Tammy is having some fun with Siri, the built-in assistant in the iPhone 4s. Today’s discovery was that she could ask it to ‘call my husband’ and Siri asked her to confirm it was me. It even offered to remember that in the future! Tonight I’ll show her how to post to her blog using Siri and email…

From the WWDC closing session, 1997.  Watch it all to fully appreciate the passion, but around 16:30 in the video, you’ll hear Steve talk about the future of data access, something we will all know soon as iCloud.

Truer Words: “But mostly, since I learned in a text message from Corinne that “Steve Jobs died”, I’ve been thinking about friends we never meet. People we interact with every day but in a very one-sided way, and how they can be important to us without them ever knowing it.  And how it hurts to lose them, even if they were never really there.”

From others:

Scott Adams: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/1955__2011/

Web comic xkcd: http://xkcd.com/961/

Video of “The Crazy Ones” where Steve Jobs does the voiceover: http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-narrates-the-crazy-ones/

Things I’ve thought of but haven’t posted.

* I killed my old houseofwarwick.com domain name. I didn’t see the point any longer when I already had stevekirks.com. Plus, I felt like I was stuck with an identity that didn’t mean anything to me any longer.

* I don’t like Facebook and I don’t think I ever will. If you use it and it gives you something positive, then good for you. I’m not a “hater”, I’m just saying I’d rather get an email from you instead of a Facebook update. Put Twitter and Google+ in that heap too. Twitter has changed from what it was into something it had to be. That makes me sad a little.

* I play more Call of Duty on the Xbox compared to Halo–a first in many years. I just traded in CoD: Black Ops for credit towards the Hardened Edition of Modern Warfare 3. I’m actually thinking I’ll rent Halo 4 first before buying it. Seems weird.

* Matt Kerner called me the other day and I haven’t called him back. I’ve been busy and put it off because I want some real time to talk and not a rushed conversation between obligations. Matt, if you’re reading this, I’ll call you Tuesday night next week, OK?

* I sent some CDs home with my parents of jazz music from the 60′s. Shouldn’t that have worked in reverse?

* I’m typing this on a 10 year-old Apple iBook that is refusing to die. It’s a great machine and I’ve thought many times of sending it to the recyclers. I guess it just refuses to quit. I’ve actually thought of replacing the battery and keyboard since both are very worn. The spacebar on the right side in nearly worn through the plastic.

This is the first in a series of blog posts about my trip to Florida. I’ll write at least one per day so watch for more.

I don’t talk much about work on my blog. There’s a reason for that: they watch it. Really. Someone in my HR department researched me when I was hired and they’ve had me in a RSS reader ever since. No worries, then. I just don’t talk about work stuff.

My Florida trip is a work trip, and to save the Company some expense money, I’m flying Allegiant Air out of Springfield on a Saturday, coming back on a Saturday. It more than makes up for the extra hotel rooms and meals.

On the plane, waiting to take off. Two and a half hours to Florida!