Leo-pard-icious

I went down to Cupertino this afternoon to get a briefing and demo of Leopard. And a copy.

I'm installing it now. I haven't played with the betas, but I have to say I was very very impressed. More to come.

First Day Driving

Abby got her learner's permit today. Now it's up to Jennifer and me to give her 50 hours of driving "instruction" so she can get her license.

I know it's a cliché, but they really do grow up too fast.

Ozzy

How could you not love this dog? He walked into work with me today and is sleeping right next to me as I record stuff. Awww.

One More Shot of BC Place

One more capture of roughly the same image. This time from the Panasonic SD5 HD video camera to compare it with the same picture from the N95 and iPhone in this post. I'm still working on getting some (uncompressed) video from the camera online so you can check it out.

Not Dead Yet

People seem to have misinterpreted my "dead cow" analogy and are assuming that I bricked my iPhone. Nope. I have both the original iPhone, upgraded to 1.1.1, and the unlocked iPhone still and forever at 1.0.2. I'm donating the latter to The Lab for further experimentation. I'll keep the locked phone around so I can continue to cover the platform, which was the reason I bought it in the first place. It's not for myself that I am whining, or even others I know whose phone were bricked. My point is that it's punitive for Apple to intentionally damage unlocked iPhones, and I believe that's wrong. To those who say we can't know Apple's intention, I'd respond that it would have been a simple bit of coding to checksum the modem firmware and refuse to update if it had been modified. In fact, that would have been a prudent precaution no matter what. By choosing not to do so Apple is making its intent clear, and absent any statement to the contrary from Cupertino I'm going to continue to think Apple wishes unlockers ill, no matter what Fake Steve Jobs says. To prove I still have a working iPhone, here are two pictures from my hotel window in Vancouver. One with the iPhone and one with the Nokia N95. You tell me which you prefer.

Nokia

Apple

Oh, and incidentally on the Nokia and the unlocked iPhone uploading these images in full quality to Flickr takes one click using third party apps (ShoZu on the N95 and Send Picture on the iPhone). On the locked iPhone I had to dock to my Mac, import the photo into iPhoto, export it, and then upload to Flickr. That's one of the reasons I want to be able add third-party apps to my mobile phones. Now I'm going to run to the Fatburger next door and have a veggie burger. No more dead cows for me. Good night.