Death of Voicemail

On the recommendation of a friend who said my voicemail greeting was rather dreary and the nuisance of three straight days of a collector leaving messages for someone else because of not mentioning my name in said greeting, I rerecorded it. While inserting a modicum of cheer and a basic introduction, I took the opportunity [...]

Would you rather…?

Would you rather consign your soul to Hell in exchange for the salvation of every other soul, past and present, or vice versa?

Political Apathy

Why have I cared so little about politics until the last presidential election. And now that I care, why do I feel that I have so little say about what happens? The questions, when posed side by side, seem to yield the obvious that I should have cared all along if state and local governments [...]

Life as a Rough Draft

Life is hopelessly flawed. So I won’t lament what could not have been different. I’m ok w/ the lack of perfection in this lifetime. The upside for me is a loss of inhibition that comes with the loss of fear in making mistakes. Everything we do is flawed so to not do something because we [...]

iPhone 3G S Magnetometer Limited in Maps?

While driving, I wondered if the new iPhone 3G S had to be oriented with the screen parallel to the ground for the magnetometer to work properly, like a traditional compass.  This functionality is supposed to enhance the upcoming turn-by-turn GPS apps where a phone is clamped so that the screen is perpendicular to the [...]

Change Screens with a Tap

Instead of the usual flick gesture to navigate through screens of iPhone icons, I serendipitously found out that you can tap the slivers of space just under the fourth row of icons and to the right or left of the dots.

iPhone Scripture Memory

To memorize this week’s verse, Deuteronomy 7:9, I captured it from an iPhone Bible app and set it as the wallpaper. Now I can’t help but read it tens of times a day as I check my phone for the time, calls, texts, emails, web, music, weather, calculator, etc.