I was on Sprint for many years and I don't remember ever having a dropped call (I didn't know what the hell people were complaining about when they said that). I also had great reception even when traveling. The day I got my iPhone 3G I knew exactly what people meant.

Call quality was crap comparatively and I had calls drop several times a day. It has since gotten better with updates but I still have the occasional call drop and shoddy service. I can totally relate with this story and had my service continued to be that bad I would've switched back too.

For people who can't believe someone would switch to multiple devices, when you're relying on your cell phone to just work, it's definitely worth "downgrading" to get that reliability.

I get that it's only 3 bucks but I'd still be pretty pissed if I bought it and it expired in a month. They don't do a real good job of making sure you know it's not going to work after the season is over.

"...will provide breakthrough service for the remainder of the 2008 season..."

Ok great. I haven't purchased an app yet that will expire. How would I know that?

After the mlb.com DRM fiasco they won't get any money from me.

I agree that this is indeed a threat to the Apple TV. The price, for the box and service, is cheaper. A lot of people already have Netflix which makes it really easy to justify. Also, the only reason I haven't got an Apple TV is because I'm not ready to make the plunge to HD. It's a big deal that this box includes HD AND composite/s-video outputs. That makes it hugely more marketable to people that have no interest in moving to HD.

I've been using TVHarmony Autopilot which will take shows off of a TivoToGo'd TiVo and convert them to non-DRM'd mpeg files. It can even strip commercials. It's still in beta but it works great! Very easy to setup and use.

http://www.tvharmony.com/products.php

Got my new black MacBook yesterday. Installed Bootcamp/WinXP and the wireless card is indeed an 802.11n. It's listed as an Atheros ar5008.

"The AR5008 solutions, demonstrated earlier this month at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), are the first to be based on the draft 802.11n specification confirmed last week by the IEEE."

via http://www.atheros.com/news/xspan.html

I just got Half-Life 2 installed so we'll see how it does.

Really? He's been hanging on because of an audio editor? Why wouldn't he use Peak or Sound Studio? Sounds fishy to me.

Tivo Series 2 and a Media Center machine

Gone - Ben Folds

The install took me about an 45 minutes but they sure made it easy. If you've already installed XP using the previous method make sure you wipe your drive and start over. What's really cool here is being able to partition your drive for Windows without wiping it. That's a huge plus. I chose to format the Windows volume as Fat32 that way OS X can read/write to that partition.