and the iPhone easily beats them all for usability and stability. I don't know what the writer's problem is, but the experiences related are not the norm, and probably related to the owner and not the iPhone. I am a Windows developer/user through and through, but at the phone business, Apple is kicking Microsoft's ass. None of these expensive, complex devices are military-grade, and are not meant to be dropped, washed or subjected to extended triple-digit temps, and the iPhone is probably not alone in being vulnerable to such abuse.

To boil it down: iPhone > You.

I would never hesitate to have a car towed out of my extra spot at my condo. A precedence of allowing someone to use your spot sends the wrong message.

Act like a doormat ... get walked on.

This has to be a joke. Get off yer arse and clean the house. As long as it probably took you to write your lame, whiny letter you could have spent cleaning or putting stuff away.

Sheesh . . .

I'm not sure what marathon we were supposed to witness. I've seen some of the PE footage before and it is breathtaking in HD and so I was really looking forward to leaving it on all day as family came and went. Sadly it was not on in marathon form or at all as far as I could tell. Perhaps this is going to occur next Tuesday, on NYE?

Hawaii should play a real schedule and then complain. And it's not that I've heard Hawaii complaining, but frankly with their schedule of weak team after weak team they should consider themselves very fortunate to even be in a BCS bowl.

Sadly the same can be said for OSU, who lost to Illinois. OSU's claim to fame this season is beating a Michigan team who lost at home to Appalachian State, not even a Division I-A school. There are several SEC teams that could go undefeated if they played a schedule like OSU's, but OSU couldn't.

Hawaii and OSU will finally each meet a real opponent (SEC teams) and both will go down in flames. I expect that OSU will fare even worse against a well-rested LSU team than they did last year against Florida - LSU is just as fast but much more physical than Florida was. Of course anyone who has watched LSU this season knows that with Les Miles' boneheaded play calling with the game on the line, OSU does have a snowball's chance in hell, barely. Michigan dodged a bullet when he decided to stay at LSU, and the rest of the SEC rejoiced.

I expect Georgia to set a new record for the number of sacks and interceptions against Hawaii as they will be able to hurry QB Colt each and every play. Knowshon Moreno will run wild against a suspect defense and everyone will finally realize that Hawaii wasn't really deserving of a BCS Bowl bid.

There should be a measurement like "you need to be this tall to ride this ride" except for college football it should be "your schedule should be at least this difficult" if you want to claim any right to a BCS Bowl berth, let alone an opportunity to play for any sort of title.

As an Auburn fan still disgusted with being jilted in 2004 when we went 13-0, I can only sit back and laugh at the whining. Since the gobs of money being made will never allow a playoff system this year's fiasco was not only predictable but inevitable, and will be repeated over and over again.

I have to admit that I only finished watching the 2nd season of the Wire last night so I've got 2 more seasons to watch and apparently a 5th and final on the way. My feeling is that the Sopranos was about characters and the Wire, while having very likable characters (and some not so likable), does a better job of telling a story.

When it's all said and done, after seeing the final episode of the Sopranos I was very sad that it was over, that I wouldn't know what happened to the characters I had become so engrossed in throughout the series. At the same time, the meandering plots and myriad characters tossed at me throughout the series had become so confusing and really superfluous to the real focus which was the character of Tony Soprano and his fate.

At this point in the Wire I don't have the same affection for any of the characters. This is not to say that the characters are poorly developed or don't earn my empathy, but they are merely entertaining props to move the story narrative along rather than the primary focus of the story. When I've watched the last episode of the Wire I'll be sorry that I don't have such entertaining TV to watch, but I won't have the longing in my heart I do to know what happens next like I did with the Sopranos. At the same time I seem to be more impatient waiting for the next disc of the Wire from Netflix as I was with the Sopranos.

I think the answer to "best show of all time" probably depends on what you like. Both shows deserve consideration, and I only hope that HBO or some other network continues to delivery escapist dramas of this quality.

If so then the family have no claim to the place. You don't have to move. They can't force you to move. It boils down to whether or not you want to keep them as friends or not, but if it were me I would be so completely offended by their behavior after my generosity that whether I left or they left, the relationship is scarred.

Sheesh . . .