I left work slightly early tonight to visit Best Buy and an AT&T store in search of an iPad 2. Unfortunately, both were sold out. Best Buy said they might get another shipment sometime in the next few days, AT&T said they were doing reserved orders only and the backlog was already up to four… Read more
Gah, indecision. I was almost certain I was going to order an iPad 2 right on 1 AM, but now that I go to push through the motions, I find myself backing out. “Wait ’til morning, see how you feel” crosses my mind. Damn my insufferable apathy! I’m also tempted just to rock up to… Read more
So, journalling again and Xcode 4 and iOS 4.3 and iPad app development. Interesting. This is of course prompted by my burgeoning desire to do some iPad game development. I guess the urge really came into effect around New Year’s Eve, at which time I was thoroughly addicted to Game Dev Story. But I wanted… Read more
On Saturday I went to the Bridge School Benefit Concert at Shoreline with Erick and his two colleagues, Stefan and Kim. They arrived in S.F. earlier in the week on business, but of course one can’t pass up the opportunity to catch up, and to indulge in some solid touristing – only Erick of the… Read more
So I was set to phone home tonight, except I’m out of credit on Skype. No problem! With my futuristic money applying device, the Credit Card™, I can just refill my account instantly and be chatting away in no time. Except that Skype are refusing my card. In fact, all my cards. As did Blizzard,… Read more
Two weekends ago now, I finally relented to the crushing pressure of 11 million so-called peers, and installed World of Warcraft. Mainly because I’d been out the night before talking with Matt, in IHOP, and he’d described some of the more interesting sounding high-level stuff, involving big raids and PvP and vehicles, which sounded like… Read more
Two weekends ago, on Friday, I met Sam, Jenny & Tia. Sam & Jenny were over from Virginia for the two weeks, while Tia hails originally from there but now Placerville – also known as “that small town with a couple of turns in it on the way to Tahoe”. ;) Anyway, we hit it… Read more