Alice.

Crunchy on the inside.

A blog dedicated to an exploration of life, science, and the transgendered way from the heavily biased view of a MTF Gothic Geek.

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A Quick Comparison
When I first purchased my PS3 I compared the costs of the box and the XBox 360. After upgrades to bring the machines to parity (equal features) they cost the same. It's been quite some time since then and I decided to do another comparison of prices. All prices listed in USD.
Second Unlock and Rogers Data
I've successfully unlocked my second iPhone and now only have one remaining. I'll be shipping down the first to Panama on Monday or Tuesday. I also have a contract with Rogers which is pretty good.
1337 iPhone 31f, FTW
So, I have an iPhone. Okay, that's cool, but it's limited to AT&T, right? Well, not mine. No, mine's working quite happily on Rogers, the Canadian branch of AT&T. That's right, I have one of the elusive unlocked iPhones. Unlocked by mine own hand controlling two very sharp needles.
iPhone, therefore…
The Apple store trip today was, well, a trip. It was very neat slapping down $2,400 on the counter and humbly requesting three iPhones, a copy of Aperture, and two iWork '08 family packs. Note that the cash for one of those iPhones and the family packs was provided to me by those in Panama requesting delivery service.
Yay! Uhm… yeah… yay?
My flight has been confirmed, I need to book a hotel, and I need to prepare my computer for PAX by installing Windows and a variety of games. Starcraft and UT2K4 run native on Intel Mac's, which is nice.
I've been thinking.
The iPhone is cool, but only so useful. It's a phone and an iPod, despite it's nearly 1GHz processor and 8GB storage space. I need something that would allow me to SSH into my servers to manage them. I need storage encryption. I need quite a few things that are simply missing from the iPhone. On a personal note, I feel like crap.
Okay, I've been in Panama a while…
… and things really are going well. I'm doing work I enjoy (sysadmining a 25 Mac network and a soon to be 50-phone VoIP network too), I'm getting paid well, and I'm feeling the healthiest I have in a very, very long time.

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We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man person perish, yet the inward man person is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

— 2 Corinthians 4