Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Scratch the Scottish Oak

After speaking with my uncle Paul who knows a ton about guitar making. It would seem oak is the absolute worse wood to choose. So I'm going with good ole' swamp ash.

Anyways enough of the guitar stuff. Seeing as though I'm calling this blog Nerdtek I should post something appropriate. Tech stuff for nerds!

I don't personally have a cell phone. At the moment I don't really have a need for it, but I have been kind of geeking out over Motorola's KRZR. A friend of mine picked one up and I liked what I saw. He picked up an unlocked phone, and hacked his bios. Has quite a few games on it, among other interesting utilities. He also hacked his lights to suit his needs. I'll provide more of write up after I interview him.

I was a little disappointed by Palm's Foleo. The Treo was where it's at a phone and mobile computing device in one, but they missed the boat a little with it as they didn't integrate the phone features of the Treo into the Foleo. Keep your eyes peeled though as I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Palm listens to what people are saying and offer it.

As some of you know from my other blog, I'm not a Microsoft guy. I use their stuff when I'm forced to but if I can get away with it, I'm M$ free. So I've been really interested in the One Laptop Per Child project. Recently Nicholas Negroponte has brought Intel on board. After a long period of adversity between the two groups it looks like they've decided to play nice.