jonandnic dot com | 2007 September

Wake Me Up When September Ends

I’m sick again. Same thing as last time — which wasn’t even 2 months ago. Feels like there’s a tear up my throat all the way over to my right ear. I went to the doctor, and guess what they gave me? Lortabs.
Lortabs are a serious narcotic, but I swear every time I go to [...]

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Time for a Branch?

So Apple’s update is in the wild, and its become clear that they’re forcing a choice — at least for the time being. Either you run the latest and greatest, but disappointingly useless Apple firmware v.1.1.1, or you use what the community has to offer based on 1.0.2. Here’s a nice chart that might make [...]

Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Dream October

I love to travel. Its one of the things I enjoy most in life. You might not think it if you’ve ever been in an airport with me — I may appear to be very stressed or pressured, but neither would be true. I really just have my game face on. Travelling is not something [...]

Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Not Gonna Update

I’m not updating my iPhone to 1.1.1 until it gets hacked. A quick feature comparison shows that the 3rd party community’s software is much cooler than anything Apple released today.
In fact, the only truly compelling feature in this much-anticipated update is the ability to turn off GPRS while roaming. But I won’t be roaming any [...]

Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Benjamin Update

Lately Ben has been getting up earlier in the morning. This isn’t so great for mom or dad, but you’d never know it from talking to him. He loves waking up in the morning! He’ll usually play by himself in his crib, and work on a bottle for a half hour or so, but after [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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How I want to design software

…provided by Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger [and] more complex… It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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This is how you get old

One day you realise your feet feel better if you wear slippers while at home. Shortly after that, your wife decides that wearing an apron while doing house work is a sensible idea. Then before you know it, you’ve become your parents…

Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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With a heavy sigh of relief…

Part 2 of my increasingly long project is handed off to QA. 3 months of bug fixes, here we come! It’s OK though, cause I’m finally going to be allowed to travel to meet the people I work with…

Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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The only thing cooler than an iPhone…

…Is a hacked iPhone!
So, as promised, I ran the AppTap installer last night and unshackled my iPhone. The whole process was dead simple — so simple, in fact, that I think Apple might secretly not mind at all that its going on. It might be part of their strategy to let third parties experiment, without [...]

Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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