Home at last...and loving it!

Well, I'm back home now and ever so glad. Everything's in it right place.

I got a puppy on Monday, January 20 (pictured left). Her name is Starbuck (as in the crack pilot Kara Thrace from Battlestar Galactica NOT Starbucks the coffee shop...) and she's just great; highly intelligent and very energetic. I never fancied myself a dog person so much as a cat kinda guy but she's really growing on me. I know most people disagree with the name but I don't care so much as you might think. That is her name and it's staying that way.

I was invited to the private beta of the Bolt browser for BlackBerry and I LOVE IT! It's really an amazing browser. It's feature-rich and fairly snappy. The best part is it has full ajax/css support and renders the actual page and not some stripped-down mobile version. Also it doesn't choke on scripts the way the native BB browser does which is huge in my book. I know iPhone already does this but I don't have an iPhone and don't plan on having one for the forseeable future.

The new OS (v4.5) was also recently released for 8xxx series BlackBerrys which is really exciting. Some features I'm really looking forward to are the full HTML email support, document attachment editing (MS Word and PowerPoint), streaming video in the native BB browser. Here's the full list of new features. Download it here.

Well that's about all for now. School's great and so's work. Also, I have the biggest crush on my Biology Lab instructor. Aside from that everything's pretty much hunky-dory.