Unfortunately once they “officially” launched in Houston service dropped like a stone to my apartment who after a year is still barely in their service range. However if I take my laptop to the nearest Starbucks which is only a mile away by car (so even less as the crow flies) I get a really good speed, using their mobile internet device.

So starting this Tuesday I will be trying the cable provider that seems to do at least quite a bit of the apartments here in Houston, its a company called Wavevision. Hopefully it will be much better, I don’t think it could be any worse. As of this writing my speed is 1.62 Mbps down and .57 Mbps up according to Speedtest.net.

Of course your probably wondering why I didn’t ask about these slow speeds? Well I did repeatably, in fact that is pretty much all I ever called them about during the last year, and it always boiled down to “you’re not really in our service area.” And after a year, there is still no plans on their site at least to put up another antenna that would serve me better.

                          

My first thoughts of Heavy Rain is that its very much like Interactive Fiction, which is traditionally a text based game such as Zork.  This has been fully upgraded and with the exception of having to use your fingers to play Twister around the controller its a very fun game.

About to start playing it again, this time however i hope for a much better ending. My first time through if I didn’t the worst possible finish it was mighty close.

                          

First was the YouTube Video I did here:

First View of Zoom’s H1.

And then while walking to work, I decided to give the thing a test in recording.  Here is the unedited Wave form according to Audacity:

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised as to how good of a job it did with out having to touch any of the controls but record, and stop. Attached to this post is also the MP3 version of the WAV file I made. Nothing really interesting is discussed (or I don’t think so) but it was a test mainly.

                          

However for now, I have to admit while I’ve heard plenty of reports that the Kindle is slow compared to the Kindle App on the iPad, this is what I’m thinking of getting. Perhaps I’ll have it in time for my trip to DragonCon.

                          

I’d actually been looking at this camera for a while, and decided it wasn’t going to get any better than it is currently priced (at least not till it becomes outdated by something newer).

First off, this is my first ever “prosumer” camera, its a bridge between the camera’s that look like an old 110 film camera and the DSLR cameras. So while this does have a lot of point and shoot functionality, getting used to where every thing is on the menu does take a little getting used to.

I would recommend that anyone who has bought this camera certainly at least glance at the 148 page PDF that is included on one of the CD-ROMs, it goes into a lot more depth than the dead tree manual that it comes with.

Of course, you want to see examples of what the camera can do right?

This is the camera using natural lighting.

This is a sample of the camera in Text Mode.

As I get more familiar with the camera, I’ll post better pictures.