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Yes, yes I did. And I will again. This time, for sure!

A divorced father of a 6-year-old daughter, he distinguished himself as one of the most fearless reporters in The Post’s Baghdad bureau. He began work for the paper in early 2004 as a stringer in his hometown of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

In July 2005, he received a note threatening his life if he did not quit journalism and leave the city. He refused. “This is my city, and I’m a journalist,” he told colleagues.

Shortly after, he was attacked by two men, who beat him with their fists, a metal pipe and the butt of a pistol, leaving him with bruises all over his body and opening a gash in his head that required eight stitches. After he was released from the hospital, The Post implored him to leave Tikrit. When he refused, Omar Fekeiki, the newspaper’s former office manager and special correspondent, said he was told he would be fired if he didn’t leave.

Saif Aldin later moved to Baghdad, where he repeatedly braved the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, often traveling alone.

Sadly, Saif Aldin is but one of over 100 journalists killed since the beginning of the war in Iraq, and well over 600 in the past ten years. The next time someone spouts off on how the media are all cowards and refusing to report the truth or driven solely by agenda, feel free to point them to the above as an example of how wrong they truly are.

While the implementation is neat, and it’s good to see you trying out new ideas, I personally think what you are doing is HORRIBLE. The best feature of the iphone is to see the web as it is intended. This means full pages, all graphics, just as it appears on a regular computer… not a watered down WAP version. You’ve just taken all the work apple did and then you’re forcing a watered down ‘WAP’ version down the throats of people who spent money on an iPhone ( we could have gotten this watered down version from a windows mobile device.)
I understand this is a personal blog of yours, but trends get set very easily.. Before you know it, more people will be doing this, and then all the features of the iphone are wasted… sigh…
At the very least, put a link at the top to give users a choice on how they’d like to view your page….
just my .02

It’s sort of the same argument that people make against spoofing your browser’s user agent; by conforming to the lowest common denominator, you’re slowing the adoption of better standards. And as an oldschool Mac user, I’m well aware of the dangers of such an approach. But as I noted in the comments myself, if there was a way to auto-detect whether an iPhone user was connecting over EDGE versus WiFi, it would provide the best of both worlds; a lightweight page for EDGE surfing and a full-featured one for WiFi browsing.

If the iPhone really takes off, this will hopefully become something of a non-issue within one to two years, especially if other cell providers come up with browsing solutions as elegant (by comparison) as Safari for iPhone. WAP sites by and large suck, but the principle of minimizing a site’s load time and maximizing its layout efficiency works just as well for a “real” browser as for a mobile one. So even Mitch’s minimal tweaking has already benefited his regular users. There’s a lesson here somewhere.

(And yes, I bought one. More on that part later, of course.)

On the plus side, at least we now have one device in the house which should always have at least some kind of Internet connection (which is why you’re even hearing from me now since once again our connection is down). Screen’s a bit small but it certainly is handsome.

(in case you’re wondering about the title, it’s an elderly “Simpsons” reference.)

Also, the Yankees were twice as many games back in the AL wild-card race (7) as the Baltimore Orioles (3).

As a former Massachusetts resident, I believe a “HA-ha!” is in order here.