Someone today -- someone with the initials Judie Lipsett -- asked if I would be interested in doing a hardware review of some undescribed -- but probably pocketable -- device.
I sent her to a prior post: The “Columbo Moment” Is Killing Me!
That still stands.
There are tech posts here as I collect information and think out loud about future hardware purchases.
As purchases are made, the tech posts will drop off.
Writing a review is a black hole that sucks up every minute of time and which also produces nights of ill sleep as my mind churns and churns and churns over What I Might Have Missed or What I Think I Should Also Try.
Because I take reviewing seriously.
Reviews are supposed to be used as guides by people parting with their hard-earned (or easily stolen!) cash.
That's a heavy burden to ask me to carry.
It's one thing if I buy something for myself and then happen to blahblahblah (or bitchbitchbitch) about my use of it.
I'm simply describing what I'm doing, not what a review demands: which is permutation upon permutation.
Many said permutations being what I have no interest in doing or would never ever do (hello, you Exchange Mail server users, I cast my evil gaze upon you!).
When it comes to, let's say, the HTC Advantage, all my questions are personal use ones. I have no interest, for instance, in how it'd perform as an MP3 player. I have no interest in swapping mail with a distant server via a specialized client. My interests are narrow and specific and task-based.
Some of those questions are ones I've had for the iPhone too.
So, no hardware reviews here -- or anywhere.
Now, if only Steve Jobs would save my frikkin soul by revealing an iPod Air next month!
Damn you two!! Stop that!!!
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