New Toy

This has been a good month for me. First a new cell phone, and now a shiny new GPS unit for my Nikon D90 just in time for our vacation. I picked up a Solmeta Geotagger N1 off their E-Bay store and they were nice enough to throw in an extra power adapter and charging cable.

It's pretty much drop dead simple to use, is light enough to be unnoticeable, and since it has a built in battery, doesn't really change my behavior as far as using the camera goes. Since the data gets embedded into the image's EXIF data, there's no post-processing involved either. My test shot got uploaded to Picasa just fine with GPS data intact.

Time to do some real world testing...

HTC Evo

C's been complaining that I hog her phone too much whenever we're out and about so I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my trusty old Samsung clamshell to the HTC Evo. I'd been tempted to upgrade a few times in the past (particularly when the Palm Pre came out), but it never made any financial sense. I finally managed to reconcile the cost when (a) Sprint introduced a cheap(er) plan, (b) we needed to add another line and (c) there was actually a viable Android phone for Sprint.

Reviews for the Evo are all over the board, but I'm mostly loving it. Battery life isn't great, but it's good enough for me. My only complaint is the camera (for either stills or video). They may claim 8MP, but it's total crap and unreliable for anything beyond candid shots.

Everything else is just fantastic. It's fast, it runs Android, and it has a great big screen. It's big enough that I can type quickly and accurately, something I cannot do on the Nexus One.

More than anything else, it's just fun. It's been a long time since I've had the desire to do any programming that isn't work related, but the Evo and Android is certainly introducing that itch.

Baby Brown 2

I was fortunate enough to be able to fly back to NJ last weekend to meet my newest nephew, Michael Brown. He's amazing and sooo tiny. I can't believe Andrew was once this small. Congrats Jeanne and Jim! I can't wait to introduce him to Andrew.