the excitement! What the hell am I talking about? (I'm sure Jeanne is thinking I'm such a freaking geek.) Well, three days ago the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) announced their goals to develop open standards for mobile devices. This is a big deal, since the OHA is a consortium made up of about 30 members. Keep in mind, these are big names members including Motorola, LG, and, most notably, Google. (i.e., the company behind the mythical GPhone) I believe that this push will change the mobile paradigm all together. More importantly, at the same time OHA was announcing their mission, the group also unveiled Android. Android is an open source mobile phone platform based on the Linux Operating System. Let me repeat that... it's an OPEN SOURCE mobile phone platform based on the Linux Operating system. When it’s released the platform will be available under the Apache License. Do you know what this means? Anyone can write an application to run on any Android based mobile device. If we start to consider coupling existing phone features (i.e., camera/photos, gps, sms, mms, wifi capabilities) into an open source platform along with Google’s number of other applications the possibilities are endless. For example, this website claims to have leaked photos of the first wireless app for the Android OS. It’s a tool called What’s Open. And as you can probably guess, it’s a little application that tells you where places are and their operation hours within your general vicinity. So, at 2:00am, you’ll never have a problem finding that 24 hour Donut Shop with free WiFi. Here’s some cool ideas for a magic phone: Will this be the beginning of the end for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile? Or how about the iPhone? Doubtful, but we could always hope.

For Crash....

If you've every had a cat for a pet, this one should hit home.

MeToday - Nov 6 @home

You know with all the hub bub of daily life — making ends meets, running back and forth, climbing the career ladder — it's easy to overlook those things that we take for granted. When we take things for granted, we start to neglect the simple beauty that surrounds us in everyday life... we begin to focus on the what bothers us or what can't be done and continue down a slippery slope of negativity. So, my metoday is this video... it's just a reminder as to how we should approach each and every day.

Cyberspace?

I was doing some late night work and had some tv show on filling the silence with background noise. Most of the time, I ignore the noise but I heard something that made me do the double take. "The laws of our analog universe is hard to enforce in digital cyberspace." What got me was not the message of the sentence, I completely agree with the statement, it the fact that the word "CYBERSPACE" was used. Cyberspace?!? They still use that word? I thought it was retired or something. I think I first read this word back in 1988 when I picked up William Gibson's book Neuromancer. That was 19 years ago... which was a pretty exciting time for a geek like me. This was the about the time I was upgrading my 286 PC to to an i386 PC. All my games were on 5.25" floppy disk. I remember having to flip the darn thing when continuing an install. Sigh... Technically, the sentence should be re-stated as "The rules of meatspace is hard to enforce in cyberspace". If you're a geek, you'll remember meatspace. Or, Metaverse. Another blast from the the past: Does anyone remember Leisure Suit Larry?

Calling all Buckeyes!

Go to www.coachoftheyear.com and vote Jim Tressel for Coach of the Year! Go Bucks!