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01 Mobile Chatter - Episode 1_ Spurious Cellular Transmissions

First podcast I have been involved with in a while. After getting the cats herded and the technical difficulties sorted, Ricky Cadden from Symbian Guru and Jonathan Greene from Atmaspheric Endeavors and I sat down and talked about mobile computing.

This article is a "no duh" for me. Who would have thought something grown from the earth was better than something man-made?

Sound clip 03

The Original Nokia Tune, aka Grande Valse as it was on the Nokia 6160/6190. I used my Nokia N95 to record this as it played from my Nokia 6260, so it's not the cleanest version of the sound, but it's what I got.

The wife has found nearly a perfect house in exactly the neighborhood she wants to move to. We looked at houses in this neighborhood before, and I have to agree on the neighborhood. The houses we looked at previously were not perfect and were a little out of our price range. This one she found is also out of our price range, but it would not require much in the way of work to get the house usable.

My wife gave a verbal offer to the real estate agent that was well below the asking price, but there's a method for that: we think the house is overpriced, even for that area, and we are kind of giving the person a "safety net" of sorts. Basically telling her "if you can't get your asking price in a comfortable time, we're willing to buy it for less." Have no idea if this strategy will work, but it's worth a try.

If we get this house, and it's still a big if at this point, we will probably be able to get the loans and afford it--it's amazing the kind of loan we qualify for, but it will mean tightening the belts a little. Of course, I have yet to actually see this house, so I am jumping into this site unseen. Not the first time I've done this as the house we bought in Spokane I agreed to buy site unseen. Yes, I obviously trust my wife's judgement on these things.

I can now say I have achieved one of my personal goals–I'm now blogging for Nokia over at the See into S60 blog. Thanks to Phil Schwartzmann for giving me the opportunity. You can have a look at my first post where I introduce myself and what I hope to talk about there.

Zoe needs her day in the sun, too!

As I'm writing this, the clock has rolled past Midnight, officially making it Mothers Day.

Mothers Day isn't about my mother, whom I don't even talk to anymore, but rather my wife. Usually, we end up spending time with her parents and grandparents. Unfortunately, my wife has caught one of the worst colds I've seen her catch in a while--still obvious after a week, not to mention my daughter now has it. Needless to say, they don't want us spreading the cold to the elderly, so we will be left to our own devices for a good chunk of the day. Not sure what we will be doing since I didn't really plan anything.

Meanwhile, even though I don't talk to my mom anymore, I do occasionally wonder what she might be up to. I guess I don't really want to know, but I do know that sooner or later, as her only kid, I am going to have to clean up after her.