I haven't seen a downside to having two, so I wondered.

In my never-ending quest to no-really-seriously get a new cell phone, I may have narrowed it down to two choices.

One involves buying an LG Rumor 2. The other involves buying a Sidekick. The Sidekick is significantly more expensive. Is there anything that really makes it worth it?

Ooh! Palm-sized keyboard works like a laptop in your hand

Home theater keyboards continue to evolve, and each iteration seems to get more practical. This 6-inch-wide Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard fits in the palm of your hand, and features handy LED backlit keys for use in darkened environments, rechargeable batteries, and a just-big-enough touchpad. You don't need to point it directly at your computer, because it wirelessly communicates with a USB receiver you plug into the PC. And what's that? A laser pointer? Perhaps that's getting overly helpful, Brando.

Nevertheless, now we're getting somewhere. Keyboards are a must when using a computer in the home theater, and this could be the next incremental improvement. TiVo had the right idea, this week rolling out its new remote with that slide-out keyboard for its Series 4 models. If we could combine that TiVo remote technology with this Rii device, we might be getting close to the perfect PC controller for home theater.

The Sidekick has had some problems lately, so I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

(Problems like all of everyone's personal data being deleted for a week while Microsoft and T-Mobile bickered over who was responsible for the outage.)

Thanks for the sander advice everybody. I'm volunteering to refinish some stuff for my sister-in-law & although I have faith in elbow grease, she likes toys.

I'm volunteering to refinish some stuff for my sister-in-law & although I have faith in elbow grease, she likes toys.

Painted or varnished stuff?

1 painted, 1 varnished.

dcp, thanks for the Star Contact tip. It's beyond me why both this and Android's default contact app decide that displaying the phone number is better than displaying the company name when there's a company name. But the searchability is a start.

dug out my "old" router, a d-link di-524, and the 198.162.0.1 address won't play and the official site says the product itself is no longer made and the tech support is discontinued.

Does this mean that I'm screwed, or is there a workaround?

For starters, doublecheck the address you're entering -- it should be 192.168.0.1, not 198.162... And make sure that you're accessing it from a wired connection, if you're currently trying wireless (from what I remember, D-Links won't let you in to the admin from a wireless connection at all)

There are a lot of sites out there that list the default passwords for various router models, and it's usually possible to reset to the default if you changed it later. The fact that they're not offering support sucks for looking stuff up, but there isn't usually much on a router that changes or needs updating.