I. My First iPod Accident
II. The Power of the Mouth (or the Pen/Keyboard)
III. The Future of Mobile Phones

I. My First iPod Accident

iTunes really sucks. It sucked so bad I really went into more iPodLinux research. I turned on the automatic update option and it erased all the songs I moved to the other computer. This such a bummer. Now I have to retag all the songs and add album art again (the screen looked better with the album art on). I also hate the way that iTunes refreshes when you edit the tags, it suddenly focuses itself. It’s also not that friendly to the Windows taskbar.

Okay, I saw a lot of cool features for the iPodLinux and lots of games but the core and new UI is still in beta. I’ll just wait later. I also found out that the iPod has two ARM processors. Cool! Also, the reason to making iPodLinux kicks ass (although used commonly, it still sells to me), “because we can”.

II. The Power of the Mouth (or the Pen/Keyboard)

I got this from my mail in one of the Yahoo! Groups that I’m in.

Subject: BEWARE OF CUESHÉ!!!

Mga kapatid kwento ko lang sa inyo itong nanyari sa akin nung last Saturday. Nag-back up ako for Ara Mina sa Ratsky Morato. Guest nya yung CUESHÉ. May 3-4 song number sila in the middle of our set. Para mabilis ang set up, iniwan ko na yung snare, hhats, ride at pedal ko. Eto na pasok na ang crew ng cueshe, kinalas lahat ang cymbal stands at naglagay ng sangkatutak na boom arms at multi-clamps. Ginamit pa din nya yung ride, hhats at snare ko nagdagdag lang sya ng cymbals nya. After nila tumogs, kinalas na nung crew nila yung gamit, eto yung badtrip, DI NILA BINALIK YUNG MGA KINALAS NILA BAGO SILA TUMUGTOG. Naiwan naka kalat yung mga stands nakinalas nila. Ginawa ko kinausap ko yung PA sabi ko, “Pre baka naman pwede nyo ibalik yung mga kinalas nyo”. Ok naman yung PA binalik naman nya. Mga brad di ba pag may mga tinanggal ka na gamit sa drums ng venue ikaw na magkukusa isoli sa set-up kung paano mo inabutan bago mo ilagay ang mga gamit mo. Respeto lang sa drummer na susunod sa iyo at respeto na din sa gamit ng venue. Pagtingin ko sa snare ko puro DENTS yung head. Eh bagong palit pa naman. Nilapitan ko yung drummer sabi ko, tsong bakit mo naman nilagyan ng dents yung heads ko. Bagong lagay pa lang ito sinira mo na”, sumagot sya na papalitan nya. Nagpalitan kami ng number ng road manager nila at sabi Sunday or Monday papadala nila yung replacement. Nakakainis dito di naman nya gamit yun hahatawin nya. At ako more than a year ako kung magpalit ng heads di ako nagkakadent ng heads. Again respeto lang sa gamit ng iba. Kung hindi sa iyo wag mong WARAKIN. EASY KA LANG DI BA? Galing din ako sa rock na tugtugan and I consider myself a heavy hitter din. Baka may mali sa pagpalo nya kaya nagkakadent ang heads sa kanya.

I called the road manager Monday afternoon to ask when will I get my replacement head, sagot nya dadalhin daw niya sa Ratsky ng gabi. Sabi ko sa Off the Grill ako that night. So sabi nya dun na lang daw.matatapos na yung gig ko di pa din dumating, tinext ko pero di sumagot tinawagan ko di rin sinasagot. Hanggang ngayon wala pa rin akong nakukuhang reply sa kanila. DI KO NA HAHABULIN YUN. SA KANYA NA YUNG 600 PESOS NA PAMBILI NG HEADS, basta sa akin nakatatak na KUPAL sya at yung road manager nya. Head lang yun. Baka nga bigyan ko pa sya para magpraktis sya kung paano pumalo ng tama!

Eto pa kwela, may nakausap ako na events organizer nung SMB Oktoberfest, may sinira din daw na drums yan nung Oktoberfest. Kaya ingat kayo kung makaka-alternate nyo yung drummer ng CUESHÉ, baka wasakin pa gamit nyo nyan. Kung may nakakakilala sa inyo dun sa drummer na yun paki-forward itong e-mail sa kanya. He he he he. Mga kapatid tandaan lang natin RESPETO lang sa kapwa nating drummers.

-Vinci Rodriguez

I don’t forward this kind of emails becuase I consider them junk (hey, sometimes there’s good junk). So I just posted it to keep your mailboxes clean.

III. The Future of Mobile Phones

Apache now has a port to mobile phones and Python has been on them for quite a while too. You could server dynamic server-scripted pages with a mere mobile phone now! With microprocessors getting smaller and powerful at the same time with storage costs going lower by the Megabyte and physical size as well, what will be the future use of phones?

There are many possibilities, mobile phones could soon be turned to an ultramobile computer. You could use cordless mice and keyboards via Bluetooth or RF, connect a monitor wirelessly or with a thin cable. Internet access is not a problem, most phones are GPRS/EDGE capable and newer models come out with WiFi capabilities. Don’t forget that we have wireless speakers and earphones now!

I could picture the future of mobile computing already. It will be beautiful.

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