The greatest of examples: iPhone

It's offical as of today: I think the iPhone is great.

As an example.

For example, do you think a product must be good if it has a huge fan base? Well think again - the iPhone is a great example of a mobile that's all hype, no action. Well, some action obviously, but SOTA cutting edge technology? I doesn't even do UMTS yet, and without UMTS, no HSPA. I haven't had a chance to try one yet, but the mobile browsing experience can't be SOTA, and that's that.

So, how about people being willing to invest time and energy to prove something can be hacked? Well, the iPhone had it's jailbreaks... time and again... and they happened bloody quickly for the most part. Which technically proves that the product is mediocre at best from a technical security point of view.

Why am I noting this`? Because there's no escaping the iPhone hype and I had to deal with that one professionally. And it proved a great example of how all the hype, all the fan club and all the tech geeks hacking just don't prove it's actually a good product from a technical pov.

Thus, as far as I'm concerned, hype, fan club and hackers don't prove that for any other product, either. They haven't for, say... Safari... okay, this is turning into Apple bashing, so... err... Windows. Okay, I'm not sure that actually has fan clubs these days (eat your heart out, Billie boy!). Ah well, you get the idea.

So, product in question: Roomba. That robo-vac has a nice littly fan club, but tech geeky gadgets always do, so that proves diddly squat. My SO says there's books on hacking it on Amazon, which technically just proves it can be hacked. So I tell my SO, there there, look at the iPhone... fan clubs and hacks don't actually prove anything.

And for only the second time, I'm really happy the iPhone exists (the first time was finding that the term iPhone is almost a guarantee for hits within the context of a headline... but that's another story).

P.S. I may have labelled this "iPhone, Emperor Microsoft, Vacuum Cleaners", but I only now notice the implications. All I'll say regarding that is Adam Copeland, because that should completely confuse the hell out of pretty much anyone.

Some semblance of internet

Yay, some semblance of internet at last. HSDPA may not be a prime choice for anyone looking to download complete bizzare shit hentai anime movies (or Disney ones, for that matter), but it is good enough for blogging.

Now all I need is some semblance of inspiration, such as... uh... bizarre shit hentai anime... no. Disney... uh... they're going to be doing 3D animated movies next year. Or was it this? And what exactly do I care?

That reminds me, the Witchblade anime isn't half bad. Not exactly hentai, granted, but reasonably bizzare shit. Of course, ignorant as I am of what passes for culture in japan, I am inclined to believe "reasonably bizzare shit" might be what "anime" means. (Okay, so I don't watch the ones aimed at pre-teen girls much [i.e., at all], so here's seriously hoping those would prove me wrong.)

What comes to mind is that after a month of no derangement (at least none made available to the general, not giving a shit about it public), I really should announce my being back in business with some sort of cool line.

"I'm back, and I'm back on crack."

Err, no. But I guess I did watch too much TNT back in the glory days of the Monday Night Wars. Not that I expect anyone who actually reads this to really know what in hell I'm going on about.

No, it's not MMA.

Yes, it has something to do with wrestling.

I guess Holly's racer gimmick would qualify as... and the West Texas Rednecks did sing about... still, cars don't really have anything to do with it.

Definitely not MMA.

(Does it show one of my two regular readers is interactively contributing here?)

The Monday Night Wars were not "some sort of wrestling event", no.

They weren't "a wrestling event", either.

Not really, but the degree of my boredom or notsoboredom is of no consequence to the Monday Night Wars any more today than it was when the Fingerpoke of Doom happened.

(Tell me, how bad is getting a transcript of half a conversation?)

Quit critizing my (lack of) spelling and get back to the Monday Night Wars (yes, technically, that would require Wells to give you the blueprints for that time machine).

Looks like she's at a loss for words (I don't get that very often)... but that's okay. I guess she didn't follow Nitro back in WCWs heyday. (Or the period when Russo did to it what he is now trying to do to TNA, either.)

Yes, Russo did Nitro before WCW folded. They called him in to run the ship aground.

Enough. I have some semblance of internet. It may not be good enough for foll bizzare shit hentai anime movies, but there must be some sort of...

wrestling...

available.