Week of firsts

So here's another in a week of firsts - my first blog post from a netbook. I got this HP mini a few weeks ago for a graduation gift (hooray, got my MBA). It's awesome the niche this tool fills in my life, highly portable yet highly usable web access. It will be hard to replace this medium until the ultra-portable projection screen becomes a reality. Anyway, the other significant first of the week was listening to Pandora in my car via my blackberry. Tuesday I updated the system software on my 8830, kudos to RIM for making some nice improvements to the browser, email display and calendar function. As it turns out, I can now run Pandora on my blackberry, which is totally sweet. I hooked the phone up to my aux port in the car and presto, instant streaming custom radio. Satellite radio will be toast when they lose their exclusive contracts with the NFL, etc. It's really somewhat a shame that the land based (lower tech) network is continuing to dominate satellite cellular and data communication. Satellite mobile phones seemed like such a better solution than blanketed cellphone towers everywhere.