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Thursday, May 25 2006

Blackberry Firmware

The recent upgrade of my Blackberry firmware had an undesired side effect: speed reduction. I feared this, that's why I had resisted for so long. I have learned over the years that firmware upgrades often come with undersired side effects. In this case the speed decrease manifests itself in two ways: (1) It takes forever for the machine to start up from hard hard reset (after removing the SIM card), and (2) Opening and responding to messages is painfully slow (takes up to 15 seconds after you hit Reply or Open.) The reason for 2 is probably because they introduced some sort of new database management code without testing it for scalability. When you have over 10,000 SMSs, calls and emails in your Blackberry folders, performance does become an issue.

Again, I had none of these problems with the old (and original) firmware, everything was snappy. Oh well.

Thu

Off to work, here we go. Tomorrow X-Men 3 opens, cool.

24 and Da Vinci Code

Forgot to say, this week was the season finale of 24. Very good, and cool ending. This is one of the most exciting shows on TV, no question. Excellent writing.

On an unrelated note, another comment about The Da Vinci Code. I noticed Paul Bettany, who play Silas, doesn't do a very good job with his accent during the movie. At first he speaks in Latin, which is fine, and btw, not that difficult to understand if you speak any other Romanic language and understand the sentence structure (or had to take Latin in school.) But I digress. The point I wanted to make is that he mixes in his heavy British accent with attemps to sound Spanish or Italian, and it doesn't work very well. He doesn't seem to make up his mind, and forgets what he wants to sound like from scene to scene. Not sure if anybody else will notice this.

AI

Taylor Hicks won the 5th season of American Idol tonight. Probably not the most talented contestant ever, but surely enough one of the most entertaining to watch, if not the most. His ability to perform and entertain onstage were highly developed, and none of the other contestants this season could touch him. Not a typical pop voice, but rather a classic R&B sound, with a voice more similar to Joe Cocker than to any of the current top 40 pop stars.

He got the million dollar recording contract and everything else that goes along with it.

Not bad for a harmonica player from Alabama

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