Due to the overwhelmingly positive response I’ve received since last selling out a coworker who did a podcast intervew it is with great pride that I bring you:

Matt Disher, our CIO and chief network dude, professing his undying love for the iPhone.

Alright that might be stretch, but the part where I said he’s on the podcast is true.

Here it is friends and neighbors, the introduction of a new internet word that you’ll soon grow to hate, iPhlogging.

Yes, you guessed it, its blogging on an iPhone. (Although in this case it is viewing a blog.)

Disclaimer: This isn’t a picture of my iPhone since I don’t have one. This is a picture from one of the adoring fans of my blog.

Disclaimer Two: No, my Mom didn’t buy an iPhone either. I actually have real fans.

Disclaimer Three: Fine, it is actually from the best man from my wedding who bought it and I made him take a picture. I’m still going to count him as a fan though.

Disclaimer Four: Alright, I didn’t even come up with the term iPhlogging, that was his wife. So, essentially, I brought very little to the table. But I did take the time to post this, that ought to count for something.

Update One/Disclaimer Five: After the initial post I got this email from my friend disclaiming Disclaimer Four.


I forgot to check the sending account on mail. That one should have come from me. I'm also the originator of iPhlog. The world deserves the truth.

Sent from my iPhone


So you may not have heard, but the iPhone is being released on Friday. Although if you haven’t heard, that is a big old rock you’ve been living under. Or you’ve been on Mars. I do hear it’s lovely there this time of year.

I guess that there is a running pool here about who will be the first Seapine person to get one. Apparently I’m in the top two along with Rick. If I were a betting man (which I am) I would not wage heavily on me though. Don’t get me wrong, I still would love to get one but I just don’t see that happening immediately.

It isn’t for lack of trying, I’ve even taken a two pronged approach to it. I figured that while I would try to convince my wife to use our money I would also try to talk Seapine into using its money. Given the amazing similarity of the responses from both sides I’m beginning to think that they’ve unionized against me.

And all this was before a tree in my yard fell down last night in the storm. Now my wife has to decide if she wants to spend money on a tree service to haul it away or green light me getting a chain saw. There’s a proverbial no win situation, although at least one of those options doesn’t involve me accidentally cutting a leg off. The lesson here is now there’s a “Looks like we have to use the iPhone money for something else” situation rearing its head. Stupid tree.

But enough about my sorry state of affairs. I’m sure the iPhone madness, insanity, and all around general bizarreness will be over soon. At the very least the current media storm will switch to a new media storm when the AT&T network belches, rolls over, and starts making crazy animal noises due to the crush of new users with unlimited data plans.

Hey wait, I just got an idea. I wonder if I can convince someone that an iPhone can somehow be used as a crude downed tree removal tool? The reviews say it doesn’t scratch, although acting as a handsaw probably isn’t what they had in mind. Regardless, I’ve got a new angle baby, I’m back in the game.