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Zoe ,'War Stories'


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le nubian - Sep 26, 2008 1:19:23 pm PDT #7701 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

wow. I'm not sure I could work there.


moonlit - Sep 27, 2008 8:10:49 pm PDT #7702 of 25501
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

for educator types, jimi says I should post these links to do with opera's new web standards curriculum,

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Jessica - Sep 28, 2008 5:37:31 am PDT #7703 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's been muggy and rainy here in NYC, and my Treo is on the fritz again. (It's a little rheumatic - every time it rains, it continually tries to sync whether it's connected to the computer or not, and winds up running down the battery in less than a day.)

Right now the iPhone and the G1 are looking like my best options for an upgrade, except the iPhone doesn't have a real keyboard, copy-paste, or picture messaging, and the G1 is likely to be even buggier than my Treo since it's 1st-generation EVERYTHING.

(And I know picture messaging seems like a minor thing, but DH and I use it *all* the time to send each other pics of Dylan. Attaching a pic to an email isn't nearly as convenient.)

Do Blackberries have casual games available? I'd probably go nuts if I couldn't play Freecell or Sudoku during my commute.


Gris - Sep 28, 2008 6:24:23 am PDT #7704 of 25501
Hey. New board.

No interest in the Centro, Jessica? I've been happy with mine, as a Treo-lover. Yeah, I know Palm OS is still out of date, but it serves all my needs to this day.


Jessica - Sep 28, 2008 12:12:30 pm PDT #7705 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Is the Centro a GSM phone? I really see no reason to buy another CDMA phone if I can help it - I want something I can swap a local SIM card into and use overseas when I travel.


Sean K - Sep 28, 2008 2:28:28 pm PDT #7706 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Needing some retail therapy, I bought a 3G iPhone today.


Jessica - Sep 28, 2008 2:31:34 pm PDT #7707 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I found out today that I'm off-contract with Verizon, so I may do the same tomorrow.

Not that I have the money, but I'm really starting to loathe my Treo.


omnis_audis - Sep 28, 2008 4:10:18 pm PDT #7708 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Sean, you should tell Mark J that, see if we can finally convert him over to AT&T. He's been drooling over the iPhone for awhile, maybe he'll buy your 1st gen off you, if you haven't dropped it too many times ;)


Sean K - Sep 28, 2008 4:40:23 pm PDT #7709 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yeah, about that...

I actually walked in to the Apple Store intending to just buy a replacement set of iPhone ear buds. Why? Because some time yesterday, the ear speaker and microphone stopped working (ie, when holding it like a phone, I couldn't actually use it as a phone). I could only use it as a speaker phone.

About thirty seconds after I walked in, I decided I needed more than $25 worth of retail therapy.

Which is all to say, Mark J is welcome to buy my 1st Gen, but I wouldn't feel right charging him very much for it.


Sean K - Sep 28, 2008 5:48:10 pm PDT #7710 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

My damned iPhone, and the new Phonesaber update, tricked me into buying Force Unleashed: Mobile.

But since I thought I was paying for some of the upgrades to the Phonesaber, which means I was perfectly willing to pay $10 for a silly iPhone Lightsaber, I'm not going to complain too much.