You got the joke wrong.

Yes, literally. Except I'm not a woman, and I'm rarely in an airport. But I do wear the same clothes as she.

I tend to think too much when I write, so much of my output is bland and marketing-like. My initial post did sound like an ad. My apologies. I am a techie, but normal people prefer to talk to me because I can translate.

I just don't want people to dismiss WP out-of-hand because it's Microsoft. They have foisted plenty of crap products on an unwitting public, but the WP7 is not one of them. It's a good product, that isn't for everyone, but it doesn't suck.

It comes from the providers to allow for firmware updates and device-specific testing, since the providers will get the complaint calls. But they are doing a coordinated push from all providers to have 98% upgraded within a month.

BTW, for those not on the early roll-out list (AT&T is moving slowly), there's an easy way to force the update:

http://www.wpcentral.com/force-mango-update-early-through-zune-software

As the only Slashdot visitor with a WP7 (now 7.5) phone, I figure I'll chime in.

I installed 7.5 yesterday and I haven't had a ton of time to play around with it, what I've seen so far, I like. The multitasking is smooth, and the full integration of social media is handy. I'm not sure when I'd use the Facebook chat feature, but it works. They made some changes to the Metro UI, the best part is related to searching and scrolling.

What really blows me away are the integrated search features. Rather than having to jump to a specialized application for a restaurant, I'm able to quickly find what I'm looking for, with reviews and other information, right from the search.

The reason I chose a windows phone in the first place was because of the clean interface that presents everything I need to know at a glance. 7.5 improves upon that while making significant changes under the hood. This won't convince anyone to buy a windows phone (not sure what will), but I've been very happy with my experience.

I'm friendly to the personal message, simply stating, "I am not Christina, please update your address book."

If someone signs up for a website using my email, I immediately go there, reset their password, and change the email address to something like "abuse@yahoo.com."

If a kid signs up for an account with me as their parent, I immediately revoke their account. I'd want someone to do that to my kids if they were trying to get around me.

Any other accounts, I do what I can to alert the company, but for the most part they get labeled as spam. If the company did not take steps to verify the email address, then it is absolutely spam, and not my problem.

I have a 3 character yahoo ID, and I get a ton of these. Unfortunately I was never able to make any impact on the person filing tax returns using my email address.

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Or is it his liver?

...LAST WEEK when it was actually news.

What they need to do is hire some replicants.

Couldn't agree more. My wife became a doula after our first child was born, and we had our second at home with a midwife. So many comments on this board are completely ignorant, and makes me wonder how this is good topic for Slashdot. The vast majority of this country is uneducated about childbirth, and just relies on the factory system in hospitals. I avoid birthing discussions in general, because people just want to be validated, not educated.

There are rules?!