Get Me To The Grand Canyon

St. John's Church, photographed with the AutoStitch Panorama app for iPhone. Hat tip to School Committee member (and Nixon confederate from bygone days) Noah McMahon

BlackBerry Jam

Better get an iPhone.

Clapton Is Y-----

This is sweet: Via NPR Music (the world's coolest iPhone app) I learned about a recurring series where obsessed, nostalgia-tripping geezers pressure malleable, desperate-to-please interns veteran NPR staffers invite their young colleagues to review classic rock albums they've never heard before. Here Beca Grimm gently patronizes "Disraeli Gears." Reminds me of the time I slow-danced to "Sunshine Of Your Love" in 19--... Oh, never mind!

Apple's Y2.011K Bug

So this is why I didn't wake up until 6:40 a.m. last Sunday and was slightly out of breath at the beginning of the 8 a.m. service.

We've Got A Sap For That

Be careful where you take your iPhone -- for instance, Canada.

Stalking Source

Hat tip to the "Daily Dish"

IT Phone Tome

BlackBerry vs. iPhone -- you decide. (This analysis gives short shrift to the amazing BB Storm.)

No BlackBerry Whine Served Here

Founding Nixon Center executive director Steve Clemons disses the iPhone:

I recently met a high-ranking AT&T executive who confided to me that he/she keeps a Verizon phone around at all times because AT&T's phone signal is undependable.

Despite hearing that advice, I allowed my staff colleagues at the New America Foundation to push me away from my old, always dependable LG Verizon phone to a new Apple made 3G I-Phone. I've had it for about four months, and I've been practically miserable ever since, at least in a phone sense. I never know whether I will be able to connect with people who call. I really can't do cell phone interviews on radio any longer -- and after I landed on the once aborted United flight to JFK on New Year's eve -- I needed to place a call to a transport company, and my call was dropped seven times despite all the bars being at "full" on the phone.

I have a very expensive piece of junk as far as I'm concerned -- and am on the verge of going back to Verizon. So while this may sound like personal bitching -- I can't believe that I can barely connect in this so-called broadband world we are supposed to be living in.