• I Lied

    April 6, 2010 / No Comments

    So I said I was going to wait on getting an iPad. Well…I waited 48 hours, and that was only because Best Buy was closed on Easter. Seeing all the cool reviews made it too hard to resist. I have been wanting an ebook reader since the Kindle came out, but the Kindle is only a one-trick-pony. With the iPad I get an ebook reader plus much more.

    It’s a great bedroom and couch computer. I can surf the web, read my RSS feeds, play games, or even watch streaming Netflix movies. It’s much easier to use than my laptops in those situations.

    I haven’t spend a lot of time reading on it yet. I will be taking it to work tonight and see how my eyes handle reading on it. I am pretty sure it wont be a problem. The screen is beautiful and my eye don’t ever really get sore reading anything else.

    Some people are saying their iPad is taking the place of their laptops. I don’t see that for me. It might get me off my computer a little more, but it’s not replacing my laptop at all.

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  • iPad

    April 2, 2010 / No Comments

    I am really getting tempted to get an iPad, but I still think I am going to fight the urge and wait for version 2. Today Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing, showed off The Elements app. It is based on the book The Elements, by Theodore Gray. I got the book for Christmas, and it’s gorgeous. The iPad app looks even better and brings it to life. You can even look up more info on Wolfram Alpha.

    This really could be a great device for books and magazines. I can’t wait to see all the great content to come out for this device. We will see if I can fight the urge, but you know version 2 will be cheaper and better.

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  • My Blogging History

    March 29, 2010 / No Comments

    I have been blogging off and on, but mostly on, for almost 10 years now. I started shortly after we got broadband in July of 2000. I however was not good at preserving my archives. I switched from so many services and really didn’t care to bring along my old posts. Sometimes I wish I could read them, but part of me is kinda glad I can’t.

    In 2000 I started with Blogger. It was simple and easy, but bugged me because it didn’t have commenting at that time. From there I went to a free host (they were plentiful before the dot-com bubble burst), and used desktop software to manage my blog. That worked for a while, but wasn’t ideal, so then I finally broke down and paid for hosting.

    The first blogging software that I used was Greymatter. I used it for a while, but then everybody seemed to be using Movable Type, so I switched. I was probably on Movable Type longer than other the other services before combined. Then in 2004 TypePad started placing greater restrictions on its use without paying for it, so I switched to WordPress, and have been on WordPress ever since. A couple different domains, and hosts, and here I am, still tinkering around on the net, hence the name tinkr.net.

    When I first started blogging it seemed like you could read almost every blog out there. I felt like I knew the people behind the blogs I read. I was never good at leaving comments though, so a lot of them never knew much about me. Back then I would also blog about a lot more personal stuff. Nowadays, I feel my life is pretty boring. I blog when I have something to say, like this monster post, but for the most part I just post stuff that I find cool on the interwebs.

    Many of my favorite blogger have dropped off the face of the internet. Some of them I have found on Twitter, but it seems like Twitter is keeping a lot of people away from their blog. I think I will always have a blog, but probably won’t always be blogging. I don’t ever want to drop on the face on the internet. I want a little place to call my own where someone can always find me at.

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