I am at an AT&T store entering this blog entry on an iPhone. The typing is a little slow, but if you hold the phone sideways, the keyboard is a little bigger. That makes it a lot easier to type.

It is a fun toy, but I don’t expect I will be getting one anytime soon.

Well, the wait is over and come 5:00 central time the first iPhones will go on sale. The caveat is that you will have to be in the eastern time zone. Apple has decided that there will be a rolling roll-out for the iPhone. They will go on sale at 6:00 pm in every timezone.

Right now, I am watching a live stream on justin.tv of a high school student who is waiting in line at a store in San Francisco.

It is interesting, and I am looking forward to what the fallout will be once these phones are out in the wild, but I am not going to get one. I believe that there will be some negative press following the release of the iPhone, but I still want to see one.

I think I will go around after work and see if there are people waiting to purchase the iPhone here in Northwest Arkansas.

Although I can’t think of even one reason why anyone would want to, I have installed a calendar app on this site. It is good for finding out what holiday is coming up (thanks Google Calendar) and my birthday, but other than that I can see this thing fading quickly, but for the time being, you will find exactly 15 seconds of fun if you go to cal.murdog.com.

Enter at your own risk. Yea open source!!!

Ok, I am looking at something that seems really cool. Line6 has just come out with a new line of effects pedals that are unlike anything you have ever seen before. These new pedals allow you to easily pluck the guts of the pedal out of the stompbox and replace it with different guts. What does this mean? Well, it means that you can easily switch an effects pedal from being a distortion pedal to a digital delay just by swapping out the brain. WHAT UP? That is pretty cool.

I will have to think about it further, but right now it sounds like really cool functionality, but with very little real world use. I mean, it is rare that I look at my pedal board and wish I could … as I am typing this I am already rethinking this. There are times that I wish that I had different overdrives, or what if you could change the order of the pedal… that would be cool.

I guess there is a place for these… I KNOW! You could have one or two of these tone cores in you pedal board run, and you that are reserved for those effects that you only need in certain situations. Maybe it is that sCrEaMiNg distortion that is only useful for that one thing… whatever… you could switch that out with something more useful for all the other times you play.

What What… I have found a really great use for my tv other than watching normal tv. I am downloading TV from revision3. I know there are a ton of people out there who have been watching video podcasting out there, and I am actually one of them, but lately I haven’t been watching them because I don’t really like watching them on my laptop.

I have a 360 and I have been able to stream them to the TV for a long time, but I ran into a strange problem. On my desktop, for some reason that I can’t figure out, the Windows Media won’t find the videos on my computer. It is really frustrating. I finally gave up and started downloading the videos on my laptop. I have less storage, but it seems to be working.

The killer part is now I have a widescreen HDTV and now I can watch Tech shows from the net in full HD. Delicious.

If you have a 360 and an HD tv, and you are into Tech programming, gets yo’self Media Player and maybe the Juice podcatcher, and you can be watching some dopes geek programming.

I blogged not too long ago that Dell was coming to Wal-Mart, and how that was really good news for me and for Dell. Well in a “Duh…of course” sort of follow up story, News.com is reporting that you will be able to purchase Dell laptops from Sam’s soon.

Again, that is good both for the Wal-Mart empire and it is good for me. I am starting to really hate my HP laptop. Loud..hot…old. It’s a bad combination.

iPhonomics and the post-PC era by ZDNet’s Dan Farber — My friend Steve Gillmor is known for his very occasional cryptic and sometimes prescient posts that attempt to connect the dots and unpack the logic between seemingly unrelated events. This week he focused his attention on the iPhone, which he suggests is new center of computing gravity, and iPhonomics, which has something to do with the [...]

Steve Gillmor, Steve Jobs, Dan Farber, and many others have been talking lately about the impact that the iPhone is going to have on personal computing. Not just the cellphone market, but personal computing.

Is this just blind Apple zealotry or is there something to it? There have been calls for a long time for a device that has all the functionality a person could want in one convenient package. Companies have tried and failed to make that happen ad nauseum. What we usually get is a large, clunky, jack-of-all-trades-but-master-of-none device that leaves you frustrated and empty walleted.

Now along comes Apple with the bold claim of “Eureka, we’ve done it! We have created the perfect device…the iPhone!”

To be sure, it seems very cool, but for me there are some glaring drawbacks. First and foremost is the price. There are two versions. One is $500 for the 4GB version and the other is $600 for the 8GB. That is CRAZY expensive! It’s are you kidding expensive! The second problem with device is the storage. The biggest version is 8GB. I can’t even begin to put my MP3 collection on that, and that’s before we get to TV shows and Movies. MORE SPACE!!!!!!!!

Interface…sexy. Design…sexy. Brand…sexy. I still can’t see myself buying one.

It will be a while before iPhonomics happens if no one can afford the product that is supposed to drive the change.