I would actually buy one at full price except I get a free BB through work. I used to have a G1 and I really liked it much more than the BB but I can't argue with free.

Look into SOMA warehouse spaces. They can be hard to get into but are the best options for sub $700/room rents.

The problem is they come with Windows 7 Started Edition a heavily crippled version.

I'm hosting a fundraiser for Noisebridge Wed the 9th http://www.yelp.com/events/san-francisco-let-me-make-you-a-d...

Somehow I missed this - thanks much for putting it together!

Noisebridge is one of the things I miss about the Bay Area.

I used to love sailing on Lake Erie but once I started doing it seriously in the Pacific my sea sickness kept getting worse and worse to the point it was impossible. I really hope to find a cure one day or have it reverse itself (which I guess does happen).

Anyways congrats on following your dreams!

I don't have first hand experience with them, but I've heard good things about ginger (yep!) with regard to motion sickness, and the British Navy supposedly (per an "outfitter" catalog selling them) has elastic wristbands with a plastic tab/point that presses against an acupressure point in the wrist.

Mums had a 27' sailboat for a while, on Lake Michigan. I was only out on it a couple of times. I found the "keep your eyes on the horizon" suggestion quite useful; going below, out of sight of the horizon, was not a lot of fun.

The acupressure wristband works great, until you realise it's a placebo. Then the fucker stops working. I speak from experience.

I have both a BlackBerry and G1 and the Google Voice app on the BlackBerry doesn't work as well. It doesn't natively take over the dialer the way it does on Android.

I just got a BlackBerry on Verizon and so far the reception has been very poor. Yesterday I was on Caltrain and wasn't able to use data at all and when I got a voice call the sound was horrible. I ended up pulling the battery and that seemed to help so maybe it's the BlackBerry and not the network but so far I'm unimpressed. BTW I work in Santa Clara and live in the city.

I'd put money on it being RIM's fault. Ever since they switched to the "bold" OS I've really lost my taste for the brand. I have a 9000 and have to constantly swap both the SIM and battery to make the thing dial. RIM = Fail. I'm switching to Android.

i live in the mission and a good friend lives in soma

to give you an idea of prices

i live in a new 3 bedroom condo building with two roommates (24th and bryant) and pay 1150/mo plus about 50 in utils

my friend lives in an older 3 bedroom home w two roommates (sumner and howard) and pays 650/mo plus about 50 in utils

im very happy in the mission but soma is cool two, i wouldnt live in n beach too far away from everything

another friend lives right on market in a highrise and pays 1500 for a pretty big studio

hope some of this helps.

That's because if they charge you the extra dollar they get to count you as a customer to the advertisers.

We've used CacheFly and have been really happy. The price is right and at our low number of transfers it always maxes out the customers downstream pipe. The only issue we've had is some of our customer's internal firewalls have blocked one of our files that 5GB+ but I guess that would happen not matter which CDN we used.