Who says that just playing around with your smartphone is a waste of time?
The internet IS amazing – how one thing can lead to another, and another and another. Sometimes I’ll start in one direction and it isn’t till the end of the day when I’m closing down all of the windows on my computer that I’ll find myself back to the original window and task I started on (and still hadn’t completed!).
With my Android phone I’m limited in the number of windows I can have open, and my typing is exclusively done by my thumb. But between emails and newsletters and Facebook updates from the numerous friends and business pages I follow, with all their associated links, my phone is a gateway to a world of stumbled-upon information.
Tonight’s stumbled-upon discovery portends to be a significant one. While searching in the Android app market for a q-code reader so I could read something someone posted on Facebook, I found this nifty app (or is it a widget?) which allows me to access and post to my Word Press blog. So I’m using it right now to write this blog, with my thumb, while I sit on the couch with my 18 year old son, who’s also on his computer. We have a fire going in the fireplace as it’s raining or snowing outside (your pick).
I’m excited by my find – by my newfound ability to blog from my phone. Just like my phone has allowed me to take a lot more pictures than I ever have, and the Facebook widget has allowed me to so easily stay connected and informed, and my bank’s widget allows my thumb to transfer money to my don’s debit card as he needs it, I trust that this will make it more likely that I’ll blog.
Assuming of course that it works. And if you are seeing this, then it did, and I’m going to call it a miracle. Yep, just another of these crazy miracles…of technology.