The Insomniac Coder

This is one of them days when I REALLY HATE MY CELL PHONE CAMERA. The camera in the Blackberry Curve is about as shitty as the cameras that shipped in the first two generations of the iPhone. It is simply terrible for anything that goes beyond scanning barcodes. What's sad is that when I got my new camera I made sure that I got a microSD card for it, so I could eject it from the camera, unplug it out of the miniSD adapter, plug it into the phone and blog from the road in all the glory that the Sony DSC-TX7 can provide. Instead, out of laziness (I had the camera with me, I never leave home without it) I tried to shoot with the cell phone, with the expected crappy results. To add yet more insult to injury, I had done bulk imports into blogger and I triggered their captcha failsafe. If you post too often, it starts giving you captchas to make sure that you are a real person and not a spam bot. The problem is this won't work if you are trying to blog through email, only if you ...

Image via Wikipedia This is almost not funny. Phil phones a store that is on either side of a big road, route 9. He asks a simple question: "Are you on the north or south side of the highway ?" This is a perfectly reasonable question. If you are driving on a major highway in a metro area and you are trying to pin down one lousy store, the wrong turn can easily eat 15 more minutes of driving trying to turn around and head in the right direction. Their answer? Not only they didn't know, but they felt offended at being asked the question. And yes, the manager of the store flunked the question too. Here is where it gets pathetic: he was calling a cell phone store. You can assume that these morons: All have nice cell phones , loaded with features. One of these? GPS -driven maps. All are involved in up-selling customers into picking up optional GPS service for their phones. Are all involved in up-selling customers from their current phones into a flashy smart phone, and...