Next month analog television will come to an end and the era of digital television takes over. God, I really wish that didn’t make me so cranky.

For a little over a year I have been watching all the networks advertise the deadlines for the switch to digital television. The ads about the conversion have been on longer than that but they really upped their obnoxious factor in the last year. They have told me my good, old analog signal will go the way of the dodo bird and in its place I will have more channels, better sound, and a picture so good I’ll be able to see every pore on the faces of the news anchors. In theory, it seems like a veritable Xanadu, improved network television arriving in America just in time for a recession when millions of Americans are reassessing their home entertainment budgets.

And this would all be lovely. If it worked.

Call me cynical, but I have my doubts about how well this conversion will actually work. On the plus side, unlike the failed metric conversion the digital conversion is reliant on our deep affection for entertainment rather than our ability guess whether kilometers are more or less than a mile or what we should wear for 26 degrees centigrade. My concern is not that people won’t buy ridiculously expensive new televisions, subscribe to cable or satellite services that raise prices faster than a Vegas loan-shark, or that the rest of us poor slobs will be able to get our mitts on converter boxes. No, my concern is that digital television won’t get any better than it is now, ‘cuz so far the experience is not stacking up well with the hype.

Armed with a not-new television, a converter box, and a very intelligent person to help me, I am now receiving the much hyped digital television signal. It sucks.

Adjusting and setting the damn thing up is, apparently, just the first step. I have found that despite being in a prime location and being set up correctly, the digital signal is very finicky. The adjustment that gets me a clear picture during the day doesn’t always work at night. If the wind is blowing at all, forget it. Half the time I’m doing a cross between the wave and tai chi trying to unfreeze the screen when it glitches up.

Tonight I was watching the season finale of American Idol and it sounded like all the performers had a stutter because the channel was glitching out so badly. Oddly enough, that actually worked in Rod Stewart’s favor. His voice is not what it used to be. When I watch CSI I am constantly surprised at who they cuff at the end because with the way my crystal clear picture freezes and cuts out the vastly improved sound I miss half the plot.

But my frustrations with how digital television affect my viewing fall largely into the category of annoying. What scares me is how this signal, that cuts out when there is a slight breeze, will do during severe weather when I’m hoping the National Weather Service will tell me whether there is a large funnel cloud barreling toward me is going to redeposit me in Oz.

And it would be nice if my poor set up was the only one afflicted with a bad case of the glitches, but I have seen it happen even with new televisions. My dad spent roughly what it would cost to buy a kidney on the black market for a sleek-looking glitch factory. I made the dire mistake of walking into the room while he was watching it and it took him 15 minutes to get the picture back.

I’m all for progress and scientific advances in the cause of mindless entertainment, but this looks a lot more like a lateral move from where I’m sitting with my pixilated picture. Makes me want to click my heels together and say, “There’s no place like analog.”

Sorry; this is a terrible thing to do. (post something without saying anything) But I don’t have time to write - have to mow my lawn before someone here shoots me

Anwways, this website (links below) is worth checking out. It’s  a wealth of information for anyone who bothers to look beyond anything.

http://www.searchlores.org/   <—the website

http://www.searchlores.org/swansong.htm  <—the man who started it.

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/realicra.htm  <—a particularly nice place with a particularly interesting piece on slavery and supermarkets…

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/slaves.htm <—interesting

Sometimes it’s nice to take a break from the regular stupid shit that we are constantly inundated with. Any of the above links will take you out of stupid mode for a while, incase you need a break.

I’d like to *link* some of the comments he made in his “swansong” (above link) to some of my opinions about the fucked up medical industry in the usa, the piece-of-shit pharmeceudical industry ( biggest drug cartel in the world) which is really running this country (in my own ignorant, illiterate , unresearched opinion), The bastard judge in Minneapolis who, in a court ruling tookaway the rights of the parents of Daniel Hauser to chose their sons medical treatment (for his cancer - do they have insurance? I wonder…who’s paying for that ruling? and what will this ruling be a precident for?) and the dumb ass people in general who allow themselves to be lead by the nose,  questioning nothing…but, like I said, I have to mow my lawn…

I’d begun hearing catch phrases like, “I got poked” - “Look who’s on my wall.” and “Tag this photo.”  It was a strange, new language; a language I didn’t understand nor cared to.  More often, these strange - almost coded - little messages would rear their ugly heads in normal conversation accompanied by smiles and giggles.  Whatever they were talking about brought them joy.  I still didn’t care. 

“How many friends do you have?’

“I don’t know, but ’so and so’ just asked me to be her friend, too!”

Each conversation was part adolescent bliss and part emotional fulfillment.  What is this “thing” that has everyone so giddy?  Why is everybody talking about it…doing it and ridiculing me because I’m not?  Peer presure at it’s worst…or best, if you’re one of the addicts.  I avoided it like the plague for the same reason that I too am now addicted to it.  It can’t be done in moderation.  It’s all or nothing!  Sure, you think you’re “just checking it for a quick sec” and 12 hours later you’re dialoguing with three online friends, tagging a fourth friend’s photo, while adding seven new friends that you haven’t seen since you had acne and braces.  No question - FACEBOOK IS THE NEW CRACK!  Granted, I’ve never indulged in the magical white pebbles of death, but I do know people who have and this has the makings of something just as consuming…but in a good way.

What is the appeal (of FB not Crack)?   Let me try and explain it as best I can without sounding as if this is the only reason why it’s appealing and yet it pretty much hits the nail on the head…for me at least. (Whew.)

1. Non-threatening Self-expression: It let’s the world know who you are, who you’re with, what you’ve done and what you’re into now - without you having to actually TELL anyone.
2. Convenience: I can chat or not.  I can tag or not. I can answer or not (right now) and nobody gets hurt, because they’re interacting with 50 other people, simultaneously, who are making the same easy, snap decisions.
3. Connecting without obligatory investment/commitment: There’s nothing like getting “befriended” on FB by someone from your past and being pleasantly surprised…for a second; only to remember that you were never that close to begin with.  No harm, no foul…add another friend to the tally.
4. Reconnecting: Probably one of the greatest reasons for this site to exist. Friends who were friends THEN and after one million years of being apart, are still friends NOW as if you were never apart. (”Okay, it’s been 20 years…so where were we…oh yeah…so Debbie never liked her and I was all, no way…and she was like, yeah way!“)  Well, you get the idea.
5. Family: Can you say - ”Quick updates!”  No more of the annoying - “Let me speak to Jimmy and then put Ray on, then grandma and let me talk to the twins after that.”  Suddenly, your unlimited minutes become very limited with a side of cauliflower ear.  With FB…TAG ME, BABY! 
6. Networking/hooking up: Probably the lamest reason to FB.  You should do an about FACE and BOOK on over to linkedin or eharmony if you want a job or a date.  You’re killing the lighthearted buzz with all your desperate neediness.   And last but not least…
7. Bragging rights:  “How many friends you got?”  One gazillion and 3…TOP THAT!

I’ve said it before, but I HATE IT SO GOOD because it calls to me in the morning and at night.  Now I know why the caged bird…takes crack and sings.  FACEBOOK!

In closing, as incredibly genius as this magical white pebble of networking is, it will NEVER replace the comforting release of a long conversation, the thrilling rush of a warm embrace, the goose bumps from a long slow kiss, the touch of a familiar hand in yours or the satisfaction of sharing a good, hearty laugh together.  NOT EVEN CLOSE.

Stay connected…for real.

Benman out!

     Here in California, water is precious.  And from the way sprinkler systems go off at all hours in my neighborhood, running off into the street and sidewalks, you’d never know we’re facing a water crisis.  I’m sad to say my neighbors are generally thoughtless about this issue, perhaps because they aren’t paying the price for water as it should be valued in this region of the country.  Other than NOT running our sprinklers in the winter AT ALL, and only twice a week in summer, another way we are addressing this problem is by replacing our old water heater.

     A few weeks ago, we found out that our water heater was reaching an old age of 11, which is nearly twice the age of a water heater that needs replacing or else you risk leakage or “explosion.” When I heard THAT, I thought of riding a tidal wave through my garage, down the driveway, and into the street.  When they drained it and pulled it out of our garage, they said it weighed three times its normal weight from the sediment of hard water!  There must have been a foot and a half of sediment in there! 

     Tankless water heaters heat water as it is needed, not so it is stored whether you use it or not, so it saves on the gas bill.  Our other problem, as many homes have, is that it takes several minutes for water to get hot.  (Think turning on the shower while you stand there or brush your teeth or something, wasting, wasting, wasting gallons of water while you wait… and wait…) So, we also got a recirculator!

A recirculator is a pump that is installed near the farthest water source from the water heater.  It recirculates the water within the pipes until it reaches temperature without a single drop going down the drain!  Now, we press a button that turns on the pump (and it’s very quiet!) for 2 minutes, and when we turn on the water, it takes 3 seconds for the water to come out HOT!

Shocking & Informative Video, A Must Watch !

First and foremost I would like start off by saying that YOU called tech support for help with a problem so please tell about your problem and nothing else. Don’t try and blame that company for any sort of electronic issue you have experienced in the past decade.

That virus you got on your computer was not installed by the Internet. You did it!!! Probably while you were getting your rocks off to what’s going to be the next episode of To Catch a Predator! Yeah you know that popup you got to chat with local singles that somehow had the same city as the one you live in. Also just because you had to take a class on Microsoft Office while you were attending community college for your Accounting degree does not make you qualified to determine what exactly your problem is. Nor does it allow you to even give your opinion about it. Just keep it to yourself we are just going to do one of two things, ignore it, or politely tell you how retarded you are so that we don’t fired. I find it pretty funny how all of you edumacated folk come to the same conclusion. I know the problem is the modem. Convenient how that is the device that the ISP is responsible for and the end user normally doesn’t have to pay to have replaced. I can safely say that in my 4 years of working in the support field I have heard the statement “I know it’s not my computer” 5000 times. Well guess what fucko. It is your computer! Congratulations you just went and spent more then likely well over a thousand dollars on a device you don’t know how to use and fucked up to the point that Bill Gates would rather gnaw on the barrel of a Smith and Wesson then attempt to fix. That is like buying a car and then giving the person at the body shop a hard time because YOU crashed it into a tree because you were too lazy to learn how to drive. Also just because you own a Mac doesn’t excuse you from knowing how to use it either. On that note I would like to congratulate most of you Mac owners for spending an extra $750 so you won’t get a virus and that reason only.

I’m sure anyone who has ever called Internet tech support has heard the statement “Unplug the power cord and plug it back in please”. Frankly I don’t give a fuck if you have dedicated the past 3 weeks of your life to unplugging the fucking thing and plugging it back in, and you are on the verge of turning into a serial killer. You’re going to do it again, and if you are an asshole about it chances are I will make you do it a second time just to piss you off. Also don’t play the “It was just working” card. Your car was just working 5 minutes before it broke the fuck down now wasn’t it? Shit breaks, and most of the time you don’t know when it will happen. So yes that statement is true, but so is the one that goes something like “Well it’s fucked now”. So please let’s just except the fact that is has broken and move on to the part of fixing it. Instead of spending the first 10 minutes of the call arguing over why “It was just working”.

This part is for people who have ever called tech support because they have had an issue with their telephone. I don’t believe you that you have a sick relative, because you and the other 30 people I talked today have some sick and dying relative in Zimbabwe or some shit. If I hadn’t heard that one 2000 times before I may believe you, but me believing you isn’t getting your shit fixed any faster.

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There are few subjects that incite passion as does discussing the economy. The United States is in a world of hurt and sinking fast and no amount of money can save us. But just maybe… there is a way.

Think back ten years, or fifteen, to when Intel, AMD, Dell, HP, Westinghouse, GE and numerous other large companies announced that they were building plants in other countries and closing the ones in the US. Remember NAFTA was supposed to level the playing field and help Mexico deal with its unemployment. Remember China was given “favored nation” status by Reagan as his next to last act as president. He later pocketed a $2 million speaking fee in that country, for a 45-minute speech.

As a nation, we import more goods than we export (arms and weapons is not included), giving us the largest trade deficit in history, and its still growing. How did we allow this to happen? because the manufacturing lobbiests have a lot of money to throw around and did. They bribed our Congressmen into passing the legislation, selling out America for a few dollars. It was the American people who suffered as jobs were sent overseas, to India, Philippines, Cayman Islands and other countries. Millions of Americans lost their well-paying jobs.

There are several things we can do, if Congress would just get off their collective, lazy butts, to reverse this. Number One would be to tax any American corporation having plants in another country until they scream from the pain in their accounting department. Levy a tarrif on any product imported, any product. Only reduce that tarrif by the amount that that same country imports from the US. Don’t give tax breaks to companies for simply being in the US, tax them the full amount. If they want to lower their expenses, try automation but retrain those put out of work.

Even as we struggle, more than fifty countries still get a handout from our Treasury; its called foreign aid, or economic aid, or by some other name but it all means the same — free money from us. Slam the checkbook closed, put a padlock on it and let those countries fend for themselves, let them develope their own economies and sustain themselves. Israel alone receives $3 billion a year under a number of different programs, all at the first of the budget year, unlike other countries who have it spread out over the year. We wouldn’t need to send half a billion dollars to Mexico to fight their drug war if we simply closed our borders and used the military to patrol the air and sea lanes. We have agencies knowledable in patroling our states, let them do their jobs. Enforce the drug laws we have on the books and put the drug dealers out of business for good.

Make it worthwhile for Americans to buy American, appliances, cars, homes and groceries at reasonable prices, not extortion prices. Control the pay of executives, no man is worth $35 million a year for the title of CEO, control the amounts banks can charge on accounts (hidden fees are a killer) and regulate the business practices of brokerage firms but most of all, rid ourselves of the Federal Reserve. The FR is just bankers controlling the flow of money, and getting rich doing it.

It sounds simple, doesn’t it? All we need is a president and Congress with the backbone and courage to do it. Will it happen? Probably not.

 

SUBTITLE:  

The Analysis

or (more likely)

ANAL-ization of THE COMPLAINT

 

Complaining (in and of itself) is an Act.

 

However, the Discography of THE COMPLAINT itself is an Art.  Absolutely so.  It’s shrouded in Layers of pensive Thoughts, Behaviors and Attitudes that are as individualistic as The Person who airs them.  Even each ‘Airing’ (Rant or Rave) has a Degree of Severity (not Civility) in it.  Letting lose and letting go ‘of a COMPLAINT’ is a Method of De-Stressing much like an Alcoholic finds (temporary) Comfort (Northern or Southern in Locale) in a Keg of Beer, Glass of Wine, Shot of Bourbon or  Bottle of Champagne.

 

However, Whine-ing can be short-lived and THE COMPLAINER (for the most Part) is a Constant.  Said COMPLAINT remains unleashed. The Degree of Sentimentality may be lessened.  The Emotion may be temporarily gone, but as for its Physicality, a COMPLAINT is easily discernible and is like a Pimple:  It pops out and explodes when it wants to.  Bottling up a COMPLAINT can lead to dogmatic  Internal Problems that can be costly in the long run.

 

TRACING THE COMPLAINT:

The Core Group revolves around:

 

YOU:  Your COMPLAINTS, Grudges and Maddening Experiences can range from breaking a Nail to losing Millions in an ailing Financial Downturn.

 

FAMILY:  How Family Members annoy you can be summed up in a COMPLAINT (if not more). SO much for the ‘Extended Family’ that sociologists are touting.  If you are rated as a prolifically compulsive Writer, at times like these, the Merriam-Webster Synonym Dictionary (found at www.m-w.com) comes in handy and automatically eases THE COMPLAINT.  That is:  By finding an Outlet to spill your COMPLAINT may be therapeutic.  The Act of Reading itself (as in Reading others COMPLAINTS on this Website) acts cathartically.

 

FRIENDS:  You can choose your Friends and not your Family. INSERT:  And Experts wonder why so many People (including Adults) run away from Home. To continue:   Many Friendships break up (as Marriages do) because too many COMPLAINTS are lodged against that Person, Place, Things or Circumstances that becomes too unbearable.  After a certain Point, Intolerance sets in and it just does not pay (on and for any Grounds of Sanity whatsoever) to keep The Friendship alive.

 

AT WORK:  Bosses ignite an entirely new Level for THE COMPLAINER.  With a Degree of Power in place, no one really complains about what The Boss is doing.  Jeopardizing One’s Job (especially in this precarious Job Market) is definitely Taboo and not a wise thing-to-do.  This may be the leading Reason why World Economics is as degraded as it has become the last 3-4 years.  The Leader (in any Organization) is The Boss.  The Followers (in any Organization) are the Employees. A Class System again is put into place.  The above Subjects warrant Grounds for ‘COMPLAINTS.’  After a Month passes, an Assortment of COMPLAINTS begin to build.  Blowing The Whistle on The Boss is now an Industry of its own Accord that’s seen on every TV & Radio Channel, Website & Blog across The Planet. It’s a Travesty of Justice and Goodwill when COMPLAINING does not get to do what it does best, but is breached for the Advancement of a Cunning Few.  One Party always remains that is left in Despair with solidifying COMPLAINTS. 

 

Locating an Outlet that finally filters the Air (that acts as a Purification System) is a sure-fire Way to lay a COMPLAINT to rest, even just for The Present, as many COMPLAINTS have the Tendency to occur and resurface.

 

In a post-industrialized, techno-World that began at The Turn of The 1900s, Individuals began thinking (which is Step #1 to the complete Compilation and Registering of a COMPLAINT) along these 4-Lines:

 

Am I pretty or handsome enough?

Am I slim enough?

Am I smart enough?

Am I rich enough?

 

JUMPING INTO THAT TIME MACHINE:  Back in the Days of ‘Little House on the Prairies’ of Kansas in 1850, there weren’t too many Teen Magazines to thumb through; Colleges to attend or Diet Books to peruse.  The Amount of Time “getting down, dirty, nasty and spiteful about yourself was severely limited, as Survival (defined on Page 1187, Column One of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ©1999)  in a new Territory was topping the TO DO List. Nothing else was of that utmost importance. Looks, Body Image, Brains or Money were not in their Top Ten List.   No petty and insignificant Acts/Actions that many (if not most) COMPLAINTS are structured around Today were posted on the TO DO List of 1850.  Their Value and Material System was plainly based on a different Set of Criteria than ours is. 

 

The Degree or Richness of a COMPLAINT is also interesting. After all, how good can a COMPLAINT be if there isn’t anything to judge it (up) against?  Would a COMPLAINT even be an Actuality if there was nothing to compare it to?  Time and Personalities are the Two (2) Factors that color a COMPLAINT and give it its Pizzazz - all the more, adding to its Dimensionality.

 

Is there not a slight Difference between COMPLAINING that the last Chocolate cream-filled Cupcake was eaten compared to a Ponzi Scheme that left a Family barren, broke, homeless and forlorn?  What’s considered serious to One Person may not be to another.  A serious COMPLAINT to one Person could be the Brunt of a Joke to another.  Besides Belief Systems, add in different Cultures, Borders and Political Parties and then, the Gamut of what is COMPLAINARY paints an entire different Picture. 

 

This Verbiage also brings up a few Questions and Facts:

 

How long does or will a COMPLAINT last?

 

How stressful can a COMPLAINT be before it garners Anxiety, a Heart Attack or Stroke?

 

And, of course, the Universal Differential that’s portrayed as COMPLAINT Severity, i.e.: 

 

Does Money buy a COMPLAINT-Free World?

 

As an Example:  Do those Individuals in Darfur (who are starving that managed to get through the Carnal Slaughter, Rape and Genocide), have time to complain.  If so, do their COMPLAINTS ever end? Whom do they complain to?   How long can they exist with this Clamor in their Lives?  Tracing a similar Plight, in the 1960s, Children in Biafra were starving.  Did their Pleas go up against Deaf Ears?  If not, then why is there such overt never-ending Poverty, Despair & Pain  in The World (now some 50 years later) if there’s Plenty of People (dealing in Goods & Services) and Organizations to complain to, whose Goal is to react in Kindness and Generosity?  How are COMPLAINTS registered at Customer Service Departments and what Percentage of COMPLAINTS are alleviated yearly? 

 

Can a COMPLAINT be heard and eased by a Greater Power than Mortal Man?  In other words, for those whose lives are based upon (a) Religion:

WWGCA:  What Would God Complain About? 

 

In other words, insulated in our own Home Units (whether it’s a Villa in the South of France, a Farm in Georgia, a Trailer Court in Kentucky; a Time-Share in Cancun or a Co-op Penthouse in New York City, COMPLAINTS permeate ‘The Scene’ and lodge themselves in The Psyche of Man so that Discussions (as these) can be aired on Websites as Richard’s.

 

A BEFITTING RITE: 

Many Global Religions and 12-Step Programs hold a Ritual each December 31 to cleanse themselves of THE COMPLAINTS they previously experienced as Arrogances and Troubles that followed them through the ‘Last Year.’  The Process is to list those Grievances on a Page of Paper and then toss them into a Vat burn or burn them up in a Fire(place).  Therefore, they are symbolically removed forever and  no one is haunted by them any longer.

 

AND THEY ARE CALLED ‘BIRD-BRAINS!’

No Research (to the best of my Knowledge) was ever done to see if a(ny of these) COMPLAINTS ever return, like the Swallows to Capistrano that arrive like clockwork on March 19 (after leaving Goya, Argentina (beyond the Andes) on the 18^TH of February, flying some 7500 Miles in 30 Days, at an Altitude of above 2,000 feet). Do those Swallows complain as they are ardently keep flying away from vicious Predators, Airbuses, Jet Aircraft and Miles of Smoggy Pollution on their Way to their Destination?   That, at most, is an ingrained Tendency.  COMPLAINTS are learned or acquired although some surface due to personal Traits or unforeseen Dramas.   Removing them appears to be more of a Psychological Cleansing.  And, if it alleviates The Problem – THE COMPLAINT or The Issue (at hand) then rest assured before long, another COMPLAINT will arise.   However, the Person is then free till the next COMPLAINT arises and can get something important done instead of ‘stewing’ in his or her COMPLAINT.  Seen another Way:  The Dynamics of the COMPLAINT has done its Job and served an important Purpose in The Daily Life of 21^ST Century Man. 

 

One Thing is for certain.  The COMPLAINTS a Person has at age 10 are totally different than those of a 30, 50 or 70 year old.  The Structure of a COMPLAINT grows more complicated as an Adult straddles through his/her Decades and with what(ever) he/she embodies, faces and knows.

 

Simultaneously, Location & Financial Standing (or Means) also play significant Roles in ‘The Everyday COMPLAINT.”  Historically and prehistorically, it was (only) Cave Man who had just one COMPLAINT. Their COMPLAINT was surviving The Day and making it through The Night without being eaten by large, man-eating Carnivores.  What was a COMPLAINT to Neanderthal definitely was not a COMPLAINT to Contemporary Man.  For the most Part, no large woolly Mammoths frightfully stampede  or lurk through the Cities or Forests of our Planet today.  Occasionally, We will see a Grizzly Bear or Deer check-out a backyard garbage can for a morsel or two if their Food Allowance has been jeopardized.  The Viewing of one’s Conditions is directly linked to THE COMPLAINTS We have, hold and pass along to Others.   

 

TOO MUCH TALK – NOT ENOUGH ACTION: 

How the COMPLAINT evolved:

Early Man did not complain about who won or lost the SuperBowl; if Bus Fares are escalating or if his mother-in-law is interfering (again).  It may not have been ‘that much of a COMPLAINT, as a perceived important life-or-death Goal to reach.  In other Words:  On the ‘Reichter Scale of COMPLAINTS,’ there are complaints and then, there are COMPLAINTS.  COMPLAINTS may appear ‘in disguise’ for you to CHANGE - a Change may do you good.

 

“If COMPLAINTS are perceived or interpreted as a Disguise that seeks for you to change or implants the Notion that ‘Change is in the Air,’ then that Message may hold positive good for The Recipient.   Unfortunately, for Contemporary Man, there are too many Choices than can lead him/her astray and into the cobblestoned Dilemmas of Living a Life filled with COMPLAINTS.  Knowing others are suffering with them, too, secures the Fact that DNA & COMPLAINTS are forever binding and are woven as a colorful Part of our Lives that we’ve grown to (for no other word) than to COMPLAIN about…” 

 

QUOTE OF:  ASK: ADRIENNE SIOUX KOOPERSMITH

Sunday, January 11, 2009 – 6:37 AM CST through

Friday, January 16, 2009 – 11:08 AM CST

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So I recently purchased an iphone from a friend for about $700 because I have T-mobile and cannot get an iPhone the normal way. Regardless, I still loved it and thinks it’s a wonderful invention by Apple.
Unfortunately, about a week ago, Apple released an update that practically destroyed my iPhone–update 2.2. It is set up so that it not only updates iPhone’s firmware, but also the phone’s baseband. So even if I jailbreak it, it still fails to work. Tough luck, huh? After waiting about a week, www.any-network.com released a device similar to turbo sim to unlock again. It sure is a pleasure to know that money can practically solve anything. With a little money, I was able to purchase this device and hopefully save my iphone.

So if any of you are having this problem, please go to that site and purchase your device. But may I suggest you to NOT update your phone to 2.2 if you can wait till a FREE way to unlock your iphone is up.

Again, iphone is amazing but curse Steve Jobs and Apple! They sure got ways to screw people up!