That's a pic of the new Nokia 6225 CDMA2000 1x phone launched last week here in Spain at Totally Board along with their new 3200 series with the "make your own faceplates" phones which seemed to get all the press. But this phone above is really quite impressive as a comment on The Motley Fool (of all sites) tipped me off today. It's a light,...

Okay, so I over-architected. I admit it. I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time working on my new server-side system. I was trying to work out an MVC framework that included XML at its core for data and persistence, while allowing for arbitrary URLs and multiple views based on browser and device type with JSTL as the primary page logic. I...

Maybe this is obvious, but I think that mobile technologies are so great because everything about them is so new. People are still trying to predict the future and figure out the best way to use interconnected devices and every day it seems that there's another application of the technology that surprises you. And yet there's so much more to be...

Yeah! Check it out, Barnes & Noble is expanding their Spanish language section in a massive rollout both online and in their stores. This is *fantastic*! Books in all categories will be added, from self-help to literary fiction. And Barnes & Noble.com has started Libros en Espanol, an online service that includes author interviews, a best-seller...

RSS has come to the forefront again in the past few days, but instead of being the center of controversy, it seems that this time there are efforts being made to learn and expand on it. I think its become completely apparent to everyone in the weblogging community that the efforts to replace RSS have completely failed, so now everyone's regrouping...

Yesterday I read this story from TechDirt about how Verizon is spending a billion dollars on Nortel CDMA equipment, and I had *no idea* what the significance of the story was because I didn't really understand about the different CDMA technologies. So after after an hour or so looking up definitions and reading FAQs and all that I finally grok a...

Woohoo! I just got the piece of mail we've been waiting for. The Department of Homeland Security has approved our petition for Ana's immigrant visa. There was no reason to think they wouldn't, but you never know what might be considered a threat to national security nowadays. The visa petition you filed has been approved. The beneficiary for whom...