Ah yes, good ol' Oklahoma... Sad thing is, most of the people I've heard talking about that around here (Yeah, I'm stuck in that shithole of a state,) sided with the police about the whole thing.

Sketchbook Pro is already available for the iPad and it's the one app that has me interested in one. The lack of a ready stylus and not really knowing how well a capacitive stylus works is what's holding me back. Oh, that and the price.

They did invade here - and all we got out of it was T-Mobile - you know, 7th largest mobile operator in the world? They settled into the American Way of cellphone service so readily it's hard to remember they're a multinational.

People never mention Miranda because I imagine most people want to just install an IM app and start using it - not spend hours hunting down necessary plugins and tweaking it just to give it basic functionality.

That being said, I LOVE the concept of Miranda - it's just too much work and too much of a pain in the butt to bother with.

Hell some places, like here in Oklahoma, are still waiting to have their -first- 'sixties'.

No DJs between 6pm and 6am? You don't know how truly lucky you are. I -wish- our radio stations had no DJs for any period of time, you get more of their inane babbling (whatever happened to entertaining, witty DJs?) than you get music. I'm just glad there's a Jack FM station here so I can at least hear SOME music on the radio.

Funny how you mention that since just the other day at work we were noticing how my Edge connection on T-Mobile is faster than a co-worker's 3G AT&T connection was.

As someone who has to charge her phone multiple times a day I can say that something as simple as leaving an IM client running in the background takes a HUGE hit on the G1's already pathetic battery, if nothing else.

That is, assuming Android's brain dead memory manager keeps the program running in the first place, and doesn't decide to just kill it off for some reason.

While Android may not be nearly as mature as Windows Mobile - from my own experience it's vastly inferior to Microsoft's product It has potential, but it still has a ways to go. Granted, my own experience may be influenced by the fact that HTC decided to make the G1 a fairly sub-par platform for Android, giving it next to no storage and leaving it very little ram to run apps after Android sucks up the majority of it - but the same hardware running WinMo would be able to do so much more.

You should be ashamed for doing that - in fact anyone who'd reply to you for the same reason should be ashamed too!

Not that I'd do anything like that, of course...

As another (unwilling,) Oklahoma resident - let me agree with this. This is one of the scariest places I've lived in thanks to the fine populace.

Thanks to Clear Channel and the like - you already get this for free in your car.