It has been almost 3 years since I got my last cell phone, a Blackberry 8800. While it was nice, the UI was very sparse, and dare I say ugly. Ever since the Palm Pre was announced earlier this year, I have been itching to get one. Unfortunately, they are not available on my current provider. My wife, her parents, and I all share a family plan on the T-Mobile network which allows us to keep our cell phone charges way down so if I was going to get a new phone, it would have to be one that T-Mobile offered. When my wife's phone suddenly died 3 weeks ago, we started looking at new phones and finally settled on the new MyTouch phones from T-Mobile. My wife does not use 90% of the features on her phone because she finds it a bit challenging to figure out. To help solve this problem, we both decided to get the same phone, so that I would be able to help her out if she had any questions or issues.

It seems that everyone is jumping on the OpenID bandwagon - kinda.  First came WordPress.  Then Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and now Google.  It seems that all the major internet players now officially support OpenID in one fashion or another.  In almost every case, the major players have really just stuck their toe in the water by becoming OpenID providers.  This means that your accounts on all of these services have now become valid OpenID tokens.  This is great news but it is not enough.

For most users, getting an OpenID account has never been a problem.  Anyone who wanted to use OpenID could easily have signed up with MyOpenID, MyID, ClaimID, Verisign or many other OpenID providers.  The real challenge for most users has been finding a site that accepts OpenID.  The list (also another one here) of sites that accepts OpenID is growing.  However, if you peruse those lists you will notice something missing.  Namely, what you won’t find is WordPress, or Yahoo, or AOL or Microsoft or Google on the list of sites accepting OpenID.

I recently installed the Pinnacle Studio version 11 upgrade and found this while while going through the ReadMe file:

7. Windows XP: Switching User During Capture. Never do this. Very bad things will happen.

Sometimes though I think that being a little too succinct with warning messages can have just the opposite effect of the one intended.  When I saw that I immediately thought...  Maybe I should give it a try just to see what happens.  To me, this warning is about the equivalent of you mom telling you not to do something and when pressed for a reason says "Because I said so that's...