David Jack Wange Olrik

Welcome to The Future and congratulations on finally getting MMS on the iPhone.

I really don’t get what all the fuss is about – I first used MMS way back in 2000¹ or 2001² and haven’t really used it since.

Just to sum it up for those who don’t know what MMS is:

MMS gives you the ability to send an image from one phone to another, just like email except that it is a vastly inferior and limited version of email.

I can access my email from any where, on the web, on my phone even on my television set, so why would I want to send a snapshot to someone in a crappy resolution that is constrained to just one single device? MMS even gives the carriers one more thing they can charge you for, postponing the moment where each carrier³ realizes that they are just “the pipe”.

Enough ranting – Enjoy your new toy, I predict that you will use it once or twice and then forget all about it…

1. This is the year The Future stated, as can be seen in any movie about the future – it’s always in the year 2000-something. [↩]
2. It might have been earlier, but my memory is a bit fuzzy there… [↩]
3. There are some carriers that have realized this, but they are few and far apart [↩]

<p>Now <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/dansays/sets/72157603835099525/">this</a> is cool!</p>

This week my future wife went on maternity leave, and on her last day on $work, her co-workers gave her a little present.

This present brought back all kinds of cool memories from way back. Way back when the handle on the Sodastream machine was orange, terrorism didn’t exist and the Soviet union wanted to nuke us.

The “Cola” still has that very special syntetic taste that we love to hate, and there is still something cool and refreshing about carbonating your own beverages.