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I had an issue with my iPhone yesterday which I thought was highly unusual. I had upgraded to the 3.0 release of the firmware last week, and things were going fine until yesterday afternoon. While sitting on my desk at work, the phone all of the sudden lost connection to the network completely, which never happens because there’s an AT&T tower on the roof of the building. I figured it was just a random service issue, and to back that up a coworker’s phone was also having problems. Eventually for him, the service came back. For my iPhone, however, the service kept coming and going.

I figured once I’d leave work it would clear up, but my assumption was wrong as I didn’t have any service the entire way home. What’s worse is that when I tried to launch any app, other than the apps the phone came with, they would crash. Multiple reboots later and I’m thinking that my poor iPhone has given up on life. After a bit of research, I decided to do a full-blown restore to factory settings, and to my relief, my phone is working once again. I think part of the problem is that iTunes crashed out in the middle of a sync the previous night, which could have caused some corruption that I didn’t see until yesterday. At any rate, the only loss was the music I had on it, but that’s easily replaced.

Sometime next week I’ll be posting about my top 5 favorite apps on my phone.

DSL: It Lives
I managed to get the phone line wired up and the DSL functioning. The line itself was a lot easier than I had hoped. It was just a matter of running the line out to the interface device and hooking up two wires. The most difficult part was crawling around under the house. Hopefully, though, I won’t have to worry about going down there for anything else for a long, long time. The DSL service itself has been running well. Gaming hasn’t been affected, and overall we’re happy with it. In the process, I also canceled Tivo and Vonage, saving us a bit more money.

Valve Releases TF2 Sniper and Spy Update
Valve, within the past week, has released a major update to Team Fortress 2, this time with weapon upgrades for the Sniper and Spy both. Details can be found here, but the other major change is the way the new weapons are unlocked, or should I say given out. With previous updates, you had to complete achievements to obtain new weapons. Now, though, you obtain new weapons by pure luck. There are a few people that seem to have an idea of the statistics, but generally you have a chance for an unlock once per hour. The more you play, the better your chances. Of course, there are some people bitching because of all of the time they spent to obtain the other unlocks, and now people are getting them without much work. Personally, I don’t mind it. Everyone should have a chance to mess around with the new weapons, and some people just don’t have the time required for some of the achievements needed.

JustHost: So far so good
It’s been around a month since I’ve switched webhosting, and so far I’ve been happy with the move. The support is amazing. I had an issue and had it resolved within about 2 hours, which is a big plus. The site does seem to be stable, and I haven’t found any real issues yet. I just need to finish getting the site put back together and I’ll be good to go.