Although it’s not a drastic change, it’s enough to keep me happy. The current iPhone design has gotten stale for me. I’ve been using each version from day 1 of their release and for the past two years, from 3G to 3GS the design has been the same, and I’m growing bored of it.

I’m a fan of the new design, albeit it’s just like the change from 2G to 3G with just changing the back and sides of the phone. The flat back of the new design and the individual volume buttons are nice on the new design. I was never too big a fan of the curved backside.

For about 3 years now Stacia and I have been talking about getting bicycles, but we just never got them for whatever reason. Instead of getting each other a present for the wedding (which I never heard of before, but apparently she has) we decided to we would get bikes for the Summer.

We both got 2010 Trek FX 7.2 bikes. They’re hybrid road bikes.

Here they are, the silver one is mine:

I haven’t ridden a bike in a very long time so I’m excited to get on it this weekend!

As you can tell, I get sick of things very easily. This is yet another redesign of my blog. I also redesigned my mobile site: http://m.dtb.me. I was using my personal mobile site as a proving grounds for not-yet released MoFuse features and new concepts. It quickly turned my mobile site into an ugly mess with so much non-related stuff on it. I’m going to try and stay away from doing that in the future.

Let me know what you think!

I’ve been playing around with Apple’s new iPad all day and I must say, it’s way better than I expected it would be.

I have been telling people that I think it was going to flop, and I was wrong.

Apple is very close to actually having something “revolutionary” and “magical” here, but it doe need a few things before it will be even close to those two adjectives they have been using so much to describe the iPad.

1. Multitasking. This is an absolute must have for this device. I see no reason why the iPad shouldn’t have it. The fact that it launched with out it makes me wonder. I should be able to keep my IM chat open while switching between Safari and email.
2. Access to the filesystem. I should be able to save any type of file from Safari, email or wherever to my device. I should also be able to upload it from Safari.

If they want to market the iPad as a “revolutionary” tablet and not just an oversized iPod Touch, then they should already be hard at work with these two basic computer functions. I wouldn’t expect an MP3 player to do these things, but I do expect and want my magical tablet to.

I’m confident Apple will eventually add these and other features over the next year, and as they do they will see more adoption and expansion of how people are using the device everyday.

I do believe Apple has done it again though!

Oh yeah, I wrote this on the iPad.

I saw a tweet from @davidharper of Percent Mobile last night and I decided to take a look at some data on MoFuse.

I wanted to see what kind of traffic we were receiving from Apple’s upcoming iPad tablet. Over 35,000 companies and organizations use MoFuse to power their mobile web site and we handle tens of millions of mobile pageviews each month, so I was sure we’d have some data available  on this unreleased and much hyped device.

The iPad goes on sale on April 2nd, and as far as we know, nobody outside of Apple has it yet.

The Data

• We are seeing small traffic from the iPad to our network. We began seeing traffic from the iPad in early February, but we haven’t seen a visit from an iPad in exactly a week — for what it’s worth.
• All traffic from the iPad has come over WiFi networks, none from AT&T’s data network. Traffic has come from the Comcast and Qwest networks as well as other IP’s that do not resolve. I know Comcast Internet service is available in Cupertino, CA.
• The sites the iPad users have visited have all been related to technology, business or communications, nothing else. I suppose this makes sense considering who probably has access to the device at this time — the developers and the business people.

It’s interesting that with this preliminary data we haven’t seen any traffic over the AT&T network yet, but considering Apple probably isn’t letting anyone take the iPad home, there’s no real reason to use 3G over a readily available WiFi network at Apple.

I’m going to continue to monitor this up until the public release to see if we can find anything else. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask.

I don’t know why I like it, but I do. It makes me laugh and feel good inside.

Watch this video of Mike Richards hitting David Booth

Mike Richard’s is tossed from the game, and will probably get a few games suspension for that hit.

Did he hit the guy late? No, Booth was admiring his pass, only about a second goes by. Did he hit him with his elbow? Nope. He hit him with his shoulder. This is almost a textbook clean hit, but, as we all know, the NHL isn’t quite sure what to do with itself on any given day.

They’re infamous for changing and altering rules for specific events, games, etc. Look at last years playoffs and all of the nonsense suspensions they handed out.

The NHL has absolutely no consistency with their own rules and they continue to struggle to find out what they want to be in life.

Need an example?

Watch this video of Scott Stevens delivering a very similar hit to Paul Kariya a few years back.

Almost identical, huh? So what’s the irony? Scott Stevens was hailed and promoted by the NHL because he delivered that type of hit often.

In just a few years, why such an attitude shift? Why take away good hard hits? I have my theories.

The number of European hockey players in the NHL continues to rise. Most of these players come from leagues where they play on Olympic sized ice surfaces and there is virtually no hitting and definitely no fighting.

Gary Bettman, the Commissioner of the NHL, wants his legacy to be the guy who made the NHL global with an expansion Conference in Europe.

Here’s a bright idea, focus on North America.

You had, what, 3,000 seats filled in Phoenix the other night, 6,000 in Atlanta, teams declaring bankruptcy, a television contract with the Game Show Network (to be fair, it’s really Versus) and you want to mold the game to make it more appealing to the European style of Hockey.

Can we stop this madness and get back to playing Hockey the way we play it?

Update: The NHL did not suspend Richards. They did the right thing, the referee on the ice made the wrong call. I would love for the NHL to keep proving me wrong!

If you have a .EDU email address or even your old college ID, you can buy Windows 7 Professional for just $30 here.

I originally called my old College Bookstore — the place where I used to buy expensive software for pennies — and tried to convince them to sell me (I’m not an active student nor alumni) a copy of Windows 7 for their price of $12. My flattery didn’t work.

So I found this website selling student discounted copies for $30 and low-and-behold, my college email is still active. It expires in December, so I just made the cut.

I also noticed that you can scan you college ID and send it to them, which was going to be my second option had my email not been active.

You can get either Windows 7 Home or Professional, both for the same price. It is a full-retail version and it’s downloadable. For $13 more you can have them ship a DVD to you as well, I did both.

I’ve been playing around with Win 7 for the past few hours and so far, I must say, I like it. Go get a copy and try it out, let me know what you think.

I snapped this photo with my iPhone while in Bed Bath & Beyond tonight. Most of the packaging for their products are simplistic and attractive.

One thing I don’t like, is the UM in their logo:

Why did they connect the U and the M? No other letters are even that close together.

It’s minor, since the eye probably skips right over it without even noticing that the two letters touch.

Everything is so fragmented now. I have my own blog, the MoFuse blog, Twitter, Facebook, Posterous/Tumblr and many people have more.

Everyone has their blog and Posterous/Tumblr account linked to their Twitter and Facebook account, some have it vice versa and others have everything linked together.

So, what’s the point? How do you use each medium?

What would I post something on my blog but not on my Posterous? What would I post on Twitter that I won’t post on Posterous?

What should I post an update on the MoFuse blog or on the MoFuse Facebook page? Should I just use the Facebook page as a point for the MoFuse blog RSS feed.

How are you using these various services?