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Maybe his posts will sound better after 400 hrs. I'll change the length of his ban to 400hrs and see.

That looks about right. No idea if the web might be marginally faster. My latest annoyance is that my phone has been refusing for 2+ hrs to connect to iTunes to update apps. I've had to accept the TOS 3 times already, it would appear to be a wonderfully endless loop of update, inform me that the TOS has changed, accept new TOS, retry update, rinse, repeat. Oh, and the 4th time appeared to be the charm with accepting the TOS. Here's to hoping it really works.

That'd be great Doug. Looking at my schedule it seems unlikely I could do much on it for a couple of days despite my best intentions.

Guess I better get my ass in gear with the BOM...

Be happy, it's really bad. I just tried to call my wife so I navigated to contacts and selected her name, it took more than 10 seconds to bring up the actual contact information. And Ian witnessed how bad this was at lunch and can verify that I'm not joking with these time estimates. I'll try a full restore to ios4 tonight.

ios4 keeps getting worse. It currently takes 5 seconds or more to simply launch the messages app. Letters no longer appear as I type but lag way behind and all of a sudden words just appear whole. Even the home screen is not nearly as responsive as before. Thanks for killing my phone, Apple.

I don't understand the fuss about background wallpaper. The display is already so cluttered by the app icons that I can't imagine using something for a background that isn't some kind of formless pattern. Certainly not a picture of anything. But I tend towards the simple...

Thanks for doing all that research Craig, the idiots in the group definitely appreciate it!

Took about an hour to install on my 3G, so far it's been less stable. :S

I think I'll take Alan Shaw's word over yours with regards to break in.

I like it a lot. Now onto (just for Dusty): Sara Lov - Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming

I never bother trying on the first day, it's almost like ordering a new phone...

Probably because of all of the gnashing of teeth and panicking that happened when people got iPad shipping information that didn't update for days.

Crooked Still - Some Strange Country

John, sorry to hear about your ordering debacle but from everything I've read your case is a common one unfortunately.

88 with 50% humidity right now.

New Crooked Still? Dangit, I completely missed that. Guess I need to make a trip to the store too. Jin, I've been on a wicked Greg Laswell kick lately. You might check him out, I like his new album Take A Bow a lot. It trends towards the melancholy at times but never gets me down.

Heh. The party was great despite weather flown in from South Florida. It was hovering in the upper 80s with high humidity all day but thankfully we had 4, 10x10 tents to provide some shade in the back yard. The cake was a hit too, although the hot weather was not kind to the icing. Peter, those pictures from the hike are outstanding. That's one of the things that I miss about living in Southern NH, there isn't much to hike nearby.

Happy Fathers Day guys.

Yesterday I worked straight through from 7 to 3, ran some errands on the way home and started mowing at 4. Finished mowing at 8, ate a quick dinner, started baking cupcakes and a birthday cake for Lily's party (today). Finished baking and icing the cake and cleaning the kitchen at 12:30. Got up with Lily at 6:30 this morning, woke Mom up at 8 and then started setting up tents and chairs in the back yard. So very, very tired already. I wonder if snorting icing would help?

Happy birthday, David!

Welcome to Head-Case, Jason.

Jonsi - Go Solo album by the lead singer of Sigur Ros.

Payment sent. The rest of you slackers should check your email for an invoice from Tom.

Pelican - What We All Come to Need Saw a poster at my local music store today, some how I'd completely missed this.