Monthly Archives: December 2005

Posting through Bluetooth and My New Treo 650

With three sales tax free days, some free time to get accustomed to a new device, and a dying Treo 600, I finally bit the bullet and just bought the Treo 650. This means that I can now use my phone as a modem over Bluetooth, and I get a connection speed of around 75 kbps according to 2wire. This is phenomenal, as it means that I don’t need to find a WiFi connection for basics like e-mail, blogging, and reading blogs as long as my phone has a connection.

Even though some of that stuff can be done from the phone itself (which is totally sweet, by the way) it’s nice when available to use my PowerBook instead. It has a 1440×900 17″ wide screen and a full-sized keyboard. This is definitely not the case with the Treo.

The camera seems to be much better than on the Treo 600. It works much better in low light situations. The Treo 600 camera was basically useless unless you were outside in broad daylight.

Here’s a picture I snapped of some graffiti in New Orleans:

Someone's tagging with my name!

It seems there’s an thug artist who shares my name in the city.

As you may have inferred from the title, this post and the upload of the photo have been done using my Treo’s connection over Bluetooth. I happen to think that’s pretty cool.

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Katrina/New Orleans Guest Blogger

I was recently approached by someone I know about guest-blogging on VirtuallyShocking.com with posts regarding New Orleans’ recovery from Hurricane Katrina. His first guest post is here. Please see his disclaimers about whose views belong to whom and so on.

I had meant to post with an intro before he posted anything, but I was driving back to Louisiana from St.Louis yesterday, so it didn’t happen. So now you know — noone hacked my blog. He is a welcome guest.

I’ll have more info and posts later, but I haven’t unpacked any of my stuff yet, so it’ll have to wait till then.

Are Republicans hiding what they did post-Katrina?

[Brock has kindly allowed me to occasionally guest on his blog on the topic of New Orleans post-Katrina. My views, of course, are not Brock’s, as his comments will no doubt indicate from time to time. Kodjo]

The Republican dominated House committee investigating the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina quickly requested and received virtually everything written from the Democratic governor of the state Louisiana. This information was made public on December 2nd.[1]

In contrast, the White House is stonewalling[2] and the House committee has, to date, not pressed the issue. Similarly, little information has been supplied by the Republican governors of Alabama and Mississippi.[3]

The House committee has finally decided to subpoena the Pentagon, who “said it had lost the committee-issued request for memos, e-mail messages and other documents related to the military’s response to the worst natural disaster in U.S. history”.[4] Don’t worry. They run a good war.

[1] Bill Walsh and Laura Maggi, Blanco defends actions in storm, She releases blizzard of papers depicting her decisive, frustrated, Times-Picayune, Saturday, December 03, 2005

[2] David E. Rosenbaum, Fight in House for White House Files on Katrina, New York Times, December 8, 2005

[3] Bill Walsh, Demo wants Bush team subpoenas, He seeks a timeline of post-storm actions, Times-Picayune, Wednesday, December 14, 2005

[4] Bill Walsh, Katrina panel subpoenas Rumsfeld, Pentagon says it lost document request, The Times-Picayune, Thursday, December 14, 2005

[This spiel was originally posted on Catallaxy, where I occasionally appear as the token liberal.]

When it’s all said and done…

When it’s all said and done,
It’s real and it’s been fun,
But was it all real fun?

–Greenday

It was fun, for the most part. Most labs spend a lot of time together. Not many of them cohabitate for the better part of a semester. It could have been awful, but it was mostly rockin’. Thanks guys, and so long St.Louis. I finally saw the arch today, from afar.

I should probably write a longer post about this later. Off to bed.

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