He was 8 when I was born, and our parents told him that he could name me.

You got lucky. My cousin is 6 months pregnant with twins and asked her 7 year old daughter what names she liked for them. Her answer? "Poo Poo and Pee Pee." DF's response, "Hey, middle names and everything!" Poor little boo is not ready for baby brothers.

Not anymore. But maybe a free Centro.

Unlocked, please!

weird mp3 voice recognition question - my craxy associates don't want to transcribe a sound file ... and are looking for voice recognition software that they can use to process/transcribe it instead. Beyond the ::lazy! lazy! bad! bad! :: wheelspin that I'm stuck in, does anyone have experience with this? Suggestions?

I don't think that any voice recognition software is going to be satisfactory for a voice that it hasn't been trained on. I use Naturally Speaking, and it is very accurate now with me, but with a another voice it makes a mess of things.

but with a another voice it makes a mess of things.

this is what I'm expecting. and then a panicked phone call to fix it.

I suggested escriptionist.com too - but they balked at the price (ie - not free). which gives me the 'you get what you paid for' escape.

good grief, why don't they just transcribe the damn thing.

You know what's annoying? None of the iPhone apps have free trials. What if I download an app and it sucks?

Signed, $10 for Tetris seems like a lot if I can't try it out first.

Oh, and I just read a review that confused me - you can't play a game and listen to music at the same time? 'Cause if that's the case then I can give up on the app store right now and stick with Palm games on my Treo. The whole *point* of games on a mobile device is to have something to do with my hands while I listen to podcasts on my commute!

yeah, that's uncool. there are trials for most apps for my phone on handango.

Another Luddite question from me--I'm trying to watch Dr. Horrible, and after wiping my cache and cookies and updating my Flash version, am still unsuccessful. I'm thinking about loading Firefox just to watch it, and know nothing about how to load it, what to do once I load it, or how to operate it. (I've only ever used Internet Explorer with my Comcast modem.)

Any help would be appreciated!

Firefox is just a browser, very much like Internet Explorer as far as browsing. Just download it, install it, tell it you'll play nice, and open it up and go to the URL you want to visit. You can open other URLs in tabs, so that you have some idea of where you're at, rather than opening up new windows. You can do that in IE now, too, so I don't think on the surface you'll see a big difference.