Thanks

no problem!

Ordered the damned phone. Am sheep. Will be back in a coupla days to nag everyone about what stuff I need to get.

(Jess, you may be interested to know that the Pre looked cool enough to make me look hard in spite of having really disliked multiple past Palm experiences. But I digress. You, as a Palm-lover, should totally wait until June, and I will gnash my teeth at your copy-and-pasting prowess then. And I'll still hate teeny-tiny physical keyboards.)

One of us. One of us.

Option-hypen is an en-dash. Option-shift-hyphen is an em-dash.

Option-hypen is an en-dash. Option-shift-hyphen is an em-dash.

Huh. I knew that was traditionally the case, but they looked identical when I tested earlier. It may be that the font I was typing in doesn't include both.

Running your car 12 hours on idle should do it no harm. Myh dad was a mechanic and the subject came up....

I once left my car running when I stopped by my office one cold winter night, and got engrossed on the Internet (this was 1994). 8 hours later I came out and found the gas gauge on the floor (figuratively. I made it to the nearest gas station 6 blocks away.

You, as a Palm-lover, should totally wait until June, and I will gnash my teeth at your copy-and-pasting prowess then.

But I already bought an iPhone before the Pre was announced!

OTOH, the fact that it's exclusively on Sprint is enough to make me not regret missing the boat. I can count on one hand the number of worse customer service experiences I've had than Sprint - the phone would pretty much have to poop rainbows and predict winning lottery tickets in order to get me to switch back.

So i have a question, it's not a pressing question but I'm not sure if this is just the way things are or if there's a way to fix this--

I'm running a dual monitor set up on my laptop and with a LCD monitor (you'll remember from monday (perhaps) that the laptop monitor went gray scale, now it's fine) -- I just noticed that colors don't look the same. On the LCD things seem to skew more.. I'm not sure how to describe it.

I took a picture/screen shot in second life and I was looking at Second Life on my LCD monitor and the background color looked like a purple on the pinker side. I'm not sure what color it would be called, but defintely pink undertones.

When I looked at the picture on my laptop the background is a darker purpler. The color is listed as Grape and on the laptop it looks grape.

I looked up purple on wikipedia trying to get an idea of shades and the Medium Violet Red looks red and the Electric Purple color looks more like Orchid and Orchid looks pink.

Is there anything I can do to make the colors look the same on both?

Car started up (though it took a few seconds to turn over), and I made it to a gas station. All is well. Whew.