Inflexibility of age

As my youth quietly slips beneath the rising tide of years, I find myself becoming gripped by the stranglehold of inflexibility. As a younger man, I loved nothing more than to run off at a whim, leaving careful planning and forethought as crumpled heaps covered in a cloud of dust I sped away into the night.

Well times certainly have turned. While in years past I would gladly go out for the evening with only a starting point in mind, I now cower at the thought of an unplanned detour.

This evening is a perfect example. I had an usually busy day today. The frenetic pace was perhaps just maybe half a step ahead of what was mangable for me, so instead of feeling exhilirated, by the end of the day I was exhausted. The only thing on my mind was getting through the last few minutes of the day

The inflexibility of advancing age

I have always been a pretty conservative guy. Not just in political terms, but in all

A lot of pressure

About 4 years ago I got I was living in Brooklyn, and commuting in to the city most days via a long subway ride. I usually had about an hour underground in each direction. Back then there weren't iPhones, and I didn't listen to a lot of music anyway so I had find something to do on these long and interminably boring commutes. My mental health was being seriously affected. I was becoming depressed, and I think it was because of the long periods of boredom i was being exposed to on a daily basis.

At that point in my life i had a T-Mobile MDA, which was a remarkable smartphone, and a peice of electronics which had a major influence on my world view and my future.

What was so special about the MDA? It had what I consider the perfect form. It was a large touchscreen device that hid a beautiful keyboard that was exposed when you slid the screen to the right. When I would write using that phone, i could feel the creativity flowing through me. It made me want to write, and I was inspired to blog nearly everyday.

I then upgraded to the Cingular 8525. It was the successor device to the MDA, and its keyboard was even better. The 8525 was my most beloved device i have ever owned. It combined an amazing keyboard with a powerful and modern (for its time) operating system.

I then fell pray to the lure of the iPhone, and though it is an amazing web appliance, media player, and applications platform, it is only good for media consumption, but extremely poor for media creation. I stopped writing, i had left my muse in a drawer.

Now i have this beautiful Touch Pro 2. It has a really nice keyboard, and i feel a lot of pressure to write, and write well. If I decide to keep this thing i hope i can write enough to fulfill my desire.

Landscape email program for iPhone.

I am testing a couple of landscape email programs for the iPhone. This
is being written on a program called Touch Type. Not a ton of features
but it does include a spell checker. I like it.

Sent from my iPhone

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Landscape email on the iPhone

This post is being written on a program called Fire Mail. It is
cmpletely baebones, it does not include a spell checker or a way to
save your message as a draft. I recommend Touch type over this one.

Sent from my iPhone

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Blogging on the go

Nearly three years ago I began blogging on a mobile phone. I would post almost everyday. I had a long commute on New York's underground railraod system. It provided me with an outlet, and was a really fun way to pass the time.

I felt then as I do now, that my creativity and writing was inspired by the devices I used. The first phone I used was a T-Mobile MDA. It was the first side sliding Pocket PC and had a chiclet keyboard, it wasn't the best keyboard out there, but it was very usable and i didn't know any better. Next I moved to a Cingular 8525. That keyboard was like a dream, and I still think it was the best qwerty device I have ever used.

I was seduced by the slickness of the iPone. I liked using it quite a bit, and still use one nearly everyday (though mainly as an MP3 player), but I was never inspired to write with it. I was still blogging every once in a while on the 8525, but on terrible day in the worst town in America (Boston) I lost my beloved 8525 in the back of a cab. So the writing dried up. I think the last post I actually wrote was about Larry Craig and his bathroom adventures.

I have been searching for the right phone that I could use to do some writing. I tried so many from the barely usable Glofiish M800 to blackberry curve to the HTC Fuze to the Nokia E71. They all failed. I knew it had to have a side sliding keyboard, and US 3G. The Fuze seemed like it was going to be the one but there was something about it that I just couldn't get behind. I think it was the small touch screen and Windows Mobile's crappy browser.

I have been using a Nokia E71 for the last 6 months but the tiny qwerty was just too tiny to use effectively. Then I began to see rumors of a side sliding E series device. I thought first finally this might be the one I had been looking for. So this weekend I saw Nokia had a good sale on the E75 so I snapped one up.

On my way out of the Nokia Flagship store I saw its the Nokia N97. I wish I had seen it on my way in. I tried it out and it was amazing and now I am thinking the E75 is going back and i will pick up the new hotness. I guess only time will tell.

A Short Video of Tooki

Awesome, just awesome

Nava got another new toy