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Lucky to be flying Emirates; the best service, in flight entertainment, hotels, planes and destinations. By the way, what plane is it? - Michel from iPhone

Leo lots of pictures please, have great time in Dubai, and come home safe. - Vincent Chen

Now, that's traveling in style! Have a great trip. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Scary thing is that he posted this 11 hours ago and is probably still on the plane. Quite a flight. - Andrew Leyden

hope your at&t int'l data plan goes better on this trip. I like @ATTSusan for customer care via Twitter as needed. - Courtney Engle

Skype client can be used over WiFi on iPhone again,. the same other VOIP clients as SIP. - Erik Trolle

Good call. I AM a former intelligence collector...and now an enthusiast. =) http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Ben Turner

I'm a former sigint analyst, it's all useless data until it's analyzed. BTW-curious. Galapag.us appears to be 3 years old and the site is "coming"? - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Yes... Conceived in 2006, but I've been in grad school for a couple years. Just graduated and have more time to devote to this again. Which branch were you? - Ben Turner

I wish I was in Paris right now, it's a beautiful city get-out and see it. Will you be swimming the channel, flying or taking the train? - paul mooney

Drink some wine for me! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Great time to be in Paris. Can almost smell the chestnuts roasting. Enjoyed La Coupole in Montparnasse. - Chris Kenton from twhirl

Why are you making me jealous! It's the one place I dream of visiting but have never been to. Must make it a point to go and quit dreaming. Take lots of pics! - Adriana

I agree -- great time to be there. A little cool (but I came back to Canada last year after Paris in late November to -20c and snow so in comparison not so bad), but with the right clothes there I kept warm. Getting into museums and other venues was dead easy -- no crowds. - Brian Sullivan

I'll be there for New Years. Tell me if there is anywhere I should go. I am also doing London, Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. First time for Europe. - Daniel Zarick

LeWeb 2008 FTW! - Susan Beebe

Don't forget to check out the MySpace Finnish sauna truck. Wha? - jjprojects

Yeah, I noticed that. :-) - Glen Mistletoe

Bucks is where Netscape was incorporated. I think a few other companies were incorporated there, too. Lots of Silicon Valley history there. - Robert Scoble

http://www.buckswoodside.com/ - Robert Scoble

and they have real good blueberry pancakes :-) - Glen Mistletoe

Ok, I'm sorry I'm kind of punchy, but I have to say this anyway. Where do all the Rhinestone Cowboys sit? - Cathleen Rittereiser

I sat next to Roy Rodgers. - Glen Mistletoe

Yes, I've gotten used to pinching over the last couple of months on the iPhone. With potentially 48GB on board, Carl-Zeiss optics, 2 x LED flashes, video-recording capability, 5MP camera...the Nokia N97 makes up in other areas 8-) - Arnold Aranez

Yes..but...QWERTY > than multi-touch - Mo Kargas

i agree, i'll trade pinching for 5megapixels, 2led flashes, video recording, fm transmitter, QWERTY keyboard, and symbian - henry

@mokargas agreed. - henry

If Nokia don't mess this up with a poor real-use battery life and awful firmware at launch (like they often do) I'm tempted to get a second phjone contract for this. Okay, that'd be a bit stupid but it's amazing what phonelust can do! - Martin Bryant

It's still S60. Would have to redo the OS for touch. Tacking it on always sucks. - Rodfather

It's not just pinching, there are some interesting apps you can write for multitouch. - Loren Heiny

I'm still getting used to the pinch cause it doesn't always pick them up for me - alphaxion

Any idea whether the touch display is capacitive or resistive? I'd say the latter, since on the Nokia's video the person uses fingernail. - Tomas Rollo

BB Storm had that limitation too - huge NO for me. I love the multi-touch on iPhone!! Arnold does make some good points - those Nokia specs are hawt!! - Susan Beebe

Awesome specs, fairly sexy design, *but* old mobile device philosophy that will lead to Nokia losing more market share. - mikepk

ahh, they probably just need to bring it out... <cough> like the G1. Don't want to be called a "copy cat" immediately. - thecolor

Capacitive screen, or resistive..? - Jules

Looks Nice :) - Tyler (Chacha)

This keyboard is really nice to use, very smooth - Darren Heydon

I want to get one like that as well ... really like the profile .. but finding one at a reasonable price for a PC isn't that easy - Steven Hodson

I went with the cordless, and I'd agree - the best I've ever owned. - l0ckergn0me

I love the numberless wireless keyboard but find myself going back to the standard one every now and then. When Apple gets it right, there's nothing else even close. - michael sean wright

I spent 2 days on a friends Mac, ever since I've been using the apple keyboard. Very nice. The mouse...not so much. - Joe Pierce

WANT WANT WANT WANT!!! I wish my school district would get these instead of the crappy, annoying iMac keyboards they have. I make three times as many mistakes on the ones they got than on normal PC keyboards (on which I make three times as many mistakes as laptops, but that's beside the point). I'm also not the only one. I dislike being without a right mouse button (and a few computers have mice without the scroll ball), but... Decent keyboard = more important. - Voyagerfan5761 from fftogo

absolutely with you there Duncan, gorgeous piece of kit & works wonderfully - Zee.

@l0ckergn0me my first job when I left school (and 6mths of a BA that bored me shitless so I quit) was with a Merchant Bank and one of my jobs was to hard code numbers every day. Since then I nearly exclusively use the numeric keypad for number entry...I liked the cordless, but I need my numbers - Duncan Riley

Love it! Wish there was a wireless with numpad though. - invariant - farewell FF

@Chris: I'm talking about the -- what are they called? -- mighty mouse. One big button. Can I still do it? (Every time I log in; no saving of settings...) - Voyagerfan5761 from fftogo

invanriant, agreed,and its dumb that Apple doesn't offer it. - Voyagerfan5761, I actually ended up liking my old Apple keyboard. I stuck with a Logitech Win keyboard for the first 6 months, then I decided to "TRY THAT" keyboard, and I stuck with it ever since. Having said that, I've since purchased a top of the range Logitech mouse, and you'll pry that from my cold dead hands - Duncan Riley

Which Logitech? I generally think the buttons on Logitechs need a bit too much force to press, but I'm getting a little tired of the scroll ball on the mightymo getting clogged up. - invariant - farewell FF

@Duncan: Was "that" keyboard the kind sheathed in transparent plastic with white keys, a flat bottom, and USB port on the back? Those are the ones I'm referring to. - Voyagerfan5761 from fftogo

Sorry but nothing beats the: Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000, I can type on that thing for days and fingers feel great. The Apple full keyboard is really nice but I need an ergonomic keyboard, and I love having all the shortcut keys. I want to use a keyboard for everything I do. Same goes for mouse the Mighty Mouse is nice, but Logitech MX Revolution is perfect. - Justin Yost

@Voyagerfan5761 yes, that's the one sitting in my garbage bin at the moment :-) - Duncan Riley

Justin: ergo keyboards are hell for people like me who are "self taught" typists. In my case, different fingers might hit the same key depending on what I'm typing (and I think this helps me avoid the RSI problems true touch typists have btw). And now Microsoft is making even their non-ergo keyboards wavy. That's just a frustration to me. - invariant - farewell FF

I'm using the same Apple keyboard at work on a Lenovo T61. The keys on the Lenovo are terrible and it feels like I can type faster on the apple keyboard. This keyboard will follow me for many years - Dennis Bjørn Petersen from twhirl

@invariant: Agreed about ergo keyboards. @Duncan: Glad I'm not alone. :) - Voyagerfan5761 from fftogo

Very, very recommended. Like, insanely recommended - best keyboard I've owned (wireless version), by far. And I loved my Microsoft Internet Pro keyboards. Nothing comes close to either the one Duncan has or the wireless one - nothing. It's a dream. I type SOOOOOOOOOOOOO fast on this, compared to other keyboards. I also happen to love the Mighty Mouse, so... :) - l0ckergn0me

i wish they had a trackball version of the mighty mouse - jerobins

It rocks - orionstarr

I have the Bluetooth version w/o numeric keypad, and, I have to agree, it's the best keyboard I've ever used. - Glen Mistletoe

I didn't think I would like it either, but I love it too... and my mighty mouse. - Carmen

My 4 month-old black MacBook has a smaller version of your keyboard and I love it for its low-profile, highly tactile feel. I had my Mac keyboard converted to the DVORAK keyboard layout, which I've been using for the past 4 years. It's really better than QWERTY any day! I can type much faster and with less errors compared to the full-size keyboard I had with my Windows box. The bluetooth Mighty Mouse sure beats using the trackpad, and has convenient programmable buttons to bring up Expose and Dashboard. - Siddharth Deb

"generally regarded as a nice guy" lol... - Zee.

hmmmm..... I didn't mean that the way you've said it....maybe it needs to be cleaned up, because he is a nice guy...well, at least publicly :-) - Duncan Riley