MidKnight Gallery

Well. It has now been a whole year since I got my iPhone.

Insofar as changing my life, well, I’m not making millions in Hollywood, and I don’t have hundreds of devoted followers.

All in all, I’d say that’s a good thing.

It definitely has been a boon though. The ease of email, texting, keeping my calendar on me, etc. has made it much easier to keep my life in order. My wife called it the first phone she didn’t want to throw across the room. It definitely is the first phone she knows how to use everything. Of course, I would not be as happy if the iPhone were still stuck with its original capabilities, as the added software has made all the difference in the world. Google maps and street view have helped me get directions and verify them. Facebook has let me keep in touch with friends. Remember the milk has made todo lists that I can keep with me EASY. I can even read ebooks from Baen and other publishers, IM, check bank balances, keep up on Twitter, or write entries like this to my blog. And then there are the games.

All is not perfect. While most places had better coverage under AT&T, my home coverage continues to be flaky at best. It’s an awkward shape for a phone (though no worse than many Blackberries), and sometimes you trigger something you don’t want to because of the touch screen.

But I’m glad I have it.

–fixed some typos due to my fat fingers while punching it in on my iPhone

On an iPhone related note, there is now an app in the iPhone app store that allows you to post Worspress-based blog entries and edit them on your iPhone or iPod touch.

The compatibility of the text editor with Safari has simply grown by leaps and bounds.

We’re going through several here.

First of all, I’ve moved to a new host. 

Second – I’ve upgraded the blogging software at the same time. Actually this was less scary than doing the upgrade in place because I not only had a local copy of the website, but a fully functional one online I could always flip back to. The only headache was getting the old database uploaded to the new server as phpmyadmin didn’t want to handle that much data…..

Next step after another post on DNS stuff and filtering: Get my theme updated.