Mike’s Moblog

Though busy packing and getting ready for our upcoming trip to Kansas I did find time to figure out how to use the moblog capabilities of my (neglected) TypePad site. I can take (surprisingly low quality) images on my new Motorola V600 cell phone and email them directly to the web via a special …

Here’s a Maui wrapup, full of images that didn’t fit elsewhere or that simply deserved a second chance to be seen. There are a lot of sunset photos; what can I say?

 
A pair of sunsets.
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Well, not my values, but as evidenced by recent events at home and abroad, this list, while incomplete, seems fairly accurate.

Thanks to Jesus’ General for providing this update.

The drive to Hana is legendary; something all visitors to Maui should do at least once. As we’ve done on previous occasions, we not only drove to Hana, we continued on and drove around the back side of Haleakala, looping all the way back around the island.

The road past Hana really isn’t too rough, …

According to this BBC report, the objects shown below are only 5 millionths of an inch in size and are “grown” using advanced semiconductor techniques. (See the referenced article for more technical details.) I’m sharing them here simply because they are beautiful and provide a fascinating view of the nano-world….

Though not supported by Apple or Motorola, it is possible to use the Motorola V600 mobile phone with an Apple computer, in this instance a 15″ Al PowerBook. This article describes setting up a bluetooth connection; no doubt using a USB cable would be different.

While it’s true I had no problem finding info on how to make the mac/phone connection, in some ways I found too much info. The resources linked to below have a tremendous, though somewhat overwhelming amount of information about all things cellular. What I wanted was a simple, direct guide to setting up the V600 to work with my Mac. This document is my attempt to provide a reasonable summary of the steps required to make this connection.

Here’s a list of the sites that I found to be useful in putting together this guide:

AT&T Wireless forum

Phonescoop V600 site

HowardForums

A bi-partisan group of former US military commanders and diplomats held a press conference and issued a very strongly worded call for the defeat of the president this fall. Known as the Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change, they represent an unprecedented coming together of a normally non-political group of career government servants.

In …