iOS 6 / Facebook Integration presents minor concern.

I've been playing around with iOS 6 for a few days and just discovered an unusual behavior brought out with the integration of Facebook and the contact list. I've no idea if this is a behavior in previous versions of the Facebook app, as I've never bothered with the contact update feature. If you have a contact in iOS's contact book with phone number, and you tell the Facebook settings panel to update your contacts, it will match the phone number and update the contact with a picture and a name Read more [...]

3rd Gen AppleTV – The Unboxing

Well, now! FedEx just showed up a day early with a new toy! Here's a quick look and some first impressions of the recently announced AppleTV (3rd Gen). The unboxing was about as dramatic as tomato soup. Everything is exactly the same as far as packaging and setup goes. You can check out the attached pics if you're interested in such things. Even once the setup is complete, there is very little evident change, assuming you've already upgraded to, or at least seen, iOS5.1 on a 2nd generation Read more [...]

The worst day

Today will be the worst day of my life, just like yesterday was, and tomorrow will be. My head is pounding, probably from dehydration. I'll have to see to that soon, and make sure that I keep drinking water. Less coffee today would probably be a good idea. My eyes are red and swollen from crying. There's nothing I can do about that. It comes where and when it wills. My guts are in knots from the constant waves of sadness. It's overwhelming, and seems unbearable. And yet, I will bear it, because Read more [...]

The last place

This is the last place in the world I want to be. I know that if I sat down a made a list objectively, there are places that would be worse, but this isn’t about objectivity. This is personal, and right now, I cannot think of any place in the world I wouldn’t rather be. Even knowing that I must be here, I would rather be in a different circumstance anywhere else. I’m sitting on the floor in the corner of an ICU room, watching my father sleep. He’s “asleep” in the sense that there Read more [...]

SOPA/PIPA – khaosx.com blackout

I am joining my voice with Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of Twitter users in protest of the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation which is currently under discussion in the Congress of the United Sates. I believe that this legislation is harmful to the citizens of the Internet, and is not properly the business of "The People's House", as it's yet another corporate land grab sponsored by the likes of the MPAA/RIAA and old media. This is a stalling tactic to give them more time to figure out how Read more [...]