Just in case someone is following this blog, but not the one for the family, all of my journal for my trip to italy is posted there, graffagnino.net. I'm also posting updates on twitter (link at top of this page), and discussing on facebook.

Ciao!

Labels: travel

posted by Frankie @ 12:42 PM   0 Comments

24 songs. 1.9 million dollars. Wake up folks.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jammie-thomas-retrial-verdict.ars

wow... just... wow.

Labels: depressing, government, horrible business, mad

posted by Frankie @ 10:49 PM   0 Comments

Neo has been wanting a cell phone. Mom and Dad are not ready for him to be walking around with a cell phone just yet.

But what is a geeky dad to do when he gets this sort of request? I decided to use a VoIP phone solution with a Gizmo account and a fun way to show when he had messages waiting. I wrote about my solution in this project page.

Labels: happy, house, phone, voip

posted by Frankie @ 2:56 PM   0 Comments

Got my updated firmware for my T-Mobile G1 phone yesterday. This is the infamous "Cupcake" version of the software.

I'm really happy about most of the fixed. Many of the new features are awesome, and many of the annoyances have been fixed. I like the way they fixed the issue of keeping the dialpad open during phone calls where you need to hit buttons to get through menus.

Phone orientation detection, virtual keyboard, updates to the browser, gmail, calendar, etc... they're all awesome! Although, I still can't believe that all of this work went into such an awesome phone and such awesome software, and there is still no way to alert someone that they missed a call. How this phone has went through multiple revisions of software without the capability to beep after a call was missed is beyond me.

But that really is the only main thing that annoys me. Everything else is great. I'm so glad I have a G1 and not an iphone. I'm really tired of the great development that Apple does overshadowing all the evil crap they get away with. Android... open, free, and awesome.

Labels: Android, electronics, Google, happy, phone, products, programming

posted by Frankie @ 7:03 PM   0 Comments

The amount of power some companies have is downright disturbing. You guys know how I feel about net neutrality. A good clip to watch:

Labels: government, mad, net neutrality, politics

posted by Frankie @ 8:27 PM   0 Comments

My you-tube video of Charlie's first steps just got disabled due to copyright infringement (the video has a 30 second clip of Fats Domino's "I'm Walking").

I took the time to send in a dispute citing the four factors of fair use, so we'll see what happens. In my comments I told them I was pretty sure Fats Domino would have no issue with it.

I'm pretty sick of the RIAA running the world.

Labels: depressing, government, mad

posted by Frankie @ 7:48 AM   1 Comments

Starting another camping trip this weekend... hope the weather gets better. It is supposed to get really cold... and right now the wind is really bad!

posted by Frankie @ 10:52 PM   0 Comments