About two weeks ago, I did something I very rarely EVER do. I broke my phone. 3 years – no drops, dings, nicks or bad scratches. Originally, I had planned on upgrading my iPhone 3G at the end of the month but I was shuffling some stuff around on my desk and the phone slid off the edge. Normally, it wouldn’t be a big deal – I’ve got a case for it and it’s only about a 2ft drop. Apparently this time it was enough. Phone fell flat on the front face. I picked it up an when I turned it on – white screen of death.

After a couple hours fiddling with the internals and some Google searching I had two options – hope the internal connection re-seating fixed it or replace the entire LCD screen and digitizer. Breaking it apart and putting it all back together didn’t work and I figured I was so close to swapping it out anyway, I might as well upgrade early. So after about 2 hours in line at the local Apple retail store that night, I walked out with a new iPhone 4.
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I remember playing all 6 games on my friend’s console. Gripping the joystick (black, square base with a single red button) between the web of our thumb and pointer, we’d play for hours until our hands started to cramp. Atari has converted them into flash based web games:

Atari Arcade

Bonus Link: Muppets return to YouTube!

My Brother turned me on to this site. Mostly guy stuff. Apparently the site owners filter over 1000 different tech sites and pick out only the stuff they think is cool.

And yes, it is awesome.

I don’t get a chance to catch many movies during their general release so I rely on services like iN Demand via my cable provider to keep me caught up. Problem is, not every movie makes it into any single service so I’ve been thinking about picking up a second service like Netflix. My brother actually canceled his cable and relies on Netflix exclusively – via direct download to his Xbox or through their DVD snail-mail service. Makes sense if you don’t watch a lot of regular TV considering the basic Netflix service runs $8.99/month vs. $75+/month for basic cable. Heck most regular TV shows are streaming online now anyway – Hulu.com being one of the best.

Anyway, here’s an ongoing list of movies I’m waiting on:

• Observe & Report
• BSG: The Plan
• Iron Man 2
• Clash of the Titans (2010)
• Zombieland
• Monsters Vs. Aliens
• The Expendables
• Edge of Darkness
• The Bad Lieutenant
• The Crazies
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• From Paris with Love
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• RZ’s El Superbeasto
• Avatar
• Bronson
• Inception
• The Wolfman
• Legion
• Book of Eli
• Up
• Pandorum
• Brothers
• Push
• Daybreakers
• The Hurt Locker
• Cold Souls
• Caprica
• Surrogates
• Public Enemies
• Extract
• The Hangover
• Armored
• District 9
• The Road
• Bart Got a Room
• Crank 2: High Voltage
• Planet 51
• Adventureland
• Where the Wild Things Are
• 9
• Inglorious Basterds
• G.I. Joe
• Moon
• Watchmen
• Fast & Furious
• Taken
• Terminator: Salvation
• The Limits of Control
• Star Trek
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Mutant Chronicles
• Coraline
• Fanboys
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycan
• Gran Torino
• Gomorrah
• Transporter 3
• Quantum of Solace
• Role Models
• Body of Lies
• Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• The Dark Knight
• Get Smart
• Street Kings

Every couple of weeks I browse through the iPhone App store hoping something catches my eye. 3rd party app development has really taken off – everybody with the SDK and a Macbook is hoping they’ll strike it rich with the next virtual fart machine, beer glass, etc. Sifting through all that useless crap can take some time but occasionally you stumble on a useful or productive application that enhances your iPhone.

This isn’t one of them. In fact, this app is the anti-christ of productivity. Simple to play, addictive and relatively cheap. Three components that make it easy to waste a couple hours staring at your iPhone screen.

We get a ton of junk emails everyday. In fact, our Barracuda Spam Firewall has blocked 56 million junk emails in just the last 6 months. I’m not sure what our current junk fax rate is but I’m willing to bet it’s something a bit less than 56 million. It gives me the warm and fuzies knowing that organizations like the NNRAA (National Number Removal Assistance Association) are out there fighting the good fight against unwanted fax spam.

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