What u get 4 A? Ban republic 40%off today PLEASE.dont make all her gifts PRACTICAL!:-*

Everything [sic].

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My iPhone has been acting strangely over the past week-and-a-half or so. I don’t think it’s an AT&T issue; it’s happening on wifi and five-bar 3G alike. Most disturbingly, it’s happening with basically every application I use that connects to the internet. Gmail App alone has about five or six different error messages.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Verisön or at&t?

Out of the blue. What? She can barely use a cell phone. How does she end up typing an umlaut?

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What being wareballed and hackerballed on consecutive days looks like.

A side business is really not that bad. Having a limited amount of time every day to work on something or even just having a few days a week to work on something really focuses your energy… When you have 10 hours per week, those really matter. You can’t screw around with ten hours; then nothing gets done that week. Having less time is really a huge benefit to most people because if you have all the time in the world…you’re going to spend your time or waste your time on frivolous features that you don’t need anyway.

—David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails creator and 37signals partner

The Nexus One looks amazing. The G1 looked amazing, the Droid looked amazing, the Droid Eris looked amazing, and now the Nexus One looks even more amazing.

The kicker is that it’s looking like you’ll be able to buy it without also getting a two-year phone contract to go along with it, albeit at a much higher upfront cost. But, given that Skype and Google Voice are readily available, that might not be such a bad thing.

Kevin Tofel, writing for jkOnTheRun, has a similar outlook, except using the now-Google-owned Gizmo VoIP service in lieu of Skype:

I’m betting on the Google Voice, Google Talk and Gizmo integration because if it comes to pass, it could be the beginning of the end for cellular voice plans.

Also:

Sure enough, I found the T-Mobile Total Internet plan, which is $39.99 a month and offers up to 10 GB of data per month. With the plan, you can make voice calls, but you’ll be paying by the minute.
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These days, the voice component of a smartphone is more of a necessary add-on rather than the primary function.

Here’s a comparison of the cost over two years of owning a subsidized Nexus One with a phone+data T-Mobile contract ($79.99/month) versus an unsubsidized Nexus One with a data-only T-Mobile plan ($39.99/month), a Skype subscription for unlimited calls to mobile and landlines anywhere in the US and Canada ($2.95(!)/month), and a SkypeIn number ($30/year).

So, despite paying hundreds of dollars more upfront in buying an unsubsidized Nexus One, you’d recoup the initial difference in cost after just over 10 months, and after two years, you’d save $482 (even more after taxes)—well over the original price difference and nearly the cost of the phone itself.

I can’t believe I’m saying this as an iPhone owner and zealot (my wife won’t be able to, either), but I could easily see myself doing this in light of AT&T’s suckitude, my growing frustration with phone companies in general, and my near-complete dependence on Google Apps.

Marco Arment posted earlier today his Dogs Waiting For Their Humans-style photo. This is mine.

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It’s 9:32pm and apparently sunny in Chicago.

Whew. Close one. In the process of attempting to upgrade nosugrefneb.org to WPv2.9, I very nearly lost everything on this site. I was simultaneously upgrading another WordPress-powered blog, and I accidentally overwrote this site’s wp-config.php file with that one’s file. Oops. Of course, I hadn’t backed anything up. All other upgrades have gone smoothly; why would this one be any different?

After a few dozen Google searches, a few frantic emails to Bluehost, and a period of calm realization that everything was gone and/or I’m not experienced enough to figure out how to really fix it on my own, I remembered that in the process of installing Fever, I had to enter all my database info.

Bingo! Oh /fever/firewall/config/db.php, you’re my hero.

Little did I know that when I installed Fever for my feed reading, I was also getting a repository for my database login information. Suffice it to say, I now have database and blog backups scheduled daily and have all my login info inside 1Password where it should have been all along.

James Duncan Davidson, photographer and one of the creators of the new Luma Loop, on its recent launch:

Exciting times. I can’t wait to see what comes next.

Oh, I don’t know…maybe a lawsuit from BlackRapid, who makes a virtually identical product in the R-Strap?