Just watched the Rango trailer and it looks really good. But here comes my one issue – the desert portrayed is not the Mojave. How do I know? Saguaro cactus don’t grow in the Mojave.
Watching this again today and thought I’d stick it here for any that haven’t seen it and to make it easy for me to find again, rather than scrolling through my friend’s facebook history.
Joy from The Autumn Film on Vimeo.
When I talk to people about how mobile is changing the world, especially the developing world they often ask me how people who don’t have electricity charge their phones. I’ve got some nice pictures of places in Africa where one can pay to get their phone charged. Often it is from a car battery hooked up to an inverter, with a power strip and chargers attached. Nokia is far and away the most dominant phone manufacturer in the developing world and they aim to maintain that dominance. I think their new bicycle powered charger will help. It generates power to charge phones, much like the lights that are bike charged work.
Team that up with the newly announced Nokia C1 and it’s an amazing combination. The C1 battery is reported to last on a single charge up to 6 weeks. It also has a built in flashlight, FM radio and it can have 2 sim cards in at the same time. At $35 it is going to be popular I think.
That’s the lowest end of the new C Series phones. The C2 has some great features and 2 sim cards as well, but in the C2 they can both be active at the same time. I think I’m going to need one of these for traveling. The world is getting smaller every day and mobile technology is a huge part of it.
So the Humble Bundle is a set of 6 games that run on Windows, OS X and Linux. (It started as 5 games but a 6th has been added) You can get all of them for whatever you feel is an acceptable price. You can designate who will get the money you pay – developers, charity or some mix of the two. They are all indie games that would sell for over $80 if you payed full price for each – you can have them for any amount you see fit to pay. But the clock is ticking that there is not a lot of time left.
The games are DRM free and whatever you choose to pay gets them for any or all of the platforms supported. I downloaded all 6 for Win and Lin last night. You can pay via paypal, Amazon or Google Checkout. Here is a list of what is available in the bundle.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I love living in the future. Last week I flew to Indianapolis for meetings on Thursday morning and was home before the kids got out of school on Friday afternoon. It was two – 1 hour hops each way. The last leg home was on a Boeing 757 and I had a seat just forward of the starboard wing and engine. I love the contrast of the engine so close and the ground so far away. So I dug out my phone ( radio off per FAA regs) and snapped a few shots. This is somewhere between Atlanta, GA and Orlando, FL. Nothing special but it looked very cool to me. Click on the little ones for the big ones.
I’ve been doing a lot of messing around with the Taxonomy Access Control Drupal module. It’s pretty impressive. Basically it creates a whole new permissions interface based on taxonomy. In my case, I break down nodes by requiring a tag for the region that applies to the content. Then I have regional roles that have permission to edit these nodes, based on the taxonomy. It gives a nice new layer of of control over content. I highly recommend it.
