UPDATE: I am no longer @dberube on Twitter. I am now @DTB — for the record.

Just released to the public — much better than the original one released to coincide with the release of MoFuse Premium back in April.

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I may be posted a walkthrough of our new home in the near future.

Chris Brogan posted his schedule from the day, so I decided it might be fun to do the same. I doubt I will do it again.

4:30AM-ish Went to bed
8:00AM Alarm goes off, I hit snooze
8:15AM Alarm goes off, I wake up
8:20AM I’m in the shower
8:35AM Out of the shower and dressed
8:45AM In home office answering emails and Twitter replies and DM’s
9:00AM Arguing on the phone with Bank of America for 35 minutes.
9:35AM Heading to Providence for MoFuse board meeting
9:42AM Stopped and got Tim Horton’s Ice Coffee and donut as well as put air in my back tire that has a slow leak
10:05AM Arrive at investor office for the MoFuse board meeting
1:00PM Heading across the city to the MoFuse offices
1:20PM Responded to some email, Twitter as well as answered some support questions
2:00PM Took a business call
2:10PM Worked on the new Learning Center
3:00PM Tweaked some screencasts
3:15PM Went to Walmart to buy some small things
4:00PM At my home office, answering more emails, Twitter and support requests
4:30PM Waiting for Stacia, took a break and tried to played a quick game of NHL 10
4:35PM Unexpected business call that I’m happy I took
5:00PM Headed to Pawtucket to meet with Father Charlier, the priest doing our wedding
7:00PM Grabbed pizza from local pizza parlor for dinner
7:45PM Watched TV — Entire NBC Comedy lineup — feel asleep for about 20 minutes
10:25PM Went upstairs and into my office and continued working on some cool new features.
11:05PM Took out trash and a bunch of recyclables from labor day party
11:20PM Finally got to play that game of NHL 10
11:50AM Back in office doing work ever since
3:08AM Waiting for software on some mobile devices to install so I decided to write this blog post
4:15AM *** Anticipated bed-time.
8:45AM *** Anticipated wake-time.

There you have it, my past 24 hours.

September 25th eh? I hope so.

Good move by AT&T to come out, set a date and put their neck on the line a little bit more than they are probably comfortable with. Much better than a vague “end of summer” promise.

Once again I feel duped by AT&T and to some extent Apple, but I never believed that MMS and/or tethering would be on the iPhone by the end of Summer, “No way in Hell”.

Well, time is ticking. The end of Summer to me and to most people is the end of August and I can guarantee MMS will not work on my iPhone before midnight tonight.

We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G with 3.0 upgrades in late summer, once we complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with MMS,”

an AT&T representative said in a statement cited by Wired.

Why does AT&T keep stumbling with the iPhone? I happen to think they’re over promising simply to try and make Apple as happy as possible because they know their cash-cow contract with the fruit company expires in 2010.

I continue to contemplate switching phones and to a new carrier. I’m currently playing with a Blackberry 8900 and a T-Mobile myTouch 3G (still waiting for the HTC unlock code) and I can honestly say the iPhone is a better device.

Yes, I have a cool phone that does a lot of neat things, but it doesn’t do one simple thing that mankind has done since the beginning of time — share pictures — and that is finally not the phone’s fault.

I’ve been playing catch-up on the health care legislation since I’ve been completely consumed with work.

I happened to catch this article on the New York Times website and it quotes Senator Baucus of Montana:

The current draft of the bill scores below $900 billion over 10 years, covers 95 percent of all Americans by 2015 and is fully offset.

Fully offset to me usually means you’ve found money elsewhere (Medicare as an example) or that you’ve cut programs that are less important than health care to pay for this.

What Senator Baucus actually means is that it is fully offset by the money saved from Medicare and new taxes.

By fully offset, Mr. Baucus means that the legislation would not add to the national debt but rather the cost of the bill would be covered through a combination of savings, mostly by reduced spending on Medicare, and new taxes.

The politicians are worried about this health care legislation adding to our massive national debt and their ingenious plan to keep this from increasing our debt is to pay for it with new taxes.

Why stop there? We can cut our debt to zero by adding new taxes. Anything can be accomplished by simply creating new or increasing old taxes.

This is not a fiscal solution. If all new taxes are going towards paying for this health care legislation then none of these new taxes will be going towards paying down our national debt. Much like paying interest only on a mortgage.

From: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/senator-sees-good-news-in-cost-estimate-on-compromise-health-bill/?hp

Google recently stated almost the same exact thing I did, only two months after I did.

The future of mobile apps is not in device/operating system specific applications but mobile web applications.

Read: My post
Read: Google’s take

Update: I guess I’m taken too seriously at times. No, I do not think Google reads my blog for advice.

This is an oldie from 2006. I revisited it last night because I’ve been rethinking the entire education system.

From: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html