My 2009 Year In Cities

A few years ago I read a blog post on Kottke.org where he listed out all the cities where he had slept 1 night. Did not have any international travel this year which makes me want to renew my passport since there may be a few trips outside the U.S. in 2010. Below is my 2009 list and please feel free to post your own lists in the comments.

To see the list on a map, you can go here.

1. San Francisco (Home)
2. Tampa Bay, FL (Super Bowl)
3. Santa Monica, CA (Work)
4. Las Vegas, NV (Tiger Jam, Bachelor Party)
5. Walnut Grove, CA (4th of July)
6. Butte, MT (Golf/Fishing Trip)
7. Hawaii, HI
   
8. New York, NY (Work/Baseball Trip)
9. Pittsburgh, PA (Baseball Trip)
10. Detroit, MI (Baseball Trip)
11. Chicago, IL (Bears-Steelers Game)
12. Beverly Hills, CA (Thanksgiving)
    
    

My iPhone Home Screen

I came across a blog on First & 20 about peoples iPhone home screens. It was very interesting to see what people had on their home screen which got me to thinking about my own iPhone. To the left is a picture of my home screen and you can see right off the bat that I love staying connected to the people around me. Tweetie 2 provides the best user experience to read and use all of Twitter's functionality while with Foursquare you can quickly see what your friends are doing at that moment. The Facebook application is amazing and sometimes prefer the application to the site.

There are a lot of standard apps that are very useful on a daily basis such as the Phone, iPod, Clock, Settings, Contacts, and Calendar. I love having the App Store on the home screen because I can obsessively check that the apps are up to date as well as see what the hottest apps are.

Some other apps that I use very often are BreakBook which not only provides up to date scores for all sports but also the lines if you are a degenerate gambler. AIM 2 is great if you are in the middle of a chat and want to continue it away from your computer. I find it to sometimes be annoying to run in the background so I mainly use it when quickly logging off of the computer without finishing a conversation.

One last thing I have recently noticed is that I rarely ever click on the phone icon. Whenever I am going to make a call, I always double tap the home button.