A few weeks ago I attended Ed Dale’s Coming Home 3 seminar in San Diego. It was “Awesome” of course!

One of the major points Ed made was to be able to work with a mobile device when you aren’t in front of your computer. More specifically, get a iPhone and an iPad!

So of course, as soon as I got home I bought an iPhone. (The iPad will have to wait a bit, one toy at a time.)

Can I say I LOVE my iPhone!

Mostly.

What I love about it is that I can use down time (waiting for a haircut, waiting for my appointment to show up, during commercials…) to stay connected to Facebook, Twitter, urgent email, and skimming my Google Reader account.

I also love the camera and photo apps. I can take pics at an event, edit them and upload them to my social media sites or my blog in just a few seconds. Powerful stuff.

I love that it can connect to local Wi-Fi and cruise at top speed with the click of a button (assuming no password is needed).

I love the myriad of apps that are available to do just about anything you want.

What I don’t love is, in a word, AT&T.

Sorry guys, you suck.

Despite the kajillions of dollars you’re spending on TV commercials to claim you have the best coverage and the fastest speeds, that’s just bull. Before I bought the iPhone, I was aware of the complaints of other iPhone users about AT&T and they were right. So my advise is to stop talking about how great you are, admit that you suck and fix the problem.

Did I make a mistake by not waiting for the new iPhone 4?

No. I’m not into paying to be a beta tester for new products and software. That just doesn’t float my boat. I’d rather wait for kinks to be worked out by the ‘smart’ guys and not have to pull my hair out trying to figure out why it won’t do what it’s supposed to do.

Now, I have to admit that I said I would never get a smart phone, because I didn’t want my email to follow me around when I wasn’t at my desk (’cause I’m at the desk way too much), but I found a good workaround for me. I use my Gmail account, which is not my main email. I still have the advantage of being able to use email without doing double duty on the 500 or so incoming messages I get everyday.

One last rant, I HATE iTunes. It’s just plain stupid. It’s cumbersome and restrictive. Mr. Jobs, please take a lesson from Google’s Picasa. If iTunes could figure out my music the way Picasa figures out my photos, you’d be “all that, and a bag of chips”.

But, I still LOVE my iPhone.

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot
arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

‘I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.’

The old woman smiled, ‘Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?’

That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.’

For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace
the house.’

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in
them.

So, to all of my cracked pot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

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