will work for doughnuts

I’m happy to report that I’m now in the iPhone Developer Program. It almost doesn’t sting to pay $99+tax to write software for my iPhone. It’s an odd situation, basically since I applied as an individual, I have only 1 developer certificate that is tied to me, but I can have 100 devices using this key. I have been amazed at the iPhone when playing Super Monkey Ball, the platform is really far more powerful than I had imagined so I’m looking forward to getting going. It’s also nice now I can actually play with the OpenGL-ES demos and I can stop sorting through Open Toolchain docs.

Sadly, Yahoo Mail’s spam protection is now a joke and I’ve got to set up something else for this blog’s publicly listed email. I’ve got 2 accounts that pre-date GMail that I have used at one time as a primary and secondary mail accounts and now both are unusable. One account just dumps nearly everything into the spam box.  If you haven’t gotten a response when you mail mr.donut at yahoo, it’s because of the overzealous rules they are using. My other account on the other hand has the opposite problem and gets a ridiculous amount of spam. Yahoo Mail seems unable to detect even the most obvious spam emails.

This is just pathetic. Give me a moment while I set up a mail account for this site using GMail.

“After I did it, I heard a voice - my own voice - saying, “Who the fuck do you think you are? Who are you that you can force your Goddamned minutia on other people, your stupid bullshit, your stone-ground artisanal condiments? How dare you. You should be ashamed.” And I was.”

Yeah, you said it man. That’s exactly it, I swear I do get why people use Twitter, but I just can’t use it and Tycho has explained why better than I could.

Twitter account: deleted

Friendfeed: removed all services, for now I’ll just ignore friend requests since I’m not publishing anything.

Flickr: all photos are friends only, removed some contacts.

Facebook: profile is still there, but made use of their new privacy settings (unchecked everything) and heavy use of the limited profile. Facebook only serves as a rolodex for me, and I don’t use it otherwise.

This blog: I guess it’ll stay for now, I haven’t made up my mind if it should survive.

Google Reader: Removing ~30 feeds, will try to regularly remove feeds that I’m not reading.

Why?: I’m not really sure, but let’s see if it cuts down on time wasted online. I don’t imagine that you (my friends) will care since I rarely use any service except Flickr, and all of you have access to those photos.

I got my rejection letter from Apple’s iPhone Developer Program today. It’s not explicitly a rejection letter, more of a “Thanks for applying, maybe we’ll approve you later”.  I guess I’ll be waiting on the hacked 1.2 release before being able to test anything. I knew it was a long shot, but I was hoping they’d let me in as an individual.