http://lifeinlists.com Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:11:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Friday I wrote a post about why I returned the 3g iphone (it was reposted here, thanks SAI and innonate). The objective was really to outline the pitfalls of the iphone for other business oriented people considering buying it about to be pushed over the edge, but the end ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/07/mobile-data-not-device/ With a little inspiration from Predictably Irrational (a very basic book about behavioral economics) I decided I want to trick myself into following through on saving for a long term goal. I want to participate in the Kiva Fellows Program. What is this? Kiva is a website by which anyone with a credit ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/07/peer-pressure-saving-for-the-kiva-fellows-program/ Lets cut to the chase, and get the details out of the way: the good: i love the new form factor really surprised by how much I liked the keyboard(s) the bad: no copy/paste no push email (fwding to a mobile.me account doesn't count) no email search no google calendar sync poor battery life no google talk or blackberry messenger slow ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/07/why-i-paid-for-them-appleatt-to-take-back-my-iphone-3g/ Great TED talk by John Doerr, on how we're not doing enough to save/protect our planet.  He's a Rice grad!   http://lifeinlists.com/2008/07/how-about-a-sense-of-urgency/ I've been really getting into reading the sunday ny times. Its a great way to discover new topics, and its generally pretty entertaining on a sunday afternoon, when trying to avoid a computer for the last day of the weekend. In order to keep track of the things that caught ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/06/the-sunday-times/ There's a building tension between two travel sites that I currently use to manage my travel plans, Tripit and Dopplr.  Tripit is going after the professional crowd (with a seemingly web1.0 approach) looking to manage their travel plans, while Dopplr works for travelers at large, as it provides strong tools ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/06/dopplr-vs-tripit-they-should-merge-or-integrate/ I havn't seen anything (not that it wasn't there) over the past week about donating to help out the victims of the Chinese earthquake crisis, so I did some snooping.  With all the concerns of fraud, and just generally wanting to get my money to the most useful organizations, here's ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/06/donating-to-help-with-the-chinese-earthquake-crisis/ So I got a Kindle a couple of months ago, and I've finally got enough time to write about it. The Kindle is confusing.  It has a shocking amount of functionality, and its hard to see what Amazon was trying to focus on.  Its a web browsing device, it could be ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/06/kindle-reshaping-the-computer-industry/ http://lifeinlists.com/2008/05/bike-car-public-transit-face-off/ So I've been on a bit of a bike kick lately.  The problem is, the websites supporting the community are pretty lame.  Yes, I probably have high expectations, but if this movement of riding rather than driving is going to pick up, it needs content publishers that are using technology ... http://lifeinlists.com/2008/05/fight-for-your-roads-keep-riding/