Matt's old house

Check out this pic of Matt's old house on 65th I took today.  Its seen better days.

iPhone is actually location un-aware

Check out this link at the O'Reilly Radar... The author is apparently displeased at the fact that iPhone applications can't poll for the location of the phone at any given time. The only time an app knows where the user is is when that app is open and being used. So if you want to be, I guess, notified that a friend is within a block radius, this is pretty much impossible (vice leaving the application open). This was one of the big reasons to get one of these types of phones, so now I'm pretty happy that I'm waiting for the G1 Android phone on October 20 (or maybe a different Android phone, now that the G1 is sold out for pre-orders).

Vice presidential debate tonight

Was watching the vice presidential debate, and couldn't stop staring at the back of the stage where a mysterious black box hovered over the stage. I guess I've gotten to the point where any artificial, CGI-created, thing in TV or movies just really stands out (unless it's just done really well, then someone is paying the big bucks so no one knows the difference).

So, take a look:
What does it look like to you? For a while I thought maybe someone had written some racist slogan on the wall and no one had time to clean it off, so they just covered it up with a computer generated... black square. It turns out, based on this image from the heraldonline.com, that its some kind of a hole in the wall. All the conspiracy theories that were bubbling up, and it turns out, I'm guessing, to be a hole for cameras.