The Professor's Notes

Here is what some are believing will blow “iPhone” out of the water! The “Helio Ocean.”

From “Slash.dot”:

First things first: sod the iPhone. Yeah, you read right, forget about it. Stop saving 10-percent of your pay-packet every month, don’t sign 18 to 24 months of your life away to Cingular, think laterally, not with the crowd. Helio have just blown everyone out of the water, and ironically they’ve done it with the Ocean.

Dual-slide for both number pad and full QWERTY. 3G for screaming downloads. Two-megapixel camera with flash, GPS, full HTML browser, 2.4-inch 260k colour QVGA display, on-board stereo speakers, 200MB of internal memory and microSD for more than 2GB more, USB Mass Storage Mode with PC and Mac compatibility… I’m throwing all this out in one fat chunk because if I were to talk you through it we’d be here all day.

Well, I am looking for a new phone… but not sure I am ready to drop even $200… but who knows. If it works with Cingular…

Perhaps I am losing my mind, or perhaps time is just running a bit slower than I thought… but…

Yesterday I went to use the computer in the lecture hall, and noticed that the computer’s clock was running one hour “behind”–”odd,” I thought, “I wonder why this computer didn’t automatically update?” Then I saw my desktop at work had the wrong date as well. “Odd,” I thought. “Did the University fail to push the updates?”

Well, today, I realized that my personal computers–those that had most, if not all, of the updates, were no longer reading the correct “Savings Time” time. While I could really use the additional time, it has me wondering if Microsoft’s patch was just a bit “buggy.”

Did the computers somehow reset themselves the following Sunday back to Standard Time? (Full disclosure–I may have missed a patch somewhere, or not paid attention myself)

Okay, so this is about as frivolous as they come. I was testing out the new technology that lets me record “real” phone conversations, and, well, here’s the result.

We talk about iPhone and various audio equipment “stuff.”

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