Excellent, now there are 5 choices:

My Princeton Review GRE teaching days are returning to me.

Official widget analogy for tech blog:

1) Choose the answer choice that most matches the analogy below:

40GB Connection: Laundry ::

a)iPhone:Doom
b)Linux:antivirus
c)Porsche:radio
d)billionaire:lotto
e)Vader:force

And, Vizu Polls is calling...
I shall cut and paste the poll html...

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Such GRE implications with these analogies:

1) 40GB connection:laundry

a- billionaire:lotto
b- porsche:radio
c- vader:additional force powers

any more analogies to make 5 choices, the typical number?

What will they think of next?! :O)

Alas! The only serious iPhone rival for mod-ness and sleekness is experiencing operating difficuties.

The Razr was the first, but quickly fizzled. Along came the iPhone and it was like Grunge. But, after the fact, it is remembered that there were powerful concurrent trends and influences such as Achtung Baby and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Both Apple and RIM have incredible psyche-market share and I think Apple could steal all away if they can engineer a iPhone II to look and function just like the iPhone, but have an ultra slim sliding keyboard, ala the AT&T Tilt or any number of other smart phones. That way, corporate, fashion, macgeek and techie would all be fully satisfied. Release the SDK and let a golden age begin.

Of course, RIM has a similar, but lesser opportunity to do the same, because Apple has already created the much loved style of the iPhone: that is intangible. RIM would have to create a 'Style' for its Blackberry, and that would involve uncertainty and risk.

In any event, as a proud owner of the Pearl, I am not experiencing difficulty at the moment, but will check it out now to make sure.

Let's keep the comments relevant, please....

almost had ya! :O)

As is so often the case, the process of discovery is more impressive than the discovery itself.

Marvelous!

You are right.

Even from a selfish perspective (that is, if I wanted nothing more than to promote my site), you are right:
Indirect promotion is much more likely to be effective with a sophisticated audience and community than spamming, more Banana Republic than Old Navy, more Nieman Markus GQ advertisement than Dave's ebay system informercial.

Subtly promoting brand awareness through indirect marketing efforts is kind of similar to selfless messaging with a discreetly placed backlink:
I think every type of product from car to clothing to video games does it these days.

Thus, I have to figure out how to set up profiles and, perhaps, use typekey, as suggested, to integrate and centralize.

I guarantee that you will not see a post from me with a crassly placed backlink...to better promote our site, and to better promote web decorum, I will go the way of the 21st century and Web 2.0.

OK, it is getting embarassing posting all this on Engadget!

I hope you do not dislike us. We are really new to this. We have a lot to learn in the way of manners and genuinely mean no harm.

TTYS. :O)

Peter

Jeff says: "Add your link to your profile. If people are interested in who you are, and what your site is, they'll click on your NAME, and from there be able to get you your site."

I honestly do not know how to do this and can't seem to access my profile. :O(

Jeff,

I am quite new to this, so maybe our content seems irrelevant to some, and I may also need to learn more about internet manners, but we are not pointless to all, as evidenced by the feedback thus far, calling it quite unique and interesting.

Quote: "i have no interest whatsoever in what you like to tell people you do for a living."

Like to tell people I do?
I have little to prove, of course, but could, if challenged and offended, produce a field service agreement to absolutely verify this fact.
Proud and patriotic, but humble, and not patriotic in a beer swilling, flag waving sense, more in becoming a better person in order to better serve self and nation. :O)

And, our site is wonderful and no amount of hatred and negative energy can change that. Enjoy.

Speaking of 'get a job', has not an intensely passionate online persona such as yourself more enlightened things to do than attack people who have done nothing to you?

And, for what it is worth, I am but a fit, athletic, 37 year old, but my fellow blogger, Paul, on the other hand, almost unique at 39, has already been contacted by a few dermatologists and skincare lines looking for him to represent them!
Yay! (again, verifiable, if challenged, though in only one case was it a result of our site and not an agency).
Thus, we have a unique, almost irreproduceable, vantage and feel that we should sound our barbaric yawp over the rooftops, and are hurting noone in doing so.

One final note: we are sensitive.
I will sleep on your cruel comments and see if they have merit: whether my posts are as vapid and insubstantial as you say. If so, then, make no mistake, they will improve.

Gadflies are not necessarily negative. Some good will come from this, doubtlessly :O)

Peter J. Lupo Esq.
antiaging4geeks.com

The impeccable gadget preferences of the Japanese cannot be overstated.
There is something about this color that not only affects mood, but also rearranges the cosmic forces to combine asian rock gardens with cloudy skies and the most hyperbright glitz of Tokyo.

Color selection and object arrangement is, feng shui obviously, very imporant there, and it is not difficult to see why, especially when I feel the cool grasp of the gauzy mist and the glimmering stars convoluted and wound into the ancient gems and digital paradigms of beauty conjured via smartphones and broadcast throughout Japan and the universe.

Anyway, I love my PSP! :O)
It counterbalances the iPod Touch and AT&T Tilt, resulting in a trivium of mobility, a ufologist formation that gyrates uncontrollably about my being as I waltz throughout the prime material plane.

Peter J. Lupo Esq.
antiaging4geeks.com

Jeff says: "blah blah blah, here's my link.

get a job."

My happy zen has been dented by unwarranted anger and hostility. :O(

I am a lawyer in telecommunications:

My current 'job' is helping cities locate and acquire the sites necessary to launch Post-9/11 First Responder's Networks (for emergency response personnel such as fire, ambulance and police), to better protect said cities from 9/11-style tragedies.

It is a proud and patriotic assignment, one that I undertake with pride.

What, pray tell, do you do, Jeff?

Peter J. Lupo Esq.
antiaging4geeks.com