Dear AT&T,
Instead of sending me spam email advertising your new GPS service, how about pulling your finger out and providing the MMS service that Apple have been dubiously promoting for around six months now? (“Late Summer” my arse).
The moment I can get an iPhone on Verizon, you guys are toast.
Bests,
Andrew
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No, none of these were the number I eventually chose, but I do wonder why companies such as AT&T don’t offer anything like this. (Ok, I already know – these types of company rarely innovate until forced to by threats to their market share from younger companies or changing technology).
If you haven’t checked out Google Voice yet then you definitely should, it’s very very neat.
It’s been a wee while, but then I’ve been a wee bit busy lately!
Part of that is because I’ve left behind the sun-drenched beaches of Los Angeles for the slightly chillier climate of the Bay Area – San Francisco to be precise. Despite dropping about 10 degrees in temperature (5.5 degrees, Celsius readers) I’m very much enjoying the change. It’s nice being back in a city where walking and public transport are a part of everyday life, definitely an improvement over the car-centric nature of Los Angeles. Also I’m living in the North Beach district which means I have a huuge number of bars, restaurants and shops just a few blocks away, which is fantastic for those summer weekends and evenings 
And with a change of city comes a change of job! About a month ago I started at LucasArts and so far it’s been brilliant. I’m part of a team working on something that’s fantastically exciting, but also highly highly confidential and several years away. I’ve always avoided talking about work here other than in the abstract and that’ll continue, but I do look forward to the day when I can say more
I think my car (2006 Mustang) was probably one of the last models ever not to feature some form of auxiliary input on the radio/cd player. (Four years after the iPod explosion and Ford still weren’t offering an easy in-car solution – hard to imagine why they’re having financial problems..).
For listening to iPods the only option I have are the “FM” tuner devices that broadcast a local FM signal for your radio, and for an iPhone only the types of these devices that are shielded to avoid interference.
With the closure of LA’s Indie 103, and my rapidly growing podcast backlog, I decided to pick up the Griffin RoadTrip FM for iPhone
The retail price of this device in stores like BestBuy is $99, but Amazon have it for $60 – which is a good thing because for $100 I’d have returned it. At $60 I like it enough to keep it though.
Recently I moved our Windows Media Center into a nice cool cupboard in the office, with the Xbox 360 in the living room taking over as an extender for TV/Media duties. For the most part this works very well but had one problem – our wireless network wasn’t fast enough to reliably stream HDTV.
We have a wireless bridge (two routers connected wirelessly with physical clients) between the office and living room. While Wireless-N clients can expect speeds of 70-80mbps a bridge will only see half of that. This is fine for streaming photos/music/videos/SDTV but borderline for HDTV and any interference or other wireless activity would cause the picture to breakup. Laying Ethernet isn’t an option so instead I decided to give Powerline Adapters a try.
Engineer @ LucasArts. Enthusiast of fast code and pretty UIs. Opinions my own.
