I got it stuck between the first two pages on the home screen.  This is repeatable; you just need to scroll to the right pixel.  It takes a few tries, but it’s fairly easy to do.  The buttons on the “active” page (the left half) work as normal, even the folders, but the buttons on the “inactive” page (the right half) do not.  The left half is always the “active” half.

I could not reproduce it on the iPhone 3Gs.

Now, a few hours after taking this picture I was fiddling with it some more.  I got it stuck between two pages, then I tap-and-held on one of the buttons on the right half of the screen.  The screen scrolled to the “active” page, and the folder was gone!  It was nowhere to be found.

I had to reboot my phone before I could get my icons back, but when I did so, every folder except one was gone, and all my icons were scattered randomly across five home screen pages.  Took me another half hour to sort them again.

So, next time you’re fiddling with a software bug in iOS4, don’t be surprised if things aren’t as you expect when you reboot your phone…

Taken on my iPhone, so sorry about the giant black bars on either side.

I think I just got tired of hearing about my friends second- and third-hand.  Nobody tells people anything anymore, they just throw things up on Facebook and assume everyone will see it.

(I scanned them so you wouldn’t have to put up with a picture of a wooden table.)

Yes, there are six of them, and yes, they’re all identical.  The problems I see with the situation:

• They’re not de-duplicating their outgoing notification mailings, wasting both paper and postage.
• They updated my e-mail address in response to a support ticket I filed (their web interface won’t let you use e-mail addresses containing a ‘+’ character), so obviously I knew about it.  Why send me a postcard at all?
• They have other options for notifying me, notably via text message which would be free and instant.  I guess that’s too easy.
• I didn’t update my e-mail address until after I updated my account’s billing address to my house, but they sent the postcards (all six of them) to my previous mailing address.

I have five lines on my account, so had they sent me five postcards it would have made more sense (relatively speaking), but six?  To the old address?

Sometimes, I’m not too sure about AT&T’s collective sanity.

Can I still use “just bought a house” as an excuse?  No?  Hmm.

I guess this week I’ve spent several hours playing Fallout 3, with the Green World mod installed (as recommended by Shamus).  The improvement is immediate and obvious.  As they say, once you go green, there’s no going back.  Or something along those lines, I don’t really know.

I’ve also been watching several TV shows on Hulu.  Among them is V, a show for which I wrote reviews of the first few episodes.  Last year I said this:

I’m told that after episode four, they’re delaying the show until March.  I don’t really think it deserves to come back.

Having watched the latest few episodes, I stand by that.  The drama is overplayed, the Vs are too stupid, and the humans are either too smart or way too reckless, I can’t decide which.  That’s all I have to say about that.

Hmm.  What else?  I spent several hours programming over the last few days, and released SoundBoard 2.4 a few minutes ago.  I have a few ideas rolling around for a more professional version of SoundBoard that, if I ever get around to actually doing it, will take a fair amount of time.

Oh, and something I haven’t been doing:

I think I need to shave...

I’m trying to decide if I should just shave it all off, or groom it a bit so it looks less scruffy.  Both options take effort, something to which I am generally opposed, but I’ve reached a point where I don’t have much of a choice.  Any opinions?

I’ve also spent some thought-time on the stories I want to write.  I need some sort of motivation to write; writing for the sake of writing apparently doesn’t drive me to get anything done.  There’s also the matter of choosing one and just writing it all out, rather than jumping erratically between them like a drunk kangaroo.

I’d like to publish one of the stories a chapter at a time, under one of the Creative Commons licenses that will still let me sell the book later if I want.  I have a significant portion of that story written (just over 28,000 words), and the rest is outlined.  It would give me a chance to clean it up a chapter at a time, and finish the missing pieces.  I hesitate to publish it as-is, though, because I’m not really happy with the pacing, and some of the events are out of  place and need to be shuffled around.  Publishing chapters would effectively lock them in stone.

Perhaps I could do a chapter-by-chapter thing of another story I’ve been working on.  It’s an interesting setting, and I’ve got five interesting main characters who all have apparent goals, so I have an obvious direction for the story, and I haven’t figured out where the story ends yet, which would probably make it a good choice – no need to reorder things to fit the ending I want, instead I’d fit the ending to what has already happened.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to.

We’re moving in on Saturday, so we’ve got a lot of packing to do…

Hmm.  This is starting to sound suspiciously like work.

This was Brooke’s first time walking outside.  Isn’t she adorable?

She turns one year old in ten days.  It doesn’t seem like it has been that long since she was born…

If anyone has any problems please leave a comment to let me know.