@Aaron Hemmelgarn: I respectfully disagree with all of you. I, too, am able to check my email remotely. I use Imap so everything is synced up. and i have my own domain name, which I can check using my service provider's site; I can also route it through gmail for when I am traveling and I don't have my computer…

As someone who uses Mac's mail program and would use Outlook if I could, I do not understand why people use Gmail as anything but an email address. I hated webmail during the hotmail days, and the fancy interface of Gmail does absolutely nothing to change that, and in fact, makes me bananas. I also can't stand that…

Write Room and Scrivener. They do it the best. I do Scrivener when I am doing large-scale stories with multiple interviews and need to drop quotes in and move around and then move to full screen for the writing process; WriteRoom when i need something simple and need to block out everything. Though I could just use…

@DexterHaven: yes, she said they were mostly smarter than they were given credit for—she also said that previously to B. nothing got done, because the Italians were infamously waffling and unable to pull the trigger on anything. It's interesting to hear a more on-the-ground perception of stuff.

I do not know enough to speak authoritatively on the subject, but I was having dinner with a German woman last night who lived in Italy for 8 years and she said that B. was very "clever" as a politician, and for all his antics, he had done a lot in terms of promoting women, smart women, into prominent positions in…

@guitarherozer0: I love you.

@pettiblay: ghey.

I wasn't there so I can't really ascertain to the assholishness of this guy. I do think he should have turned off the device, without argument, but i will state that I've had a similar problem a few years ago when I had Treo and I was just reading a webpage when we got the call to shut stuff off, and when I tried to…

I'm horrified that I actually know, in real life, at least two of the people in the people in the Dickheads video.

That is all.

people, this is how it's effing done at a rock and roll show.

for some reason the voice apps hate my voice. accuracy is so-so.

@corporateoppressor: unfortunately, that is not an option. i have to remind myself that turbulence generally doesn't mean that the plane is going to drop out of the sky. i look at the flight attendants and usually they are okay and don't seem bothered. then i order another glass of wine, down it with three more…

@pauljones: at the risk of sounding like an idiot, I get terrible terrible anxiety during flights and have panic attacks. when turbulence is sustained and super rocky, might initial feeling is to flee. I literally want to get off the plane rightnow. panic is not fun. the very instinct that happens during a panic…

@stackstack: also: is there a way, if your droid is starting to lag, to find out what the culprit is via a tool sort of like activity monitor or console log on a mac?

@stackstack: i did that but i still have no concept of how to do it. i've spent hours on that board... but i don't do any programming in real life and they kind of jump around with lingo that i feel like you have to know...

@stackstack: hmmm that's good. but hopefully we'll get updated soon. I am too new to know how to root it and do it myself.

Another question: I have Epic, (2.1.) and have my phone plugged into the speakers via a tape deck/ipod cord thingy. Right now, phone is great for listening to music concurrently with watching my Navigation GPS tell me what to do; however, when someone calls me, it goes to Speakerphone via the car stereo speakers,…

@stackstack: doesn't work like the voice dialer on blackberry with the motorola H700 series. need to be able to push the button in my headset to activate the phone's voice dialer without touching said phone. tried vlingo and the recognition accuracy has been miserable so far, but even if it worked, it still doesn't…

Question: is there anything that allows you to push the button on your bluetooth headset and use voice-activated dialing, ala, the Blackberry? I have the Epic and just going crazy without this