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I have been using my iPhone as my sole mobile phone for a full month now. I think that is long enough to know why the iPhone sucks. The problem is that in some ways is it the absolute best mobile device I have ever had.

Notice I called it a mobile device and not a phone. That brings us to #1…

As I writer, I spend hours (well, sometimes just minutes) at a keyboard and that just runs counter to today's modern-now-a-go-go Internet.

A short snarky sentence with a link is hot. Prose is not.

You’ve heard this before but here it is again - with an ending this time.  A while back a friend’s father-in-law was beaten and robbed, left with a fractured eye socket and broken hand.  He didn’t have insurance and my friend and I didn’t have enough cash between us to pay for treatment either.

Oo

Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, wrote on his blog tonight about an extraordinary event that should be of great interest to opera lovers everywhere.

(If your eyes glaze halfway through, at least read the last bit, okay?  Pinky swear you will.)

So, I wanted to make a clarification after yesterday’s post.

Y'all, I sent this video out to 134 people this past weekend. I don't recall seeing such a funny music video.

Yes, I've been away from the keyboard* for quite a while, so there's certainly some catching up to do:
The Boots Del Biaggio saga is now entering the Long Slog, a period of time in which both a bankruptcy and a criminal investigation will take place. I suspect it will take months before the whole tangled web gets unwound, but as John Glennon points out in his Tennessean blog today, the signing