www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com is a blog dedicated to living downtown Des Moines and making it better for everyone. Since I recently moved downtown and had some ideas, they were kind enough to let me post them. Thanks!

It’s no secret that I’m a supporter of Apple and the iPhone, their network partner choice aside. However, that doesn’t mean that I’d like to see them win the market. As much as I enjoy the app store for its ease of use for the consumer, Apple’s content controls are overzealous. Those controls have been brought to light recently because of all the “pr0n on the iPhone” controversies, but they also tend to restrict political and other controversial social content in their mobile app store. Not to mention tethering (mostly …

Since I moved into the new place, I’ve been without internet (except the paltry offerings AT&T has served to me at unsatisfactory speeds over the 3G network), and I’m ready to pull my hair out by its roots. It’s still 2 days until the internet hookup guy will come to my place (this was posted from the Starbucks on the corner). It’s disconcerting how dependant I am on the near instantaneous access to the global data network that is the World Wide Web, and yet: I don’t care. I don’t …