I was idly scrolling around my iPhone 4 home screen last night, when suddenly this happened:

I got it stuck between the first two pages on the home screen.  This is repeatable; you just need to scroll to the right pixel.  It takes a few tries, but it’s fairly easy to do.  The buttons on the “active” page (the left half) work as normal, even the folders, but the buttons on the “inactive” page (the right half) do not.  The left half is always the “active” half.

I could not reproduce it on the iPhone 3Gs.

Now, a few hours after taking this picture I was fiddling with it some more.  I got it stuck between two pages, then I tap-and-held on one of the buttons on the right half of the screen.  The screen scrolled to the “active” page, and the folder was gone!  It was nowhere to be found.

I had to reboot my phone before I could get my icons back, but when I did so, every folder except one was gone, and all my icons were scattered randomly across five home screen pages.  Took me another half hour to sort them again.

So, next time you’re fiddling with a software bug in iOS4, don’t be surprised if things aren’t as you expect when you reboot your phone…

Taken on my iPhone, so sorry about the giant black bars on either side.

That’s right, I’ve betrayed everything for which I’ve stood for the last three years.

I think I just got tired of hearing about my friends second- and third-hand.  Nobody tells people anything anymore, they just throw things up on Facebook and assume everyone will see it.

We were at the furniture store today and Brooke thought she’d push her stroller.  It was really cute

I just got these in the mail today from AT&T (click to enlarge):

(I scanned them so you wouldn’t have to put up with a picture of a wooden table.)

Yes, there are six of them, and yes, they’re all identical.  The problems I see with the situation:

• They’re not de-duplicating their outgoing notification mailings, wasting both paper and postage.
• They updated my e-mail address in response to a support ticket I filed (their web interface won’t let you use e-mail addresses containing a ‘+’ character), so obviously I knew about it.  Why send me a postcard at all?
• They have other options for notifying me, notably via text message which would be free and instant.  I guess that’s too easy.
• I didn’t update my e-mail address until after I updated my account’s billing address to my house, but they sent the postcards (all six of them) to my previous mailing address.

I have five lines on my account, so had they sent me five postcards it would have made more sense (relatively speaking), but six?  To the old address?

Sometimes, I’m not too sure about AT&T’s collective sanity.