It seems like any blog out there seeking tech creds is reviewing the iPhone 2.0 software that was released today.  Unlike most geeks, I didn’t jump in on the early “release” yesterday, waiting instead for software that wasn’t going to potentially screw up my phone or make it unstable. But, now that I have the official, Infinite Loop Drive-blessed, Jobs-approved release, I’ll be putting it through its paces, so expect my review this evening or tomorrow.

One snag on install – iTunes is having slight difficulty re-authorizing my phone through ITMS.  Updates as they become available.

UPDATE #1: I finally got everything installed & working – it DID take about 5 – 10 minutes of “Accessing iTunes Store” before the phone was completely installed.  Lots of people doing what I did…when I did it, I’d wager.  Apps are pretty cool…but some definitely need some polish.

UPDATE #2: So I’m standing behind my earlier statement regarding apps needing some polish.  Some apps (WeatherBug, for example) seem to hang for extended periods while they download data.  I’m forgiving about this on my Edge connection, but at least provide a modicum of notification to the user as to what’s going on. Also, I’m getting quite tired of having to authorize location services to every application each time I launch them.  Apple:  How about a preferences pane where I can explicitly authorize an application to use location services?  Monkey Ball is pretty darned addictive, and wickedly hard to boot!  I can’t really see giving this to my 6-year old daughter, for fear of her chucking my iPhone out the window.

I went to the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers concert last night.  There I was witness to many a fashion faux pas.  Now, I’m no fashion expert; however, I feel I must be the first (?) to face this one glaring abomination head-on.

To all the ladies out there:

You know the straight-outta-the-70s huge-lensed sunglasses you are all wearing, thinking they make you look good?  Well, they don’t.

They make you look like something of a mix between Paris Hilton and  Jeff Goldblum’s adaptation of “The Fly”.   Unlike Rachel Ray’s husband, I don’t want to feel like if I get too close, that I’ll get drenched in flesh-dissolving goo.

Well, what looked pretty cool at first glance….really not so much.  It’s cool to be able to pick the brain of one of my favorite (dead) authors.  However, it’s not so cool to have to pay over $30 for the privelege to do so for just one book (Starship Troopers). 

I suppose it’s just another money grab…

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