Intro

So for a while I've had this blogspot and have thought about starting to blog, but I've never really known what to say. I don't regularly read anyone else's blog and thus I'm not sure what the norm is, so I'll just have to wing it.

One of my inspirations for blogging came from the WordPress app on my iPhone. I didn't actually download it, just saw it was there and since I'm such a fanboy of my new toy, I like to do everything with it. So I went online and looked up blogging, found this site and then realized I'd made the blog a year and a half ago. So I can't use my iPhone to blog to it (yet, maybe that app will come along) but oh well.

The first update for the iPhone 2.0 (2.0.1) just came out a day or two ago and honestly I can't tell one bit of difference with it. Some users in various forums said that it made their Contacts come up more quickly, others said it broke all third-party apps, and others claim it sped up the back-up process (something that seems to move at a snail's pace often). However, like I said, I see no difference. Oh well. It is only a minimal security upgrade (or at least that's what the x.x.1 version name seems to denote). What I'm excited for is an eventual copy-paste feature. I don't know how long that may be, but it'll be an incredibly useful and schnazzy tool when it arrives. It's amazing how much you miss the feature once it's not there. Much of the usefulness of a computer is lost when that feature isn't present.

So far as thoughts on my iPhone go, I LOVE it. The battery life is nothing compared to my last phone (it could last days without being charge) but it's not horrific if I don't use it for anything other than a phone (i.e. no e-mail, movies, YouTube, or games). But what's the fun in that? I just make sure to charge it every evening and it's good to go. The app selection is somewhat limited (because everything has to come through Apple) but the choices are growing daily and what's there is (mostly) decent.

One app that I'm not too happy with is ReadScriptures. I use the website (iPhone formatted) fairly regularly and it'd be wonderful to have it available offline too (like when I'm in the basement of the MARB for Institute and I have no signal). However the app costs $15. Holy cow, what's with that? I got Enigmo & Crash Bandicoot Racing for $10 and those games are original content, with development costs far, far beyond anything a scripture app would have to face. I can see spending $2-3 on the program (it DID take time and talent to develope) but $15 is outrageous. I think I'll wait a month or two and hope the price drops to something reasonable. In the meantime I'll use the online version or my quad if that's not an option.