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I got an email today that refered to me as a deity!

If you don’t want to click on the image to read it, here is what it says:

“Some may call you developers or hacks, or to some you may be known as cyberpunks… but to us here at BOA Design you are known as Gods!

Because of this.. we wanted to email and thank each and every one of you for the advances you have made to the already brilliant iPhone. We are a new company who make sleek, form fitting, faux leather cases for apple products, like the iPhone and iPhone 3G and we would like to send you one in appreciation for what you have done.

Please reply back to me here at *removed*@boastyles.com and tell me what sort of case you would like, iPhone or iPhone 3G and what address to send it to, then your new BOA case will be slithering its way to you shortly!

You can check out our products at www.boastyles.com for pictures and reviews etc.

From,

BOA
‘because it feels good when you stroke me’”

I have heard reports of at least one other well known ORIGINAL iPhone developers getting this offer as well.

I let them know what I wanted and got a response back saying they would send it out to me.

Yay, I like getting offerings.

Now if I can start getting people to pay me a 10% tithing on everything they make, I will be set.

They always say that admitting there is a problem is the first step.

I entered this relationship with my iPhone 3G after Steve Jobs introduced us. Steve promised me that it was the right idea to breakup with iPhone 2G and join the big boys with iPhone 3G.

At first it was all good. That sexy body, 3G, GPS, double the disk space, a flush headphone jack, and that new 2.0 firmware, and Steve had assured me that the SDK would fulfill all my “needs”.

If only our relationship had stayed that way.

Instead, iPhone 3G started to change.

We will be talking and she will just go blank and leave me there alone.

She teased me into Exchange support for my work email, but then behind my back turned off my never-auto-lock, and put a key code on the front door and wont let me remove it.

And as for keeping me fulfilled… It’s more like unfulfilled….

Steve told me I would have the same API’s that they have, but that was a bold faced lie. Instead iPhone 3G’s SDK is a tease. She shows off all the things that she can do when you hang out with her, but then when you try and get some of that sweet loving she yells at you and tells you, “That’s only for Apple.”

I feel so betrayed and hurt…

Then I heard Pwnage was being released and I thought I would at least get to see a little of my old iPhone in Miss 3G….

Once again she turned out to be a big tease!

This time she is playing the give a little, but withhold the real goods.

She gave me back my SSH access, but changed around all her frameworks so none of my old code will work.

Then she teases me into working with the new toolchain, by saying that with just some little changes I can still use that code. So I gave into my geek needs and started making those “small changes”. She forgot to tell me that a lot of those small changes would be small if we had documentation but instead I get to play a searching game to try and figure out all the unknown changes that cause my code not break.

So after a night of fighting, we had just about made up and decided we needed some sleep. Then today she decided to leave me. She locked up and refused to boot.

I finally talked her into unlocking, but then she told me she needed to “sync”. Funny how she forgot to mention that this sync would take 2 hours.

Then after work she “we” decided it was time to try and finish making those “small” changes. Well this just lead to ANOTHER all night fight. Finally I thought we had made up and she compiled my code without errors. I was so happy, but I guess its fun to watch me suffer, so when I tried and run the code, she left me again and locked up.

We are trying to make up again, but once again she needed her “sync” time. She has been gone for about a half hour, and I am thinking I shouldn’t expect her until morning.

I am sure you can agree that this is a pretty abusive relationship I am in. (usually it is the guy that is abusive, but not in this relationship)

I am thinking we need couples counseling.

I think it might be best if we get Steve to come to a couple of the sessions.

Only problem is I don’t see a section on Apple’s site for counseling sessions at the Apple stores.

Maybe I am forced to be abused…

Hopefully Steve will have a talk with her and give her some relationships tips in firmware 2.1. However I don’t think Steve is willing to talk to her about putting out in the SDK bed, so I might be forced to keep working with her in that area. Hopefully someone can come out with a relationship documentation or something….

If you are in the Phoenix area and want to put together a support group, let me know.

PCWorld put together a list of 20 cool iPhone apps today, and my program RemindYou made the cut!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/148296/20_cool_iphone_apps.html

“The concept behind RemindYou is remarkably simple — essentially, its goal is to make sure you never miss another appointment ever again. And how does it do this, you ask? Well, by syncing up with iCal, Outlook, or Entourage and then overlaying a graphic of all your appointments over the iPhone start-up picture. Thus, instead of seeing a picture of the Earth from space as your default start-up screen each time you unlock your iPhone, you’ll see a list of all your appointments. RemindYou can be purchased from the iPhone 2.0 App Store for $19.95 for a lifetime license.”

The only thing is that they are saying RemindYou is in the AppStore, but it is actually only for Jailbroken devices, and is available within Installer.app. (I wish Apple would let us in the AppStore, but no luck since it needs a background process that runs every 15 minutes to keep the info up-to-date)

Even with that typo, I love the press and I am glad others enjoy this tool as much as I do.

Makes me all warm and fuzzy while I am giggling like a school girl

This has been a CRAZY busy week! What a week for the week after my vacation.

Monday was the Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) keynote, which was an important keynote for me seeing how so much of what I do now is iPhone related and this is where the new iPhone news was coming from. The new iPhone was annonced and I was excited until I found out that since AT&T is now subsudizing the iPhone so the price can go down, that they will no longer allow you to have a pre-paid account on the new iPhone. Since this is what I have, this sucks for me.

Then outside of Apple land, it was also my first day back to PayPal after being gone a week, which meant that I had a weeks worth of emails waiting. I also am the only person in the team of programmers that worked on this last project to do assigned to fixing bugs, so I had 4 people’s worth of bugs waiting for me.

Tuesday I had an appointment with the Pain Management doctor, which wouldn’t have been a big deal but they were running an HOUR behind. So I didn’t even get called back for an hour, and then the normal waiting in a room to see the doctor. I did find out that the reason my neck has been hurting for YEARS is because I have 2 bulding disks in my neck (one on each side).

Wednesday was actually a normal day.

Thursday, our new bed and my new computer chair got delivered. We have been needing a bed for a LONG time and I had to get another chair because I hadn’t been able to find one that doesn’t make me HURT after sitting in it for as long as I do. I decided to go with the chair I have at PayPal since I know that type doesn’t make me hurt. The only problem was it was WAY more then I wanted to spend on a chair. However I can already say it was worth it, as my butt and back no longer ache like crazy after only like an hour. Now I can sit and sit and sit I also had to pull some weeds in the front yard and trim the bushes, not to mention cleaning the entire house that night while Nancy was at work.

Friday was a very busy day. In the morning I had my “surgery” for my neck. This turned out to be more of an ordel then I expected. As I am sure you know, I don’t like kneedles! I started out ok, but they ended up having to try 4 times to get an IV in. After the 3rd try, I said that we better take a minute because I was getting light headed, but the nurse ignored me and kept trying. Well this lead to me almost passing out. (yea I know… what a baby…) (a couple of the nurses later said that my response was actually a response of my body (they called it something, but I can’t remember. If you know what it is let me know) and that there really isn’t much I can do to help it. I don’t know, maybe they were just trying to be nice since the other nurses were all making fun of me). Then once I was ready, I finally went in for the procedure, and thats about all I remember… I remember lying on the table and feeling them put something into the IV, and thinking that it felt like it was not going in but just running down my arm, but I knew I was wrong when I could start to taste and smell it, then…… well…. I don’t remember anything after that. The next thing I can remember is being in the car with Nancy and Tyler and heading home (no I wasn’t driving).

Friday was also the day that my new computer came. Well when we got home there was a tag on the door saying we had missed them by 30 minutes. I was still pretty out of it, so Nancy sent me to bed and like the wonderful wife that she is, drove all the way out to Tempe to pick it up for me. Then when she got home I HAD to put it all togeather and start setting it up.

Saturday I spent working and playing with Tyler while Nancy was at work. I got all of the new features done for the upcoming release of one of my iPhone programs. I also continued to install everything on my new computer and get it all setup how I like it.

Then today (Sunday) I again spent working and playing with Tyler while Nancy was/is at work. I got a new website done for my iPhone programming. I am now just taking a break. My head and neck hurt and I am tired, but still have so much to do. Nancy should be home any time now, so I am at least waiting to see her and then I will decide if I move on to the next thing or go to bed.

This has been such a crazy week that I am kind of looking forward to work tomorrow, as I think it will be normal busy and therefore give me some kind of break.

One upside to this week is all the stuff that came this week, we have the satisfation of knowing that not a cent was put on credit! Its nice to finally be at a spot where that is possible and we don’t feel like we are drowning. We have also been getting our debt paid off, and currently have paid off more then 60% of it. (Now if they would just update the credit report people that we paid it off)

Thank you Nancy for being such a great wife and for sticking through it when times were tough. The only thing that can make being where we are now, even better is the fact that I am there with you. You mean the world to me.

My new computer came yesterday!

I got me a new Mac Pro!

I love it!

Here are the specs for those interested.

2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

6GB 10GB RAM

1TB 2TB Hard Drive

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

2 x 24″ Widescreen Displays

I was going to have 8 GB of RAM but I didn’t know that the Mac Pros needs it’s RAM in pairs (reminds me of the 90’s). So right now I have 6 GB in, and I need to buy another 2 GB chip, and then I will have 10 GB of RAM. (I can’t let that extra 2 GB go to waste)