I know what I want for Christmas

I know what I want for Christmas

My iPhone wish list, version 1

1. Third Party apps, with full access to all of the hardware. This means an app could theoretically use the microphone and speaker (I’m thinking SIP client here)

2. iChat with AIM support. Even better if you can log in to multiple accounts like on iChat on a mac. 3 points if it includes voice chat.

3. iPod video and YouTube video rotate the other way. Rotating to the left puts the volume controls on the bottom, and they then act opposite to the volume indicator on the screen. Putting them on top (having it rotate to the right) would clean this up.

4. A keychain for safari. Extra points if you sync this and form fill data with my mac.

5. Sync services that tie into .Mac. IE: Let me add an entry to my calendar on the phone, and it should be on my computer by the time I get home. 

 6. MMS support. Or, at a minimum, put a link to the message instead of the current plain text message to go to a website with the password and message id.

7. Show the wallpaper on the homescreen.

8. quicker access to phone app. Double tap home, go to phone, something like that.

9. A home page for safari. If I haven’t accessed safari for >5 hours, I am probably starting a fresh browsing session. At a minimum, give me a home page and a home button for safari.

10. Flash support, and less important, java in Safari

This is what I’ve come across now, I may have more in the future. 

Mars is essentially in the same orbit [as earth]….Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Dan Quayle, former Vice President of the United States
…we will fix these problems when we the people decide that nobody else is going to do it for us, but that we have to become personally involved in saving American democracy.
Al Gore, at George Washington University 5/29/07

F*&% you Baltimore (do not watch this at work)

In many ways, George W. Bush reminds me more of Nixon than of any other president. Like Bush, Nixon subordinated virtually every principle to his hunger for reelection. 
Al Gore, The Assault on Reason
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed