Oh my GOD, yes I am still alive. I recently started writing another blog - for SocialVibe - and I have been a horrible mother to TechDarling. Please forgive me? I'm back. I will update on the regular I swear, just please don't leave me.

Ok I'm done begging. Let's see, lots of new tech stuff happened in the last month or so, including the iPhone 3G - which I've had the opportunity to play with. For the first time in my life I actually WANT one, which is crazy, because I'm a die-hard iPhone-Hater. Maybe it's because of the fabulous accessories that you can dress it up in. But I'm more interested in the fabulous accessories INSIDE of it. They have all these amazing applications, for Facebook, Twitter, etc. That and my Blackberry Curve has been acting a fool the past few weeks. It's only a year old!

Moving on, we had an earthquake today here in LA and I'm going to be honest, I've never experienced something so exhilarating/terrifying in my life. I was on the 11th floor of a high-rise and the entire building started swaying and shaking. I thought for sure I was going out the glass wall that I was sitting a mere six inches from. But alas, I made it out alive.

The aftermath was the crazy part.... almost instantaneously, all of my social networks began going off like firecrackers with updates about the earthquake. "Did u feel that?!?!" "Earthquake!" "That was at least a 5 or 6-er" Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, I had at LEAST 20 IMs in 10 minutes. The actual quake wasn't that bad, but the flood of communication that came after was what REALLY shook us up. The cellphone networks weren't working for hours afterward.

It's true what they say... the future is mobile. Web 3.0, my friends. I know this because I am a victim of this disease. Every time I go somewhere, do something funny, see something unusual, etc, immediately I want to let my network know. I met Magic Johnson a couple of weeks ago and the first thing I did was post it on Twitter. My entire office is on Twitter and sometimes I catch us using it for inter-office communication! It's not just Tweets that have got me and the rest of the world crazy... there are countless other devices and applications that make computing-on-the-go easy as pie.

And in keeping with the mobile theme of this post, I'd like to talk about out a very smart alarm clock.

The Tyrant, by Alice Wang. It is a damn tyrant, because if you don't get up when it starts ringing, it kindly picks 3 contacts from your mobile address book at random and calls them every 3 minutes to let them know just what a lazy bastard you are. My friends would haaate this, as would the countless other random contacts in my phone. And since I am a regular at sleeping through my alarm, I'm going to guess it would happen quite often. What? I'm just not a morning person.

Thanks to my very good friend Matt for telling me about this one. I think he thought of me because he used to be my roommate and witnessed me sleeping literally all day on the regular.

via Engadget