Looks like the forum’s cookies are broken on the forum again. And again, nothing has changed so I don’t know why it happened. I might start looking into migrating to bbPress again because this is just getting ridiculous.

So we made it back home! Not too many delays on the way home (unlike the trip out to Cali). We even somehow made it to the airport about 6 hours before our flight boarded (oops). I’m almost over the jetlag and working on sifting through my photos from the trip and resizing them, so keep an eye open for them on Flickr. I’ll also follow up with a journal entry summarizing the trip.

I wish there was an iPhone app that could turn off particular things to save battery life with one touch of the screen. Perhaps you can configure it under the General Settings to specify what you want turned off/on like 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and/or GPS. Then on your home screen you can touch one icon to turn it all off when you know you won’t use it to extend your battery life. When you want to use it, press the icon again and it all gets enabled with minimal effort. I’d pay a couple bucks for that.

I will be going on a few trips out of town over the next few weeks. This will delay any updates or major modifications to the website until sometime in August or maybe even September. I have a lot of catch-up work to do for school as well.

I was lucky enough to not have to wait in line for too long (only 3 hours) to get my 16 GB iPhone this morning. Unfortunately, by the time I got through the door they were out of the 16 GB black. So I ended up grabbing one of the last white ones - which I’m actually starting to really like. It seems to do really well when it comes to fingerprints and smudges on the back. You can only notice them on the silver apple logo. The plastic case actually feels really nice in my small hand. Congrats to KC for getting the LAST ONE at the store. He got a few comments and dirty looks on his way out of the store.

The iTunes store is (of course) having issues due to the demand, so we were allowed to bring our phones home and finish activation from home. I’ve been trying to activate mine for almost 3 hours now, and I’m not even sure that it’s fully activated. It does seem to have partially activated… weird. At least now I can make/receive calls with it.

So far I’m really happy with the phone. My only complaint (if you can call it that):

After bringing it home and activating, I tried to connect the iPhone headphones - and at first they didn’t seem to fit! Apparently they do actually fit - but they’re REALLY snug. You have to give it a good push to get that extra “click” - and that doesn’t give me the warm-n-fuzzies.

Once you get it fully connected, it doesn’t fit smoothly because it’s no longer recessed, and the back of the phone is curved. It’s the same for other headphones so it’s no just the Apple-supplied ones that do this. Not too big of a deal, but I would have expected better from Apple. Funny thing is that the new headphones fit very nicely/easily on the old iPhone.