I’ve also decided to just leave pricing where it is. I think for what it does and the fact that I can’t set the wallpaper for you, it’s a fair price.

Again thanks to all who have purchased gCalWall. It’s definitely done well enough to cover a nice vacation with my lovely wife!

I just had a support email come through this morning. And while as usual I responded… this one isn’t going to work out too well.

Recipient address: –CUT—@hotmail.com
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Remote system: dns;mx2.hotmail.com (TCP|17.148.16.101|63745|65.55.37.88|25)

So, if you sent in a support request to me this morning and your name is Gregg, I’m not ignoring you. Your email address that you put in the contact form just doesn’t work.

Sorry!

I’ve been spending a lot of time today going over in my mind if the Kindle might be the right device for me and my ever growing need to read. If you’re wondering why I’m reading… when there’s 200+ pages of Core Data waiting for me to read through, 200+ pages of Core Animation, and another couple hundred pages of Obj-C 2.0 waiting for me. And all of that is sitting in eBook format.

Now, so far I’ve been OK reading a bit here and there on my MacBook. The screen is good, and the text spaces out nicely… but I can’t really take my MacBook with me to my mother-in-laws, to my parents house or to work and fit in a few pages here and there. Not to mention even if I could the MacBook is just too darned heavy and too darned valuable to lug around everywhere I go.

Which leads me to – why not just use the Kindle software on the iPhone and be happy with that? Good question. The price of the books still applies. I have full connectivity everywhere just like the Kindle. I mean, basically it is the Kindle software… on my iPhone. Well, I have it already and the iPHone screen while gorgeous just isn’t the right thing for reading a 300 page book. Its too small and really does hurt the eyes.

Anyway, I’m thinking of a Kindle. I’ve looked at a couple Sony devices – and while I really like the form factor, the lack of content in the Sony store, the prices, and the lack of connectivity is really what are keeping me from going with the prs-505.

I guess I’ll keep racking my brain to see if I can come to a conclusion. I really need a device I can take with me everywhere and squeeze in the tons of reading I have to do. But, until I’ve made a decision – maybe I can win one?

I’m going to let this video speak for itself for the most part. I plan on going over the interface you see for the HP Mini Mi in a video sometime over the next few days, so keep an eye out for that, but for now here’s a couple links:

So now I’m calling AT&T for the 4th time.

1st time I got hung up on. Why? Because I told the lady I did not want to be transferred to insurance as the phone was not dropped and this was not an insurance issue.

2nd call dropped. Shocker.

3rd call – 20 minutes long and the final person said their systems were updating and they would call me back in 30 minutes. It’s been an hour.

4th call coming up.

Business Customer Service is not fairing well today.

4Th Outcome:

photo credit: nxtiak

So apparently there are only a certain set of known keys for the Windows 7 Beta – which so far I’ve been able to confirm that these are the only ones being generated. Rather than have you waste a bunch of time trying to get a “special” key that’s just for you – here they are:

There are 14 known keys for windows 7 and here they are:
32bit
QXV7B-K78W2-QGPR6-9FWH9-KGMM7
TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC
6JKV2-QPB8H-RQ893-FW7TM-PBJ73
4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH
GG4MQ-MGK72-HVXFW-KHCRF-KW6KY

64bit
RFFTV-J6K7W-MHBQJ-XYMMJ-Q8DCH
482XP-6J9WR-4JXT3-VBPP6-FQF4M
7XRCQ-RPY28-YY9P8-R6HD8-84GH3
D9RHV-JG8XC-C77H2-3YF6D-RYRJ9
JYDV8-H8VXG-74RPT-6BJPB-X42V4

And just in case you need the 32Bit ISO…

photo credit: vgm8383

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv),has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.”

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Mike Snodgrass

Denver Hardwood

While I hope the people are ok … and I’m sure they are, one quality fail deserves another!

(via FailBlog)