Here are some photos of my cat… and the new place:

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FYI, I still don’t have an iPhone yet. Why?

Despite of how much I love the iPhone, I still don’t believe in signing  a two year contract for AT&T/Cingular. I’ve been a customer with Cingular back since when they were PacBell PCS, I have no reason to be locked down to a contract to prove my loyalty to a carrier. Especially since the iPhone isn’t subsidized at all. If signing a contract meant I can save a few hundred dollars, then at least the value proposition is existent. There is absolutely no reason to a sign a contract for a phone that will inevitably be unlocked (and probably be available at the same price).

Service issues aside, the iPhone itself is simply one of the most brilliant consumer product ever made. It is a device that will completely reshape the mobile phone market. The problem is, the other phone manufacturers seem to be thinking, “Wow, the iPhone has a touchscreen, we must all move to touchscreen-only phones as well.” I’m not saying that iPhone’s touchscreen isn’t brilliant, but it isn’t the end-all solution to the woes of the mobile phone design we’ve seen in the past decade.

There are already several manufacturers that’s decided to manufacture their own versions of a touchscreen phone. Some of which has been offering touchscreen capability for years (for example, most of HTC’s Windows Mobile based phones). The problem with these phones isn’t whether or not your buttons are placed on a screen or engraved into a rubber…

It’s been more than a month since my last post…

I’ve moved away from the cold fogginess of San Francisco, thirty-five miles to the south where it’s warmer and sunnier in Mountain View. Besides the benefits of weather, I also have a bigger, nicer place along with a much shorter commute to work.

Now that the new furnitures are in place, I’ve been meaning to take some pictures of the new place. There is a certain time in the afternoon when the sun hits the windows just at the right angles, and lights the room brilliantly. I’ve been missing the opportunity to capture just the right pictures at this time though… so I’ll get to it when I get to it.

Step 1: Remember to get my camera’s battery charged.