iPHONE BATTERY

If money is no object, I think you’ll really like your iPhone.  I really like mine.  But it (or AT&T) drops a lot of calls, and its battery life, now that I’ve had a chance to use it for a while, is not remotely “8 hours of talk or 250 hours of standby or 7 hours of web-browsing.”  At least not for me (and, yes, I let it fully drain and recharge a couple of times).  The Energizer bunny it simply is not.

BUNNY CURSOR

Speaking of whom . . . David Bruce: “A rabbit that really likes your cursor.”

RUNNING OUT OF JUICE

And on a diametrically more serious note, here is the latest from our Comptroller General.  (“Long-range simulations from my office are chilling.”)  America “always” reinvents itself when it runs into obstacles.  But Rome “always” did, too.  The citizenry needs to pay attention for democracy to work.