Waiting...waiting...

Mac OS 10.5.2 installing...taking forever...why show status bars when they don't show progress?

On the plus side, Hillary is screwed.

Hllary self-funding her campaign?

If this is true, she is in some serious doo-doo.

iPhone wants

After seven months of iPhone-and the fact my brother just got a blackberry-I am wondering what additional things I want for the iPhone to fill some gaps in my view. This also will assuage my brother that I am not blind to the shortcomings of any given device.

In no particular order:

• MMS (please!): I can't tell you how many times my family asks "did you get the picture I texted?" to which I respond "my ($600--first night buyer here, amazing interface, multimedia phone) can't do that."
• Ability to not downscale pictures sent by email: iPhone has a 2MP camera. Why is there no button that lets me pick how large the picture is that it sends? It automatically sends it at about 1/2 resolution. For sending to flickr this is dumb.
• A real scientific calculator application. And it needs to be reverse Polish notation as well. With real functions like powers, nth-roots, and (gasp) trig functions. And a web-based calculator does NOT qualify here as they are too s-l-o-w. There are a lot of us that want more than the four basics.
• Calendar syncing to Google calendar on the fly to the Calendar application. Hard-syncing to get a remotely one-way synced calendar is dumb. Let's get some activity in the calendar application. Heck, I'll even pay for .Mac if it only works with that. Just give me live appointment editing!
• To-do application.  Nuff' said.
• A replacement font for comic sans in the notepad. Like Helvetica--without the nasty hacks necessary to make it so.
• Enhanced Exchange server support. I want the hooks to get into work remotely for all that it entails.
• Voice dialing.
• Shortcuts to the bluetooth on/off and wifi on/off settings. Too many clicks required.

I am hoping the new developer's kit brings some of these to life. If so, the iPhone will be everything I hoped when I stood in line on 29 June.

Admission

I actually read some of the New York Times now.

This is mainly because it is written well.

It is definitely not written right though.

Compare to the StarTribune, which is not either of those things.