I have to agree. I have 5 phones on my family plan. I changed the shortcuts assigned to the buttons on my phone, and forget that if I pick another phone on the plan and accidentally launch the crappy web browser. Have never received the minimum $1.99 charge on those phones. ever.

Regardless, I have yet to fix a friend's or family member's 'slow' or 'misbehaving' computer that had anything other than IE as the default web browser.

Many cars require you take your hand off the wheel to do the following:

• Activating the turn signal
• Activating the hazard signal
• Activating the emergency brake
• Activating the wipers (front or rear)
• Activating the window defroster (front or rear)

God forbid if there's a cop nearby when it starts pouring rain, near dusk, and you have a lot of mouth breathers in your car fogging up the windows.

I already have a Nano, and would like to upgrade to iTouch, but only if/when it has a camera. How difficult could this be? (iTouch + Camera = iPhone - phone, right?) It seems that is Apple making consumers choose between running a huge a library of applications and games, or having a camcorder/pedometer? Whatever.

• It takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• The characters have un-American, un-pronounceable names.
• The actors are normal-looking, middle-aged people.
• The special effects take a backseat to everything else.

I suppose Peter Jackson's name was the only thing that kept this from being laughed out of Hollywood. 'District 9' and 'Moon' are the best sci-fi movies I've seen in awhile.

Had to teach progamming class at a tire plant. Our classroom was over the vulcanizing oven, so not only was it hot, but smelled of burnt rubber and sulphur. Just a little a taste of hell I never want to experience again.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10214556-27.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 A quick view of the day's top selling tracks reveals several at $1.29 (which earlier today were under a dollar)

My daughter is off to college next year. In checking the school's suggested configuration for a laptop computer, I was pleasantly surprised that her current refurbed-and-outdated-yet-still-works-fine Dell Inspiron more than meets the bill. Meanwhile (w/graduation less than 90 days away), I keep hearing "all my friends are getting Macs for college". Most college students are going to twitter, facebook, download music, and basically do stuff that could be done on a netbook. A Mac is overkill, but oh-so hip and trendy. What will my daughter be taking? A well-equipped mid-range dual-core HP widescreen laptop that is magnitudes more powerful than her current laptop and the school's requirements. Heck, I even ordered a custom skin for it (using one of my photos and http://schtickers.com/ which is great by the way!) and the price? less than $550 with tax, s&h and everything else, including the skin (and no rebates to deal with either).

Enterprise management tools -- not bundling. Lots of IT admins and managers I speak with would love to make Firefox (or something other than IE) their enterprise browser, but they can't unless they have a good way of managing in the enterprise. Firefox's lack of enterprise management tools is a glaring strike against what is otherwise a far superior product compared to IE.