Blood, Sweat & Tears → Sweat & Tears Blood
Earth, Wind & Fire → Wind & Fire Earth

Likewise, I have never been able to back up the data on my computer. Ever. In concept, it's pretty simple. You buy the backup media, fire up the backup software, set some options, and off it goes. Over the years I have tried perhaps 20 different backup media, and half a dozen backup software solutions. So far, none have worked.

90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any number of business-related tasks, while entertainment rectangles--larger and louder and often placed inside the home--allow Americans to enter a relaxing trance-like state after a long day of rectangle-gazing.

According to researchers, these rectangles help to notify citizens about which brand of domestic detergent to buy, what direction to drive their vehicles in, and how many more seconds a food item must remain inside its revolving radiation chamber before it can be hurriedly consumed.

1. Google Sync is awesome.  I'm really glad to be done with Outlook syncing.
2. The operating system seems to block a lot of the options and preferences that were available in Windows Mobile, but I'm seeing this as a positive thing because, like Apple and the iPhone, this device seems to be more about the interface than the hardware or software.
3. The default ringtones were composed by UCLA music professor Roger Bourland, and they were recorded live with human musicians.
4. There's no stupid little startup sound when you turn on/off the phone.

1. The Notes application, which I used to jot down a few ideas for this review, is quite ugly and stupid.  It's growing on me, and the whole "post-it notes on corkboard" idea is cute.  But I like order, not cuteness.
2. The keyboard is good, but not great.  The top row of keys is almost unusable because they're so close to the rest of the phone.
3. The speakerphone isn't loud enough.
4. Battery life is abysmal.  I have to charge it every day, maybe every other day if I hardly use it.  Coming from a Treo 700, which I charged maybe once every five days, this is quite a change.
5. I often have trouble determining which end of the device is the top.  This makes me sound stupid, but my old phone had an antenna and an always-present keyboard, so there was no question.
6. The sliding mechanism is a little loose and makes the phone feel kinda cheap.
7. There's no way to turn off the data connection, which might have something to do with the abysmal battery life.
8. The screen has a slight yellow mark on the lower left corner, and it seems to appear either after extended use or while charging, which makes me think it has something to do with heat and might just be a problem with my particular phone.  I might try to get a replacement.

1. "You should be able to do (X) even though I've never tried it."  Yes, you should, but you can't.  If you don't know what you're talking about and don't understand the language you're trying to use, don't just spout off answers from the top of your head like some sort of code gunslinger.
2. "This code should work even though I didn't test it."  You're right, it should work, but it doesn't.  If you took two minutes to actually try it yourself instead of just typing it into the comment box on a website and assuming it would work perfectly, maybe you could've actually contributed something.  Instead, I'm left trying to solve my preexisting problem while also trying to solve the problems your code created.

1. A phone was left on during a meeting.  (-5 points)
2. A phone was answered during a meeting.  (-10 points)
3. An unfathomably pointless conversation took place (-30 points) in earshot of other people (-20 points)