Tsaot's Blog

Shortly I will be releasing my first commercial app on Windows Mobile. As a result, I'm moving my blog from www.tsaot.com to blog.tsaot.com and turning WWW dot into my commercial page. This is an exciting time for me as I'm finally doing something I enjoy for a living. My first app will be small and I will announce it when it is ready in the next few days.

Sadly, the move of my blog will not be a pleasant thing as Wordpress is not built for such actions.

I'm getting tired of the Kindle's UI. The Kindle 2 has been out for nearly a year now and the best the dev team has been able to give us is a list of every file on the device and a context sensitive menu. I will admit that the interface is simple and anyone can use it.

All I can seem to type recently is rant material. Maybe I need to start looking for the good in my life instead of the bad.

In any case, I'm mad a Verizon.

In the next month or two I'm going to be booted off of my dad's cellphone plan to make room for my younger siblings. I need to get my own plan as a result. I've known for months that this was coming up so I've been watching the different coverage maps, cellphone releases, and data & texting plans. What I've found is that I really need to stick with Verizon.

I just want to post an update to my Gateway troubles. They ended the discussion by telling me that as this is a Game issue, the cannot provide free customer support under warranty as it is not a Gateway hardware or software issue. So even though the laptop was advertised as a mid-range gaming rig in the store, they will not support it as such. Honestly though, this is the last Gateway/Acer laptop I buy. It has heat issues along with the enter button being mapped to the num-pad enter event instead of the normal enter key.

Dear Gateway,
My keyboard acts funny in only one kind of application. What's going on?
Dear sir,
Your laptop is under warranty but we don't know your Name, Age, Address, etc... please post them in this insecure communications forum and we'll store that information away. Also, I don't know what could cause your problem. Maybe $Jefferson$ or $Benjamin$ could jog my memory.

So yesterday, August 29, 2009, I fired off a support e-mail to to Gateway concerning how the enter key on my MD2614u behaves in games. The short story is: it doesn't.

Hey! I'm back in the game. I will be updating this blog again on a regular basis. For this event, I am releasing my favorite app: Tsaot's Twitter Reader. This application is a Twitter reader for Windows Mobile 2003 that eliminates the need for a twitter client cluttering up you desktop by putting your feed on your PDA on your desk. If you have a Windows Mobile touchscreen device and need to get rid of an extra screen on your desktop, go download it! I do admit that I have ulterior motives for releasing this program.

I recently spent quite a large sum of money for the new Amazon Kindle 2. Part of what convinced me to do so is the amount of money I would save on buying new books, something I do quite often. Alas, the Kindle is $360 (or, if you're like me, 377.98 with overnight shipping). As a result of this steep entry fee into the Kindle store, I would not actually see any savings for quite a while. If I buy enough books, I know I could start to see a savings, but again, only if I buy enough books.

How many books? Crap. This requires math. To the quick-and-easy Math Machine: Microsoft Excel!

Jared stormed into his office building. Casual greetings were either ignored or withheld if his face was seen in time. In his hand he held a printout of an e-mail he had received earlier that morning. In short, it said statements made in his Twitter account about co-workers were offensive and disciplinary actions were to take place this afternoon at two. He slammed the door open as he strode into Andrew's office.

Andrew was expecting this. He saw the anger on Jared's face and pardoned himself on the phone. Can I call you back in an hour?

Wednesday. The hold my bank placed on the student loan I deposited is lifted today. Four thousand dollars (that, theoretically, is already spent) is mine to spend. Glee surrounds me as I climb down off my bed and under it to access my computer. I turn on the screen. What greets me is delicious. The night before I had started some large video podcasts downloading, so the machine was left on all night. At midnight it began.

Tom lay on his belly and sighted down the rifle barrel. He found the position uncomfortable. He wiggled, trying to find a more comfortable position on the sandy blue pad. On either side of him were other young men on blue mats, some adjusting themselves to the new experience, others at home on the range. Shots began to ring out as he found a position that didn't bother him too much. Targets at the end of the range bled bright green as shots found their marks. Tom grabbed the lever on the bolt and swung it up and back. He grabbed a bullet from the box beside him and slid it into the barrel.