AaronG

First off, no, im not going to do this. Not because I dont believe in my prediction but because I do not have any money to invest. As of right now, BP’s stock price is $37. BP’s stock was at $27 on June 25. That’s the lowest its been since the oil spill so many people have already made/recovered some money. To put it simply, $27 is the lowest its been in at least 13 years. There is no reason to think that it will go any lower than that.

What’s the worst that can happen, the cap that was installed this year will fail? So what? The price is sure to go back up. I know its wrong but, I think BP is just one of those companies that are just “too big to fail”. Any money that they use to clean up will surely be used as tax write-offs.

All im saying is that if anyone is going to make money off of this oil spill, why not jump on the band wagon?

*Im not a financial expert so don’t listen to my advice, however, if you do, and you get rich, be sure to give me a kick back

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I currently have a Windows Mobile phone (Touch Pro 2) and I like it but the hardware in it is getting old very fast. The announcement of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon processors make the 528MHz proc. in my current phone a joke. That is why, only about 5 months after getting my TP2, I have been searching for a new phone.

When looking for a new phone some of the things I look at are screen size, screen resolution, CPU and RAM. While all of these things are very important to me, they are not what finally make me choose one phone over another. I find the Operating System to be the most important thing when choosing a new phone. As of right now, there are 5 major operating systems. The leading 3 when looking at eye candy until now have been the iPhone OS, Android, and webOS. In the background are Windows Mobile and Blackberry. While the later two are no slouches when it comes to market share, they are primarily considered to be business phones. They don’t have the eye candy and flare that the iPhone, Android or webOS possess. They just do what they do in a simple caveman style manner. No bells and whistles, just the tools to get things done. While they do those things very well, they do not appeal to the average consumer. The average Joe is looking for a phone that is shiny and pretty. This is why Windows Mobile has been loosing market share to other Operating Systems at a rapid pace. This is where Windows Mobile 7 comes into play.

Picture from the Microsoft Website

Windows Mobile 7 was finally introduces today. There were many speculations and mock up concept designs in the wild but none of it was confirmed. It was finally showcased today at Mobile World Congress. So far, from reading a few forums and news articles, the response towards it seems to be very positive. If you saw it for the first time today, you would never guess that it was made by Microsoft (That is unless you had played with a Zune HD before). The whole things is composed of big text, big pictures, and a lot of finger swiping. It is definitely based off of the Zune HD designs. I own a iPod Touch but I will admit that the Zune HD offers a better music experience, which is the reason that I am excited that WinPhone 7 implements the Zune HD music experience into it.

So, with this release, I think that Windows is back in the mobile OS game. It looks like it could replace someones iPhone or Android device without leaving them missing their old phone. One main thing I will be looking forward to seeing is how many apps there will be available for this new OS. As of right now, im guessing that whatever apps are on the Zune HD will be fully compatible with this new Microsoft OS but that is not much. Apps are what set the iPhone apart from all of the other operating systems. The Apple App Store has pretty much any app that you could ever want. The Android Marketplace is also growing very fast and has all of the main apps that you could want on the iPhone. The introduction of this new OS means that it wont be backwards compatible with the thousands of apps already available on the current WinMo system.

Anyway, im glad to see that there will be more options to choose from in the future of Phone OS’s. I was really planning on switching from WinMo to Android (HTC Suersonic looks AMAZING!) but the introduction of WinPhone 7 might make me wait and see how it all plays out.

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Well, its been a while.

Half a year since I updated this site. I changed the theme yesterday to this, I got bored of the other one. I made a few minor changes to this one. My goal is still to learn enough about web dev to make my own personal theme, not just modify other peoples themes. I guess this would be as good a time to start learning about that stuff than ever since im not working (Winter season+Bad Economy=No HVAC work) and im only taking 2 classes this Winter semester (Econ and Intro to Computers). I guess its time to start looking for tutorials. That’s the awesome things about the Internet though, there are so many different help sites to choose from.  So many resources.

I also want to post a Photoshop tutorial that one of my Ps teachers made for our class, its pretty good. It shows how to set up an ordinary car and make it look like a show car on display. Ill get to that in soon.

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I was watching the Yankees v.s. Braves game and every time the camera showed someone batting the “A-Rod Cheats” sign was clearly visible in the background on the steps. I think its pretty funny even though I am a Yankees fan and will support A-Rod as long as he is a Yankee.

A-Rod Cheats

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My math teacher lets us turn our HW in whenever we want during the semester but today was the last day. Ever since I found out he was so lenient, I started slaking off on my HW so it had really piled up on me. I started doing it again earlier this week and just finished yesterday, one day before we had to turn it in. My Math final is next week so it actually helped me study for it since I was doing HW from earlier in the year. Same thing happened with my English class. I just finished it today and I have to turn my portfolio in tomorrow. I also have a debate tomorrow. I think it going to go pretty good. Its about The Patriot Act. I really learned a lot from researching about it and getting ready for the debate. It contains some pretty scary stuff. I also have my Computers and Networking finals this week. The Computers one will probably be very easy but I might have to study a little for the Networking one. I really liked both of those classes though. I learned a ton of things in the Networking one.

I’m going to have to go on the first day to my English/Math classes to see if there are any spots open since they were full when I tried to register for them. I really hope I can get those classes over with over the Summer semester since it is a short one. Only 6 weeks.

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