Pacificapocalypse

Random street art in Cole Valley.

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*sigh* I drank the Kool-Aid.
I had hoped that it wouldn’t come to this.

I bought an iPhone.

Here’s the deal. My old phone (a 3 year old Motorola RAZR) that was starting to show it’s age. Not holding a charge very long and problems with SMS and plain old getting calls. Court’s had the iPhone for about six months now and there have been a couple times where she hasn’t been able to reach me and from day one, she cannot get SMS texts I send her – I can receive hers, but when I respond, she never gets them and the “customer service” at AT&T has been, shall we say, less than helpful.
I knew when I upgraded to a new phone, it would be a smart phone of some variety, and after looking at all the models offered by AT&T the iPhone was the front runner.
I’ve always kind of resented Apple product and I wanted to avoid like the plague any sense of buying into the hype (There are currently 246,000 returns for “iphone douchebag” on Google.) oh sure, they look pretty, and obviously they work well, but something about the cult vibe always threw me off – go to an Apple store and… it’s so shiny.  And everyone is so… happy. It’s like Logan’s Run. Just weirds me out. Plus I’m a died in the wool old-skool PC user. But I did it. I slapped down my cash and walked out with a shiny new 12GB iPhone. After some initial dismay (what the fuck? I HAVE to use iTunes? I hate iTunes! Fuck you Apple.) and a few hiccups in configuration (what the hell? What do ya mean it won’t synce with Google Calendar?) and a little frustration on initially synching with iTunes (why the fuck is this taking so LONG!), I think I have it working reasonbly well.

Yeah yeah, the Facebook app is pretty cool, and being able to check your mail and websites on the fly is neat (and there’s even a WordPress app, neat.) but the camera function is pretty clunky and almost impossible to use with one hand.
But I’m going to give it a fair shot. They sell a hell of a lot of these things, so they must be doing something right… I mean, not everyone that bought one is a complete douchenozzle trend whore… right?

Wait… what do you  mean it doesn’t record video?
Seriously?

Fuck you Apple.

photo credit: William Hook

Backing up the database and upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1 this afternoon, may be some downtime.

EDIT: 3:25pm – we’re back up – everything seems to be working. If any one notices any thing broken, please drop me a line.

Well fuck a doodle doo. They’re actually laying people off in the business and advertising section of the once mighty San Francisco Chronicle, right this moment. They’re literally tapping people on the shoulder, telling them and then escorting them from the building.  Is this the way you let people go? So friggin’ archaic. They might as well have a Bugs Bunny cartoon executioner bare-chested in the full face mask with a head lopping axe at the ready. Holy crap. Hey I just had a thought; if they can’t tap you on the shoulder, can they still let you go? I mean if you just dodge them all day, are you cool? Que the Scooby-Doo chase scenes and the Benny Hill music.
Guess who knew first? Not me thank god; the couple that run the little in-house cafe knew it – they were here at 0 dark 30 when the extra security guards showed up.
Extra security?
Well… yeah I suppose that’s just CYA.
More later.

photo credit: ooOJasonOoo