personal: January 2007 Archives

I finally got a new mobile phone after about 4 years. Felt like a very long time to me. I'd been on the fence about a new Blackberry, a Q, a Treo - or even waiting to see what the real buzz is about the iPhone in the summer. I pulled the trigger last week and got a new Blackberry 8700c (Thanks Tracy and Linda Witt!) primarily on the strength of the success that I saw Rich Cropp having with it about a month or so ago. After a day of fighting with it, I finally won - with fantastic help from John Kalbach last night.

I got the SyncJe client from www.nexthaus.com and Oracle Calendar is working like a champ. e-mail, SMS, etc. are also where I want them to be. The gmail client works just great on the new phone and updated OS from what I used to have. The web browser is vastly superior to what I used to have as well. I'm back in the driver's seat again in terms of being able to connect lots of tools I use to get work done.

I used e-mail, on-line forums, the ITS ET wiki, Nexthaus' helpdesk, Cingular's helpdesk, and of course google search to help improve my understanding as the day (and night) went along.

The joy of a new toy is wonderful but it overwhelmed by the joy in the victory of making the new toy a new tool - at least for me. And I got it all working just in time to enjoy Zach Braff's latest movie, "The Last Kiss".

I have always felt that there have been a few friends, colleagues, and even some family members who have thought it is a little crazy to have named a child after a baseball player. This article is the best explanation of having done that that I've read and probably will read. These kids weren't named after a baseball player, but rather a stand up citizen who does good things.