Thanks to the small child for standing in line at the AT&T store (yeah, she got paid). Thanks to her we were #9 in line. There were about 70 people in line when we finally got in. They made a huge deal out of telling us that we were not allowed to open the boxes in the store, then let people in 3 or 4 at a time. They would ask how many you wanted, what size, what accessories, then attempt to check you out. That's where things got sticky.

The AT&T servers started having serious difficulties almost immediately. At our particular terminal, it took 40 minutes to check out. Yep, that's right... 40 minutes. Things kept "breaking" and otherwise not working properly. We FINALLY got out of there with our sealed bag (yep, the bags were self sealing so you couldn't open them in the store).

As we were leaving, the announcement was made that they were now sold out of 8 gig models.

So, getting home, I plugged in the iPhone to my powerbook, it opened iTunes, it synced everything including my email accounts, found my home network and connected to it, and uses the same type interface as the iPod and AppleTV in iTunes to sync music, videos and photos.

I do NOT like the keyboard yet. It's going to take some time to get used to since I type with my thumbs when I am using teeny tiny keyboards like this. This one won't really let you. It wants your index finger. Feh. Perhaps they will fix that in the future.

Course, since I don't have SERVICE in my HOUSE, I can't say how the actual PHONE part works yet. Heh heh. Ironic, no?

Update: The phone part works well when there is signal. Problem is, it's AT&T so the signal totally SUCKS. They don't drop calls because you can't PLACE them. *bah*

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I'm still laughing :-)

Beware the Magical IPhone:


Beware the Magical IPhone
06.27.07 | 2:00 AM
There's been a lot of media attention directed at the iPhone recently. Some of it has been positive, some negative, but none have come forth to acknowledge the obvious, sinister context of Apple's latest toy. This device, portrayed as a harmless product of science, is obviously designed to introduce our children to witchcraft and sorcery.
The central pentagram in Apple's vile altar of temptation takes the form of "gestures," hand movements used to control the device. Wiggle your fingers at the iPhone and it does your bidding. Does that not sound familiar? Is that not one of the main ingredients in the blasphemous bisque of sorcery?
Keep in mind as you consider this dire news that Apple is also one of the main proponents of so-called "voice recognition" technology. Every Macintosh computer they ship includes this "feature," allowing you to command your computer using the power of your voice, much as Harry Potter commands demons to do Satan's work.
Another feature provided by the iPhone is the ability to play videos from anywhere in the world. Think of your child gazing into this device, viewing events taking place elsewhere on the planet and even looking back through time. The device itself has a "friendly" rounded look to it. Is this Apple's way of introducing children to the concept of a crystal ball? Will the next iPhone be a perfect transparent sphere? Very likely.
In addition, the iPhone has the ability to sense the environment around it. For instance, it can tell when you've turned it on its side. No doubt you're thinking, "You move it? Like a magic wand?"
It's worse than that, much worse. Certainly there is a similarity to that obscenely phallic symbol of a sorcerer's Satan-fueled power, but it goes much further. The iPhone's ability to sense motion, proximity and light is clearly designed to make it seem less like an object and more like a "familiar spirit," a sort of witch's helper explicitly banned by Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
Not convinced? The iPhone also includes a built-in web browser, one that has no limitations on the sort of filth it can access. The internet is well known for being willing to answer any question posed to it, at least from an atheist perspective. Right-thinking people realize that knowledge should be limited to that which is healthy for the mind and soul, but the internet does not agree.
And finally, what do iPhone users and witches have in common? Contracts. The iPhone requires a two-year contract with a cellular-phone company, while witchcraft requires an eternal contract with the Devil, but the parallels are clear.
Now consider the implications of all this. A child growing up in this secular age is introduced to a little technological "friend" that it can control with gestures and words, one that lets it look at other places and times, one that is happy to answer any question, especially if the "correct" answer denies God and the Bible. Shortly thereafter the child -- your child -- is approached by a witch or wizard with similar "devices" like magic wands and crystal balls, which require nothing more than the signing of a contract. Is there any reason the child would resist these overtures?
This is no coincidence! Apple is not working alone under some sort of cloak of secrecy. This has been planned for decades, if not centuries! Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, a noted secular humanist, gloated over this sort of "innovation" when he revealed that future advanced technologies would make people unable to distinguish them from magic.
The media are not the watchdogs of these evil devices that are being shoved down our throats and the throats of our children, they are Satan's salesmen!
Avoid the iPhone! Avoid all of Apple's products, and Microsoft's as well! If you're reading this online, it may already be too late.

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From Groklaw

Tanya Andersen Sues RIAA and SafeNet (f/k/a MediaSentry) for Malicious Prosecution:


You probably want to read this complaint just posted on Recording Industry vs. the People, Andersen v. Atlantic et al [PDF]. I think we may be watching history being made before our eyes. The worm is turning.

Tanya Andersen, the plaintiff here, is the single mother in Oregon that the RIAA prosecuted for the last couple of years and then "on the eve of summary judgment" dropped the lawsuit with prejudice. Her counterclaims remain and are restated here and supplemented. It will soon be joined into a single case. So, what started as Atlantic v. Andersen has now turned around, and it is now Andersen v. Atlantic and the defendants are the music companies making up the RIAA -- Atlantic, Priority Records, Capitol Records, UMG and BMG -- the RIAA itself, the Settlement Support Center, and SafeNet, formerly known as MediaSentry. She is asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the RICO Act, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.

Update: So many of you asked about copyright misuse, and what the consequences can be, I found a paper for you to read, "Competition Law and Copyright Misuse" by John Cross and Peter Yu. Here's the paragraph I think you are looking for:

The independent doctrine of copyright misuse ... focuses on whether the owner attempts to avoid some limit imposed by copyright law.... Rather than criminal penalties or treble damages under U.S. antitrust law, the sole "penalty" for copyright misuse is the inability to sue the affected party for infringement. That penalty applies only with respect to the particular licensee bound by the provision, and exists only for so long as the misuse continues.

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I had enough of 12-14 mpg of my lovely AMG ML55 SUV. It was a great truck, except for the palpable pain I experienced with each fill up. The other significant annoyances with the truck included brake replacements ever 15K miles or so (not the way we drive... this is "normal" according to the techs), and the use of proprietary crap telephone technology, essentially locking me into a vintage 2000 motorola StarTac, that could not be upgraded without using the functionality of dialing through the center console.

I kinda went to the other end of the spectrum and bought myself a green Prius named Booger. I've had Booger for almost 1000 miles thusfar and it's been great. We're getting approximately 47 mpg (could be more if I drove it less like a regular car), it has bluetooth connectivity that pairs with most cell phones, allowing me to sync my address book with the car and use hands free. I can pair up to 6 phones with this set up. It also have DVD navigation, upgraded sound system, etc. One of the most hilarious things it has is a 'backup camera" that activates when I put the car into reverse, showing up a fisheye picture of what's behind, along with the "beep beep" backup sound like I was driving a garbage truck :-)

Now, the car DID have its flaws. The ones that drove me most insane were the nanny features, where someone at Toyota decided to force me to conform with their definition of safety. If the car was in motion, certain important features are "greyed out" of the touch screen display, including not allowing you to use your phone book to dial out, or to dial out using the pseudo keypad. You CAN, however, dial out on your speed dial numbers, or 911. The other major disabled feature is changing your destination or programming a destination in your GPS.

The idea that someone else decided for me what I could do and could not do in my own car that I paid for, and they would make my safety decisions for me, really ticks me off. If my passenger wants to reprogram the GPS, who are they to tell me I can't do that? If I'm lost in SE DC at 2 am, and I want to call a friend to help me figure out how to get out of the area, I shouldn't have to pull over to do that.

Luckily, enough engineers own the Toyota Prius so that there are detailed instructions along with lovely pictures on how to disable these ridiculous lock outs. Between their instructions and Wes' expert installation, the mission has been accomplished and Booger is now damn near perfect :-).

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Well, when I broke my iPod, I figured that I'd just wait a week and get the iPhone. After all, that's what Apple is advertising you can do.... saying the iPhone is their best iPod to date. Sounds great, eh? Cept for one thing... the biggest iPhone you can get is 8 gigs. The biggest iPod is 80 gigs. My music collection (and I'm not nearly finished digitizing it all) is about 20 gigs. That's not a terribly happy thing.

So off to the Apple store yesterday at Tyson's Corner. The place was packed! Not only the Apple store, but the whole damn mall. It was a gorgeous day yesterday and all these people were inside shopping! UGH! We noticed that all of the employees were wearing T shirts with the date 6/29 on them, heralding the upcoming iPhone release, so I asked what the plans were for it. They said they knew nothing whatsoever about the release itself, and they were pretty annoyed that Apple was keeping them in the dark. They said that all they know is that something happens at 6pm 6/29. Mumble.

So, I figure that with a bit of duct tape, I can put the iPhone and iPod together and make a phone with enough storage to make me happy :-).

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Boing Boing: Photography banned in Silver Spring, Maryland:


Security guards in a Silver Springs business district are enforcing a "no photography" policy, under the false claim that the street in question is private property. The Peterson Company, which manages the buildings on this DC-area street, claims the right to protect their brand. Not to be dissuaded, photographers have contacted NowPublic contributor Bill Adler (he of sippy-cup fame) and formed a Flickr group to post photos of the area in defiance of the ban, and a protest is being scheduled by area photographers. this is the latest in the ongoing trend of private guards enforcing frivolous or nonexistent laws in the name of "security".

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Black Lab Drives Owner's Car Into River:


SAGLE, Idaho (AP) - Bad dog. Charlie the black lab is in trouble after driving his owner's car into the Pend Oreille River. Owner Mark Ewing had just returned home from picking up a pizza Wednesday evening. As he walked to his home, Charlie jumped into the car through an open window, and apparently knocked the vehicle into gear.

"He somehow got the car into neutral," Ewing said. "My car just went boom, down an incline and into the drink."

Ewing could only watch as his Chevy Impala sank into the river. No dummy, Charlie jumped out of the window as the car went downhill.

"There's nothing weirder than looking at your car cruising down your driveway when you're not in it and seeing your dog jump out and then watching your car go splash," Ewing said.

Actually, things got a little weirder when the tow truck driver showed up.

Before the driver dove into the water to hook the car up to his truck, he asked Ewing to hold his dentures.

"My car's in the drink, I've got dentures in my hand and this guy Keith from Clyde's Towing goes swimming," Ewing noted.

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Widescreen YouTube on AppleTV!:

Last month Apple anounced YouTube for Apple TV, and it was released on Wednesday. I downloaded the update and played with it a bit and I quickly realized there was a definite lack of quantity of available video. There was some speculation last month that not everything would be playable or converted to H.264 versions required for AppleTV, but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why some videos are available in AppleTV and most aren't.

You can sign in and view your listed of videos marked as favorites, but of the 30 I had previously marked, only 3 were available to play. I went to my computer and marked off another 10, and only 3 more were playable. I did some searches and found usually only 5 or less results for stuff that normally returns 50 or more results.

But the biggest surprise was seeing widescreen video properly handled in the YouTube player on AppleTV. One of my biggest peeves with viewing YouTube on my computer is that anything ripped from a HDTV (16:9 widescreen) source gets smushed into the default player's 4:3 aspect. I was hoping YouTube would someday make their flash player adjust to original source size.

If you do a search for "rodrigo y gabriella" (they're a cool acoustic guitar duo that mix classical and rock techniques) in AppleTV, you only get this one result of the 300+ you get in a computer browser search. But if you play it, it fills the screen of your HDTV with a fairly high quality version of their live set. The odd thing is on your computer, you'll get a vertically compressed version by default and even when shown full-screen.

So it appears the YouTube player for AppleTV only sees a minority of total available YouTube video right now, but of those available, the AppleTV player properly handles aspect ratio accordingly, playing both standard and widescreen aspect ratios. That's something even the browser-based player can't seem to handle.

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Internet radio to go silent on June 26?:


Blog: The latest front in Webcasters' protest of elevated royalty fees is a "day of silence," and some larger stations are expected to participate.

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Judge Goes Easy on Lawyer Who Made 'French Fries' Comment About Her:


U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff opted for leniency in the case of a prominent Chicago lawyer who told her she was "a few french fries short of a Happy Meal." She decided not to bar McDermott Will & Emery partner William P. Smith from practicing in South Florida bankruptcy court. Instead, Isicoff ordered him Wednesday to take an online course in professionalism administered by the Florida Bar, even though he's not a Bar member in Florida and was practicing as a visiting lawyer.

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I've been very very busy of late with many insane things, which has caused posting here to be not as regular as I'd like. My dad has quintuple bypass surgery and a carotid artery roto rootering, a very good friend had his quad bypass fail and needed stents (damn glad they could even DO the stents given what happened). Other friends have had other weird things happen to them, and I was cast in a play that is eating my life but is great fun.

I have also created the Form Apology Generator which will help me generate all of the apologies I will need for this absence :-). Have at it.

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Missing Dog Found 430 Miles From Home:


FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - A basset hound that disappeared from its California home in December has been found 430 miles away in Arizona.

The dog, named Fred, was found by an employee Wednesday in the parking lot of the Second Chance Center for Animals in Flagstaff.

The next morning, staff members with the shelter found a microchip in Fred that let them figure out he was registered at Riverside County Animal Control.

The shelter contacted Fred's speechless owner on Friday.

The owner said Fred disappeared after she moved to Riverside in December. She didn't know how he could have ended up in Flagstaff.

Paul Fink, a veterinarian at the Flagstaff shelter and a pilot, has offered to fly the dog home to his family.

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MIT students demonstrate wireless power transfer:


Mark Frauenfelder:

RayK says

In an experiment, a team from MIT were able to power a 60W light bulb from two meters away. Calling their demonstration 'WiTricity,' the researchers believe that a system is possible that could send electricity to your battery powered devices within a room sized space.

It's a Tesla-dream come true.

WiTricity is based on using coupled resonant objects. Two resonant objects of the same resonant frequency tend to exchange energy efficiently, while interacting weakly with extraneous off-resonant objects. A child on a swing is a good example of this. A swing is a type of mechanical resonance, so only when the child pumps her legs at the natural frequency of the swing is she able to impart substantial energy. Another example involves acoustic resonances: Imagine a room with 100 identical wine glasses, each filled with wine up to a different level, so they all have different resonant frequencies. If an opera singer sings a sufficiently loud single note inside the room, a glass of the corresponding frequency might accumulate sufficient energy to even explode, while not influencing the other glasses. In any system of coupled resonators there often exists a so-called “strongly coupled” regime of operation. If one ensures to operate in that regime in a given system, the energy transfer can be very efficient.

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WASHINGTON -- A computer failure in the nation's air-traffic control system caused untold flight delays Friday, the Federal Aviation Adminstration said.

A computer system in Atlanta that processes pilots' flights plans and sends them to air-traffic controllers failed late Thursday or early Friday, FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said. The agency rerouted the system's functions to another computer in Salt Lake City, which overloaded due to the increased volume of data, magnifying the problem.

The FAA could not immediately calculate the number of flight delays caused by the problem, which was made worse by bad weather, Spitaliere said.

Although the computer problem was fixed Friday morning, its impact lingered on into the late afternoon, especially in New York, Spitaliere said.

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Don't ever go there. Leave it safe for ME!

Ocracoke Island Named Nation's Top Beach :: WRAL.com:


RALEIGH, N.C. — Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best. The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr. Beach" - Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman - didn't know where to find it on the map.
"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here," Leatherman said from Ocracoke, the first beach not in Florida or Hawaii to earn the top spot in his annual ranking of the nation's top 10 spots on the shore.
Technically, it's Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach that is the nation's best. But Leatherman said there's little that separates those 300 yards of postcard-perfect sand from the rest of the island, almost all of which is protected from development as part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
"Here, you have 14 miles of unspoiled, undisturbed barrier beach," said Leatherman, director of Florida International's laboratory for coastal research. "Where do you find that in the world?"
Ocracoke is at the southern end of the Outer Banks, the fragile chain of barrier islands along North Carolina's coast known as the "graveyard of the Atlantic." Accessible only by boat or private plane, there are only about 800 full-time residents of the island where the pirate Blackbeard met his untimely death at the hands of the Royal Navy in 1718.
"People shouldn't come here to play golf, and don't come here for the Hilton spa or something like that," Leatherman said. "They're not going to find those things here. What you will find here - it's like going back in time with very quaint, small inns. It's my favorite getaway island beach. And it's definitely that."
Ocracoke has been a favorite of "Dr. Beach" for years - he ranked it No. 3 in 2006 and No. 2 in 2005. By winning this year, it will be retired from consideration, along with other past champions.
"Obviously, it's a great honor to be put up at the top of the heap," said Julia Howard, the administrator for the Ocracoke Island Museum and Preservation Society, who has lived on the island for 35 years.
Leatherman ranks beaches on 50 criteria, using a 1 to 5 scale. No beach has ever gotten all 250 points, and Ocracoke ranked somewhere in the 230s, he said. The sand, for example, isn't lily white, so it lost points there.
He considers only swimming beaches, which leaves out those along the Maine and Oregon coastlines, where the water is just too cold. Beaches with lifeguards get high points, as do those that balance the natural environment and the built environment.
"I'm just a stickler for detail," he said. "There's no perfect beach by the rating criteria, but there are so many great ones."
Earning the No. 1 ranking on the "Dr. Beach" list is usually a tourism booster. When the north beach at Florida's Fort De Soto was named the best in 2005, Leatherman said, the number of hits on a related Web site jumped in one day from 1,000 to 10,000.
But the remote nature of Ocracoke and its place as part of a national seashore should spare the island's 25-foot sand dunes, topped by sea oats, from an onslaught of beachcombers.
"When things are inundated with people, it isn't quite the same place any more," Howard said. "We hope people who do come here would honor our beauty and keep it looking the way it does for a long time."

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From CircleID:

ARIN Provides Latest Word on Need to Move to IPv6: Will Anyone Heed the Warning? (Does anyone care?):


NetworkWorld is running an article today that talks about the announcement from ARIN (the American Registry for Internet Numbers) of the ARIN Board resolution calling upon ARIN to no longer be "neutral" in the IPv4 vs IPv6 space and instead work to actively encourage migration to IPv6... Until now, ARIN and the other RIRs have generally been fairly neutral in the IPv4 versus IPv6 debate and have not shown a preference in allocation, but this announcement from ARIN shows the first signs of change. More...

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Worst "Company" in America:

The blog "The Consumerist" apparently has its readership vote for the worst company in America. The blog writers then suggest ways to improve the customer service at the nominated company. Why do I know about this? Because this year, the readers picked as worst the pointy end of the Cartel's jihadist sword: the RIAA.

Of course, the RIAA isn't really a company, it's a trade organization. And customer service really isn't on their agenda. What is on their agenda is passing favorable legislation, like laws creating the crime of attempted piracy. In order to pass laws, you need sock puppets... excuse me, members of Congress. Who, in turn, need money. Lots of money, something the RIAA has and gives out.

Consumerist has therefore published a list of "50 Politicians Who Take Campaign Money from the RIAA", along with their contact info. Because we can't influence the RIAA directly but in theory we can influence these fifty people.

The amounts listed are really surprisingly low - Orrin Hatch got a mere USD 6000, a pittance for this once-powerful sock puppet's dutiful service. There are also some disturbing names on the list, such as Ed Markey, whom I'd expect to have better sense than to accept money from extortionists.

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I got a brandy new LG VX9900 phone from Verizon. My previous car had proprietary hands-free tech that would only pair ONE certain phone to be useful through the center console. That phone was a 2001 vintage Motorola. Now I was free to upgrade my phone! W00t! Given that the Treo isn't very happy with the Prius (which is really something that Palm ought to fix), I got the LG.

Here's where things get stupidly complicated. The Treo allowed me to upload ALL contacts to the phone book stored in the car. This is a good thing, because the LG will not sync with the Mac, thus I can't put all of my contacts onto the LG as yet. This is ridiculously stupid, since the VX9900 is really a cool phone, with a full sized keyboard that you slide the top part of the phone away to use, a REALLY nice screen, and other relatively cool features. It is not as flexible as the Treo, but it's also MUCH less expensive. So why do I have two phones? Good question. I bought the Treo with GSM which only Cingular/AT&T has. BUT, it has really lousy coverage near my house. Verizon has great coverage. Why not dump the Treo and use just the LG? Well, because I want an iPhone which only comes with Cingular (blah). When the iPhone comes out I will sell the Treo on ebay or something, and see if the iPhone will interface with the Prius AND iSync, however the Verizon phone will still be very useful for the many coverage areas in which Cingular no workie.

The upshot of things is that since my contacts are loaded into the car, I can use either the Treo OR the LG in the car by choosing the appropriate little icon on the touch screen. I can then access the phone book that is already loaded into the car, regardless of which phone I use. I can update the phone book in the car through the Treo. Hopefully with Leopard, iSync will suddenly begin to support LG phones (please please please).

In our next installment, I will talk about the world's lamest feature of the Prius - the backup camera. LAME! Also the coolest feature - gas mileage. I'm averaging 43 mpg driving the car like a regular car. That will increase as I drive it like a hybrid. Joy :-)

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This wonderful blog documents the case of RIAA vs. Ms. Del Cid. Finally, someone has the money to hit back at those scum dogs and file some seriously well thought out counterclaims. Perhaps we will see the end of RIAA extortion.

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This was it... enough was enough. I loved my ML55 but it was time to go. 12 mpg was just no longer acceptable, and I had filled it with gas for the last time. Bah, and again humbug I say....

I had been looking at cars and researching cars for the past few months, and finally decided that it was time. They had the car I wanted in Springfield, so off we went to get it, and to trade in ye ole 55. So I got me a nice green (in more ways than one) Prius with the Star Trek console. And verily thus, we brought it home and named it Booger. Perhaps I'll think of a better name later.

Anyway, while we were at the dealership, the sales critter attempted to show me his brilliance by pairing my phone with Booger's on board bluetooth. DENIED! Hmmm...how could this be? Bluetooth is a standard, and should be implemented as such, carrying data blissfully through the air and into the innards of the Booger. But no... Upon further investigation I found that I must update my Treo to a more peachy version of Bluetooth in order to partake of the Booger's lovely touch screen. I thought, "how tough can an update be?" I learned.

First you wipe out ALL of the data on your phone, resync it to your computer, create a new user, download a bunch of files, upload the files to the phone, have the phone install the files, delete the new user, re-pair your phone with the computer, re-upload all your information, etc. etc. This process took a LONG time.

When I finally got through all of that and took the Treo out to Booger, I was hopeful that all the cool touch screen stuff would work and I could transfer my phone contacts from the Treo to the Booger and all would be well. Uh, no. One must "fool" the Treo into doing the right thing so that the bluetooth is even recognized by the Prius (making a phone call while the Prius is 'looking' for the Treo seems to work). Once that part is done, somehow the Prius then doesn't see the contact files you're trying to send from the Treo.

So how come Palm can't fix their damn phones so that you don't have these ridiculous issues? This be annoying! So I started doing a hunt to find out which phones are supposed to be completely compatible with Booger. Then I found they also had to be compatible with iSync, AND usable on Verizon. This part is no fun whatsoever. I finally found a phone that might work, so I ordered it to try to find out. We shall see.

For my next trick, I'll post about how the car won't allow you to dial or use most features of the navigation console while the car is moving..... There is a work around.

Despite Palm's inability to do the right thing, Booger is still pretty cool. Gas mileage on the way home, driving it just like a regular ole gas car critter thing = 42 mpg. w00t!

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