John Yu’s Blog

Just in time! I’ve been holding off on buying a new Digital SLR…I’m gonna have to bite. The plan is to travel to a state that charges less sales tax than NY and buy a new Canon T1I. The HD video capabilities will come in handy.

The coupon expires 6/30/09 so head on over to one of my favorite deal sites and print your own coupon.

Check out my very lightly used Zune 80GB on eBay. The auction comes with the player, unused premium headphones, USB cable, and box. This thing is good as new with no visible signs of use at all. It really looks brand new.

Microsoft Zune 80GB with premium headphones

I love my iPhone. Besides offering me pretty much everything I’d ever want in one neat device, it is also a life saver if you have small children. My 1.5 year old falls asleep to Elmo on my iPhone several times per week. It’s also great during those times when youre out in public and and you need something quick and easy to keep the baby calm.

Thats the end of the good news. I always thought it was cute how my baby knows how to turn on the iPhone, then slide the unlock bar from left to right. She then proceeds to press random buttons to try and unlock it. Normally this is not a problem. This week it turned into a very big problem. I don’t know what she did but I found my iPhone with a message asking me to sync it with itunes. Long story short, I had to completely wipe out the iPhone and start from scratch.

pwn3d!

Under normal circumstances, this process would be expected. I mean, who doesn’t sync their phones/PDA’s (does anyone use a stand alone PDA anymore?!?) with their PC’s right? Anyways, most of my settings were saved and I was able to recover them by doing a backup. Unfortunately, I love the casual games on the iPhone and spend many hours playing them. In 1 particular game, Virtual Villagers 2, I had achieved GOD status. I had the max people in the village, money (tech points) to burn, and lots and lots of food. I’ve put so many long nights into this game after my baby had fallen asleep to Elmo. Sigh…it was gone. Wiped out. I was so frustrated and angry.

Anyways, this caused a big commotion at home. Wife got pissed at all my swearing, Mother is pissed cause she doesn’t understand the magnitude of what has happened. Whatever…I’m tired. I ended up starting all over again yesterday. It humbles me to see how difficult it is to get started in this game. I still love my iPhone and keep it within arms length at ALL times. I just won’t let my baby play with it anymore.