Saturday, October 29th, 2011
I bought myself a TouchPad (and all of the accessories) after the fire-sale was announced from HP. I initially assumed I’d be running Android on it; but the last few weeks I’ve been using — and enjoying WebOS. I have some minor complaints; like some applications not allowing wireless printing, and sometimes no way to “go back” to where you were in an application, but for the most part WebOS is really nice. The interface is consistent between applications and the cards multi-tasking solution is snappy and a pleasure to use. The only real problem is the lack of 3rd party applications available, but that’s not surprising given that HP ended the product shortly after release. Hopefully some company picks up the WebOS assets before it’s too late (may be already…)
Oh, the TouchStone dock for TouchPad is super great too. Every tablet or phone should have something that works just like it.
I’m recently sick with my son’s illness (also my daughter and wife) and I don’t have a doctor so I used Google and selected the Dr with the best internet presence. ZoomCare was my first choice, and not too far away at the newish Bridgeport Mall.
I’m still sick so this is short and sweet.
Upside: They have a podcast, blog, online q/a, and online reservations that can be confirmed with email. Once at the doctors office you’ll find they’re a mac shop, with custom written application in FileMaker for patient management, the receptionist and doctors use iChat, and very little wait with scheduled appointments. I didn’t see any nurses, the doctor did the entire visit. They have their own pharmacy inside with the receptionist seemingly able to fill your medication.
Downside: No 24 hour advice line.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Google Maps just added contour lines to their ‘terrain’ view. View a big mountain and you’ll also get first ascent data, the route, name, and year. Very neat.
Example: Mt. McKinley
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
There are 13 Miles between my house and Tiny’s Coffee in NE Portland (Charlotte’s favorite coffee place). In those 13 miles I encountered 198 wireless access points, 82 of them using WEP, 55 using WPA and 62 with no security (presumably). Interesting that 5 of the detected access points were in ad-hoc mode, too.