So after a couple days of standing around Gamestop waiting for their shipment to arrive, they finally got some Wiis while I was there. So last friday, I finally got my Wii!

And man, does it rock. I’ve pretty much told everyone the same thing. “You don’t know, until you know.” You just don’t know how well this thing works until you’ve tried it. After that, You’re hooked.

I’ll post my Mii up here sometime soon, but for now my Wii number is: 0463 9052 3617 2606

Add me and send me some Miis.

Wow, this is great. The BlackBerry’s browser supports RSS now! If you’re on a site that has a feed, and you click the menu button to bookmark the site, the option to bookmark feed is listed. When clicked, you’re presented with a list of every feed that is advertised on the page. Bookmark it and it’ll be saved. It will even be updated automatically according to your selection of time.

When you access a bookmarked feed, you’re presented with an interface much like you’re used to for email. Each post title is limited to one line, but if you hover over it, it will give you a tool tip like preview of what the whole title says. Click the line item to reveal its contents. No posting, no requesting. It’s just there.

As if I wasn’t impressed enough that it supported feeds, I have to say its a pretty smart interface as well. Not bad RIM, not bad.

Ok, so anyone that reads me probably noticed that I never fulfilled my promise on my reports on the T-Mobile SDA Windows Mobile phone.

That’s because it was a total piece of crap. Everything about it was bad. The navigation, the way it treated email, the browser, everrrrrrrything. I’ve had a lot of phones in my time, and I’m no idiot. I can configure things perfectly fine. But that phone was a piece.

So… I traveled down to T-mo to pick up a BlackBerry 8100 (Pearl). So far, it’s fannntastic. I’m really impressed. Beyond the fact that I have a BlackBerry again, this thing is super slim and pure sex. Its very light, and feels like a real phone. Not like when a smart phone feels like a phone, but LIKE A PHONE. The screen is great. And best of all, it has all the amenities we’re used to getting on new hip phones. Its got mp3 ringers, an mp3 and video player, which I hear is great, but I haven’t tested it yet. The 1.3 megapixel camera even has a REAL flash on it. I’ve never seen that before.

Now that RIM has licensed PocketMac’s blackberry sync software, not only is it free but its Q & A’d to RIM’s specs. And if you’ve ever dealt with them, they’re harsh. The syncing was flawless, and way better than the version I used when I carried around a 7100.

So far so good. But its only been 3 hours. We’ll see how it goes from here.

Saaweeet. FINALLY, Xbmc went 2.0. They’ve been in a bug bash for months. Now that 2.0 is released, they’ll get back to adding more ambitious features. Can you say TV section? I CAN! Bring it on guys.

I’d like to give my thanks to the entire dev team. They’ve created the greatest media center application. There are plenty to choose from, and they’re watching Xbmc for ideas :)

Really, thanks guys. Xbmc has changed the way I manage and view my content. My wife even thanks you.

Well another Talk Like a Pirate day is here. Has it jumped the shark? Is its played out? Do we need to move on to Talk Like a (Zombie|Ninja|Gnome|Lebrechaun|Unicorn) day?

There’s not much to say that hasn’t been said, except that the world has lost a man of true passion. We could use a few more like him.

I’ve found myself posting a lot of development based content here. Since I don’t plan on stopping that any time soon, I thought it’d be appropriate to filter them.

So I made use of one of my domain names: simplisticcomplexity.com

I’ll be posting there exclusively about web development, rails, ajax, css, and all that other goodness. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and finally got off my butt and did it. It’s using Mephisto, and yeah, Mephisto is written in rails. Its hosted at SteelPixel just like this one is. If you’re looking for some hosting, give these guys some of your money (and tell them I sent you, I could use the good points after wrecking havock to their servers this weekend).

So, if you’ve been sick of the large concentration on Rails, and its deployment, you won’t see it anymore. Unless you subscribe to the SimplisticComplexity feed.

“It has come to our attention that some people want to program in things other than Java.”

-Sun Computational Theologist Gilad Bracha

DHH lets everyone know that Ruby on Rails and a (hopefully less sick) Ruby 1.8.4 will be included with not only Leopard 10.5 server, but the client version as well.

Wow! Every new Apple computer will ship with the Rails development stack. He also mentioned that they’re going to do their best to get Mongrel in there too. Maybe they can get Apache 1.3 upgraded to 2.2 :)

That’s great news, and Rails Core should be proud. So should the whole Rails community.