Look at it. The Samsung SPH-9200 I have no idea what I'd do with this. It's too small to be a laptop, too big to be a PDA or Smartphone. It supports WiFi, WiBro, HSDPA and only gets between two and five hours of battery life and can't make phone calls...but I want it. It's predecessor (featured after the break), the SPH-9000 was nicknamed the "butterfly" and if that was the butterfly, this would be the Monarch. I have to admit when ultra-mobile pc's hit the market a little over a year ago, I didn't hold any type of feelings for them, but when the butterfly was featured on Aving.com, I fell in love. By going cold turkey I was able to quell my lust for it...until this baby came out. Between this and the recently released HTC Shift I just may have to bite the bullet and get a UMPC after all. One day...no time soon but one day.

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Mobile Blogging
Cool news, I can now blog from my treo! and they called it a dead platform. Actually it is, but its bloggable now.

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

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I've changed the name of my blog to something more
me. From here on out, Intelligent By Design will go by #Reload (pronounced:
check reload). It sounds pretty lame now, but after it sets in it just feels
right.

I know it's been about a good month and a half
since I last posted, but I had to get in good with my schedule before I even
considered working on my blog. I have been able to keep up with facebook because...well
that's facebook. You can't just leave facebook alone for a month and a half,
it's too addictive. So I'm going to be posting to this alot more often, so the
two of you who actually read this can rejoice because I'm back. I have a lot of
catching up to do. But I'll do it over the next few days, for now I'll just
talk about one thing, Project Indiana.

Project Indiana is Sun Microsystems' answer to
Ubuntu Linux. Using OpenSolaris as a platform, Sun hopes to increase the number
of users who do OpenSolaris. Once I get a laptop, I think I'll jump on that
little bandwagon and try it out. The project promises something that linux
can't, and that's standardization. By organizing users into focusing on one
distribution they hope that one day they may challenge the Goliaths known as
Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. I'm personally interested in trying out
OpenSolaris because I see it's potential as an OS and the Solaris platform is
great for DTrace, which is a technology I've been waiting patiently to try out.
I'll keep the two of you posted on what's happening with OpenSolaris and if you
want to know more check out my sidebar.

That's it for today, goodnight and goodluck.

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It's no secret, everyone in the world covets a mac. I covet a mac, but I'm more partial to tablets at the moment... talk about full circle, but that's a story for another day. So I was reading this article about Steve Jobs' war against buttons and it made me wonder: who actually in the design industry uses Macs? I decided to dig deeper and do some research.

Just by watching movies, it's easy to believe that everyone who's anyone uses a mac. They're pockmarked across movies like: The Devil Wears Prada, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and Firewall. My Super Ex-Girlfriend really caught my eye because the guy in the movie worked as a project manager for a general contractor and his boss used a mac. The funny thing is, I interned at a GC called Robbins & Morton and Dell was the de facto machine of use, even for laptops.

The first question I decided to ask myself was, "If I were using a mac, what software would I use?" So I did a quick google search to find mac engineering software. The first program to blatantly stand out was ArchiCAD. ArchiCAD is billed as the industry standard for CAD users in the mac community and with good reason. It can export to AutoCAD and other Autodesk programs and can also switch seamlessly between 2d and 3d drawings. Another perk is that students can get ArchCAD for free with purchase of a mac, so there are many reasons to give this program a look.

A second program to use is PowerCADD, which is a 2d drawing program meant for technical drawings. This program is geared more towards structural engineers and drafters. It's also useful for graphic artists etc. This program is not as widely used as ArchiCAD, but it's a start towards the mac's acceptance in the Building and Design community.

There are more programs, but these two are the most consistent. Tune in to my next article which details the type of hardware available including accessories.

I've added some architecture/construction news feeds to the blog with the hope of making this feel more professional as an outlet for my academic wanderings. I still have plans on editing alot of code so that this blog can get just the slightest bit more personalized, so watch out for that also.

Today I read an interesting open letter about how a woman felt her Architect friends were poor and useless. Lucky me, lol. I just want the degree, I'll take a P.E over an Architect license any day.