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My party was good. Yada yada yada yada yada. I had an amazing time, saw a few of people I'd thought I lost to time, and - save one important one and a few others - had all my closest friends with me at one time.

On an unrelated note, I've decided that my summer goal to "play with Bluetooth" still had not been fully satiated. Therefore, I decided that I was fed up with Cingular's inability to give me all the cell-phone features (Voicemail has never worked in Boston. Well, it works as people can leave messages, but the system does not notify me in any way) I purchased and have hopped over to T-Mobile. The main inspiration for the jump is because T-Mobile is offering an unlimited Internet plan (via GPRS) for $20 extra/mo. Having portable, always-on wireless Internet access that I can use (via Bluetooth) on my palm and my laptop, as well as a decent cell-phone package is worth the $60/mo. IMO. Which, sadly, is only about $10/mo. more than my Cingular service.

On usability: Bluetooth, with my shiny new camera-phone and Palm, is very nifty. The Palm has a handy little software upgrade that provides a wizard to set up a phone-control and GPRS-connection-sharing link. Palm did an amazing job putting together their phone-palm integration, as I can practically leave my phone in my pocket (with the headset on) and do all that i need to do with it: go online, dial numbers (from my palm's address book). In addition, I can actually send contacts between the two devices over Bluetooth - a feat of standardization that I never thought would be seen in my lifetime. I'll play with getting a link set up to my laptop soon, which should be good: wireless 'net (though a bit slow) anywhere I go that doesn't already have WiFi. I love the information age.