The weekend was really uneventful and that is what I was expecting. I did manage to accomplish a couple of things I had been meaning to do for a while anyway. Renewing the domain/hosting plan for another domain name of mine, for instance. It was the day before it expired actually. Really waited for the last moment on that one. I was thinking about moving this blog over to that site at some point. Or moving this blog to the free WP service. I don’t care which. It just doesn’t seem worth it some how to keep the expense of this domain/hosting, even if it does come out to $5 or so a month, when I don’t really go beyond the real basics of it.
But where was I? Right, the weekend. Uneventful save for accomplishing one or two things I should have done a while ago. I also bought yet another case for my new Android phone. So that’s like three cases I already bought for it. I had it since the 9th or so and I’ve owned how many cases? I did return the rather worthless one back to wal-mart. So I’m glad I did that both because I didn’t need it and because I didn’t put it off until I forgot about it or whatever like I sometimes do.
I could have gotten a lot more productive but at some point I decided if i was going to waste time on the weekend I could at least do something half fun. So I played a little of a quite old game called Thief. Played that for one or two hours and I was actually having a pretty good time. At least until I had to leave.
Speaking of the new phone, I have been having some serious buyer’s remorse lately about this phone. I mean $80 a month? Really? How about this: let me sign up for a “light user’s” plan for say $10 or $15 a month with a limit of 100 or 200 megs then have a next level up like 1000 megs and then the $30 for “unlimited”. If I go past the 100 or whatever megs then I am notified by text message by the way, you went over so you’ll be charged $20. And the same if I go past that limit: you’ve been auto-upgraded to the $30 unlimited plan. Please consider switching. This way the light users can pay less and there’s no need to worry about people complaining about unwittingly getting $10,000 cell bill in the mail because they didn’t know what “three cents per byte” means. Is there some reason this can’t be implemented? Some real reason this can’t be done?
Okay so I did do some other experiments: here’s what I wanted to happen. Create an calendar appointment or whatever you want to call it with Rainlendar and then have it sync to Google calendar which auto-syncs to my phone. And actually an appointment made at any of those three places results in it auto-synced to the other two. That was the goal. I had all my appointments/events set up perfectly happy with Rainlendar’s “ToDo” feature. Then I found out I can’t sync Google calendars to those events. I mean the screens for a new To Do and a new “Event” are nearly identical. Why I can’t covert between them or sync them anyway I have no idea. So after wasting hours searching for a solution I finally just made a new Rainlander calendar tied to a google calendar and started doing “events” and converting over some of my To Dos. The main problem I have is that when an Event isn’t an all day thing Rainlendar doesn’t list the actual title of it but merely the time range. It’s kind of annoying since I’d like to know what the event is as opposed to merely the day and time of some mystery event. I did eventually figure out I could adjust how long into the future rainlander display events. It was 6 days by default. 360 days seemed too much. So I’ve now settled on two weeks. Seems like a good balance some how.
I did hear about a couple of funny videos. Here, I will embed them for your convenience:
First Evo Vs. iPhone
Then iPhone vs. Evo