I know I’ve been busy a few months but wow, I didn’t realize I was so busy that my last post was a month and a half ago.  Well I have been a busy bee, between working full time at QOL, working picked up a couple clients and also trying to get my personal portfolio updated see BilyFoster.com

Well part of the silence is cause I’m doing mobile updates on Facebook, need to get these all linked up better some how.  But also because I’ve been chilling on picking up devices so that I can get my hands on Apple’s latest iPad.  Of course I was up early March 12th placing my order like every other FanBoy (okay I finally admitted it – more on that in a sec).  I went all out thinking just getting the 3G version will be enough and with my 32gb iPod touch almost full I thought it best to get the 64gb version.

I was doing fine waiting until late April for mine.  Until last night, something came over me and I just couldn’t help it, I didn’t want to miss out on the first day hysteria, and I saw that if I placed my order I would still get it on April 3rd.  Now I don’t know if they just let you order until 1 week before launch to get it ON April 3rd or if they are running low on the first round stock, but this morning when I woke up and started browsing my morning blogs I read that orders as of today are SHIPPING by April 12th.  So I was lucky enough to get in under the door before it slammed shut on the launch day pre-orders.

Now to my newly admitted, FanBoy status for Apple.  I was just bitching a month ago to a friend of mine, “I’m not paying $500 for a phone.”  referring to the Nexus One screw job of not letting it be subsidized even though it was sold (only at the time too) for my provider (T-Mobile).  Yet here I was shelling out over $1,000 for two iPads that I haven’t even held in my hand.  So I have to admit I am a FanBoy of Apple.  This of course doesn’t mean that I follow blindly, I still haven’t jumped onto the AppleTV bandwagon.  For TV I’ve been a big TiVo fan until the most recent release, I’m just not impressed with the latest revision (at least not enough to think it will save the company).

So what will I do with two iPads?  Well there are a couple of options, Matt and Ma have a hard time with the GPS (Ma actually arges with it) and the screen of an iPhone is too small.  So they could use one to find things they need to get to, and when they get lost the little blue dot can tell them where they are vs where they need to be.  I may have one just for development, or for >cough< jailbreaking.  I’m hoping maybe there will be an App to help my Ma with her English, but I figured worse case I could always pop the WiFi one on Ebay after my 3G comes and see what happens.

Oh hey wait, there WAS one post that is missing, my review of the Lennovo Tablet, I’ll have to find my back up and restore that.  If you thought that was going to compete with the iPad you are SOARLY mistaken