Mobility
This blog is brought to you, live and direct, from my new Nokia N900 smartphone. My bony backside posted on the dusty red front stoop of my home, an "app" (in my day we just called it "software") called MaStory providing the gunsight for these ballistic syllables as I freestyle phonics directly from me to you.
Some don't get why a phone so powerful was needed. This morning while my infant daughter slept snugly strapped to my torso, I installed a Debian Linux package so I could rum a full featured word processor called OpenOffice, giving me full compatibility with those helplessly trapped on Massa Gates' plantation without letting actual software from Redmond into my life. Open source and as free as a Black man can hope to be in the western world, I now enjoy 40 gigabytes of digital domination on my left hip, from mp3s transmitted on an FM radio band to cropping photos and removing red eye.
The reasons why are myriad and mystifying. With two kids, breaking out the MacBook Pro is often logistically challenging and 181 grams is easier to carry and store than 5.9 pounds. As a journalist (of sorts) the concept of shooting 5 megapixel photos, editing them live and posting them with accompanying explication is an intoxicating whiff of the ultimate scoop. Again, it comes down to freedom, the ability to do where before "doing" took some ... well, doing.
So maybe more blogs, yes? Let's see what happens.
Watching (kids): playing with dogs and scooters in familiar driveways
Some don't get why a phone so powerful was needed. This morning while my infant daughter slept snugly strapped to my torso, I installed a Debian Linux package so I could rum a full featured word processor called OpenOffice, giving me full compatibility with those helplessly trapped on Massa Gates' plantation without letting actual software from Redmond into my life. Open source and as free as a Black man can hope to be in the western world, I now enjoy 40 gigabytes of digital domination on my left hip, from mp3s transmitted on an FM radio band to cropping photos and removing red eye.
The reasons why are myriad and mystifying. With two kids, breaking out the MacBook Pro is often logistically challenging and 181 grams is easier to carry and store than 5.9 pounds. As a journalist (of sorts) the concept of shooting 5 megapixel photos, editing them live and posting them with accompanying explication is an intoxicating whiff of the ultimate scoop. Again, it comes down to freedom, the ability to do where before "doing" took some ... well, doing.
So maybe more blogs, yes? Let's see what happens.
Watching (kids): playing with dogs and scooters in familiar driveways
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