Thanks to Jim, there is over a dozen of us from work at the Gopher’s game tonight. Always a good time!
The Gopher’s have been struggling lately but managed to pull away with a win. It was a special night at the “Barn” as Trent Tucker’s jersey was retired. It was fun to see as he has been a great Minnesota Basketball icon.
I picked this accessory up last week as over the Christmas break with my 360 being dead I was putting in a lot of time on my PS3 (SOCOM, Warhawk, LBP and Pacific Rift). With the lack of being able to use voice chat with friends from the XMB while in game and people sending me messages asking which game I was in, etc I found quickly that a keyboard would save A LOT time.
Anyhow, it’s nice to be able to rattle off messages quickly and the web browsing is much more desirable when going to non-bookmarked addresses. The cursor mode is really pretty cool, the keyboard becomes a touchpad like a laptop which again while browsing is pretty slick!
The only drawbacks are the price of $50 and the lack of backlighting on the keyboard that my XBOX Live! Messenger has.
This keypad can also be trained up with other devices as a keyboard. Hmm, I should try with my Touch Pro but I really don’t know what good that would be except for geeking out 🙂
I looked at my phone to check my email and saw these numbers not realizing how cold it really is!
Look at the top row which represents the rest of the week here. Yikes!
Thanks to Justin for pointing me to this…
SOB!!! I have an open TV stand so my 360 is ventilated and I don’t have any extra cooling fans that some suggest cause problems. This will be my forth bad 360. In the last year I have put at least double the time on my PS3 just gaming and not to mention my MANY hours of running the Folding application on my PS3 and have had NO problems on that system that sits right next to my 360. Carolyn was watching a movie tonight and we got the checkered screen. I kept getting the locked up checkered screen and finally it came, the RROD. I am on the phone with XBOX support right now and am going through the motions. “The process will take 2-3 weeks. I said that this is about the worst time of year for this to happen with Christmas a week away and she can’t offer anything except for a WHOLE month of XBOX Live Gold. Wahoo!
Well, here is is… our first converted plane. As I understand it this is Delta’s first 747 for over 20 years so that’s pretty cool!
Thanks to Justin for the pictures (http://edwards-familyweb.net/blog/northwest-airlines-aircraft-in-delta-air-lines-colors)
Sony releases the Home public beta and I’m getting an error on my first attempt. Last night it worked just fine and as usual with Sony they probably weren’t setup to handle the load.
They have a horrible track record online when it comes to game releases and stability. This goes way back to SOCOM on the PS2 and has plagued the PS3 online experience with WarHawk, LBP, SOCOM 3 and others.
I have complained about this on the Sony forums and the fanboys always get defensive and suggest to “give it a couple of weeks to get better”. SOCOM 3 was dying with 20,000 concurrent users and Sony was almost bragging about it because there were so many people online 🙂 I remember the Halo 3 launch, as we stood in line for the midnight release the east coast was getting home and starting to play. There were a million users on before midnight CST and Live had minor problems with matchmaking.
I know this is a beta and I am supposed to be forgiving but come on Sony! Get on it and move to a Live like model. This Christmas I have recommended 360’s to anyone who likes to play online because you can’t get it together.
After using Treo’s for years and most recently an 800w for about six month and dealing with it’s numberous problems I decided on a change. I decided on the Touch Pro. I will admit, it was a transition from my front facing keyboard that I’ve had for years. After two days I went back to the 800w and then a couple days later moved back to the Touch Pro and haven’t looked back.
I’ve had HTC devices before at work and always liked the quality of them, the parts and the phone are pretty darn nice! The small things like having the stylus pulled out waking up the device is a great feature.
One frustration that I HAD was that I was answering the phone a lot in my pocket. I used a great little app called “slide to unlock” (info here). The communities on xda-developers and PPCgeeks have been great. I have used a couple of hacks from there including disabling the SMS Sent notification and enabling the capability of forcing the phone to roam which is very handy when at the cabin.
The screen on this device is amazing!! I feel that I can take advantage of so much more software with the extra real estate. I have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, EV-DO Rev A, etc. I can run Skype over Wi-Fi or EV-DO without issue, my Slingbox runs great and the YouTube client is fun. I don’t us my phones as a MP3 player but streaming XM with C-ApiSRO which works on both Sirius and XM.
When it came down to waiting for the Treo Pro and hoping that it would fix the problems of the 800w I decided not to wait for such a little ‘upgrade’ if it could even be considered and upgrade. Feature for feature on the 800w vs the Treo Pro is pretty much a wash. I’ve gained so much more with the Touch Pro!!
