Five Golden Rings
On the fifth day of Christmas, my Verizon PR contact sent to me a Galaxy Nexus to review. We will have a complete review of the latest Nexus phone on OFB in the next few weeks. So far, I like the changes that have been made in Android 4.0. It feels more coherent than either Android 2.3 or Android 3.x.
On the fifth day of Christmas, my Verizon PR contact sent to me a Galaxy Nexus to review. We will have a complete review of the latest Nexus phone on OFB in the next few weeks. So far, I like the changes that have been made in Android 4.0. It feels more coherent than either Android 2.3 or Android 3.x.
Five Golden Rings
On the fifth day of Christmas, my Verizon PR contact sent to me a Galaxy Nexus to review. We will have a complete review of the latest Nexus phone on OFB in the next few weeks. So far, I like the changes that have been made in Android 4.0. It feels more coherent than either Android 2.3 or Android 3.x.
On the Fourth Day of Christmas...
I finally upgraded to iCloud. I hated to give up a few features being retired with MobileMe, but decided the Photo Stream and other new, iCloud-based features were too nice sounding to pass up. I'm trying to use this brief Christmas break to get all of my ducks in a row and part of that has involved me getting my photo library in better shape.
This marks the second time I have moved to a new Apple online service. I signed up for .Mac in 2004, the service that became MobileMe in 2008. So far, I think iCloud is closer to ideal than the other two, but I'd love to see some further improvements and maybe a way for other web apps to tie into iCloud. I wish iCloud had a full Dropbox like service as part of it, for example.
On the Third Day of Christmas
Today, it actually snowed for the first time this year (at least with any accumulation). We did not receive that much snow, and it melted quickly, but I was happy to see at least a bit of the white stuff out there. The last few years, St. Louis has had a white Christmas and I was becoming quite spoiled by the timing of the snow.
At least a few times a year, it is nice if there is enough snow to really be snowed in…
On the Second Day of Christmas...
…my e-mail gave to me, a bunch of papers to grade. Yes, I'm trudging through the next round of grading right now. Having turned in my students' grades back on December 12, now I am working through papers for the professor I am a teaching assistant for at Covenant. The papers are interesting for the most part, and when they are well done, they are often quite encouraging to read. Others, well, there are others.
Thankfully, I made good progress tonight and am set to have them done with plenty of time to spare.
Happy Christmas
I have never liked going to bed on Christmas day. There is a certain wonder in Christmas night and I'm never quite ready for it to end. But, that is one reason that I often have taken to this blog and urged folks to observe the 12 days of Christmas.
Even the Christian radio station — which I am still annoyed at for taking over the airwaves that were once St. Louis's classical music station — shut off the Christmas music at midnight. (There is surely some irony tied to how we play songs such as “the Twelve Days of Christmas” and “We Three Kings” but often set them aside for another year before the twelve days have passed.)
Why do we move on so quickly after Christmas? In this darkest part of the year, what can be better than celebrating the Light who came into the world? And while Advent serves that purpose to a point, the 12 days between Christmas and Epiphany offer a chance to reflect on the joyous news in a less hectic way than most of our pre-Christmas schedules permit.
So, without a further ado, on to the Second Day of Christmas…
Why the Humanities Are Necessary
Quoth T.S. Eliot:
And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.
What's Wrong With Android: Exhibit 1392
Airpush is trying to attract developers to its Android ad network. How it suggests delivering its ads is telling: the company offers advertising shortcuts app developers can place on users' home screens and also push ads that show up in users' notification trays.
Nothing like bringing that genuine Windows adware experience to the mobile world.
Calvin on Luther
If he were to call me a devil, I should still regard him an outstanding servant of God.
So quoth John Calvin, while reflecting on Luther, in a letter to Bullinger.
