Jake’s Life

If you’re anything like me you read a lot from your mobile device. While Pocket IE is a great browser to read on the go, often web sites and their designers do not take into account the fact that images, Flash content, and those million rotating ads won’t load very quickly. I personally love it when designers aim for quick loading times.

Today I installed WP-PDA, a Wordpress plugin which renders the web site in a very friendly view for mobile devices. It doesn’t redirect the browser to a mobile version of the site, it just uses a modified mobile-friendly CSS style. It allows searching posts, category browsing, protected post access, and commenting.

This is how it looks on my T-Mobile Dash running Windows Mobile 6.

Of course, most of the blogs I read also have RSS feeds that I read through Newsbreak.

Well now, today was fairly pleasant. I woke up and heard from Dizzle, who of course needed something. I don’t mind though, because every time I’ve needed something he was there too. Anyway, he came over and I installed Windows Mobile 6 on his new T-Mobile Dash. Sandro wasn’t feeling good so he stayed in bed until Dizzle got here. Damn, he is so cute in bed.

Moving on, we went to California Pizza Kitchen for lunch, then picked up Gammy to go grocery shopping. After that I put her groceries away and took Sandro home. Then I went to the mall and got a haircut. I usually get an even umber one all around, but have been missing actually doing something with my hair for the past few years. Despite the fool trying and failing to decapitate me with clippers (got a nice little gash on the back of my neck now), I’m overall pleased with it. Sop the blood up and I’m good as new! Here’s the result:

Since then it has just been me, my homework, a bottle of pinot grigio, and my Juvenile Delinquency textbook.

I hear and see people bashing law enforcement all the time: The way they drive, the way act with people, talk to people, and what they do in stressful situations. The reason I’m posting this is the response I saw to a YouTube video the other day here.

Take the following situations and put aside your cop-hating mentality and ask yourself what you would do based on what you know:

I know, I know. Not everybody is like the assailants in these videos. Most people are decent and hard working. But does LE keep a list of the people who are bad to stop and check? No. They also have to deal with the in-your-face hostility that we have all come to know.

I love how everyone is screaming “Look at what they did to him!” Ever stop and think that someone who kills an elderly woman then shoots a cop point blank and jumps out of a three story window will just turn around and be handcuffed when he’s caught? Probably not.

At least MS-13 is usually easy to spot.

I have some posts in the works, but none of them really done yet…so I’m going to go to bed now, and you’ll come back later for them!

I took an extra day off this weekend because Sandro came back from Peru on Tuesday night. After I left work on Wednesday morning we couldn’t wait to see each other so I went home, grabbed clothes, and went to his house. He had something to do that night with his mom so I couldn’t steal him back to my place like I wanted to, but I went back the next day and scooped him up.

We spent two nights together here and during the day really didn’t do much. We watched Pan’s Labyrinth, which was a great movie. The rest of the time we spent being pretty lazy with each other. We went to Matthews Beach on Friday night which was nice because it was still warm out.

Yesterday my friend came over and introduced me to Afterburner salsa…it was good, but my stomach is getting the best of me. I went to meet up with someone from work and had a tummy-attack, so I flew home and was stationary in the bathroom for almost an hour. Today it’s felt better, so I’m living off of a combination of Slim Fast and vitamins until it is better.

In better news, it hasn’t rained in a while here and my car has stayed shiny shiny shiny.

Lately, for some reason, I have been finding so many things that would have benefited me so much in school. I’m entering my last term, and after Juvenile Delinquency and my Criminal Justice Capstone I will be out of school, with little chance to use these resources.

Think Free Online: Think Free is basically an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet app, and presentation creator a la MS Office) which is free and web-based. Definitely worth a look if you can’t afford MS Office, can’t get the dirty versions to install properly, or are not impressed too much with the open source alternatives.

Notely: Notely is a self-proclaimed “collection of online tools designed to help all you drunken students out there to organize your busy lives. whether you’re in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized.” Definitely something I could have used when I was beginning my college education.

Free Book Notes: “Free Book Notes .com is dedicated to finding all of the sites with free book notes or “free cliff notes” and indexing all the individual free study guides and free book summaries for you on one easy to navigate site.” I would have loved this site in high school.

End school-related usefulness.

Mint: I’m dying for Mint to launch. “Mint is building a free, simple, and secure personal finance web-app. Designed to be effortless, Mint consolidates your financial life in one place. Easily see how much you have, how much you owe, and where your money goes. Advanced alerts notify you before you bounce a check or forget to pay a bill. Patent pending algorithms even show you personalized ways to save and make more money. If your finances could use organization without effort, Mint is for you.” I’m suffering through MS Money 2007 right now…..

Beautiful Agony: Is this considered porn?!

Windows Live Writer: One of the most useful apps Microsoft has published lately. It’s what I use to publish jakeslife.net.  

Desktop Two: A Flash-driven web app that creates your own desktop with every basic program you’ll need (web browser, e-mail, RSS, blog app, media player, office suite, web editor, calendar, address book, and IM). It even has 1GB of file storage so that your files are there anytime you log in.