...now that this site comes up as the #1 result if you search for 'ed thomas' on Google.

I can die slightly more content than usual.

Over at MacRumors.com, there's a bunch of talk about The Boy Genius Report's claim that Best Buy and Radio Shack will begin to carry the 3G iPhone. Although I have no idea why Radio Shack would get involved with this (who goes there to buy anything more than a funky cable nowadays, anyway?), I can actually see The Blue Monster scoring it under everyone's nose.

According to an AP article I dug up, Best Buy's purchase of a 50% stake in Carphone Warehouse, a European cell phone distributor that Best Buy had previously teamed up with to help create Best Buy Mobile, was completed on Monday. Where this ties in, of course, is that Carphone Warehouse is an authorized iPhone distributor overseas. Add to that the love that Apple has been getting from Best Buy in the recently, and you may have an actual story here.

The worst part about having a website that literally tens of people visit is attempting to come up with something to write about. Worse still is the my need to write something, anything, yet cannot string a coherent sentence together to save my life.

Fortunately, I've always advertised myself as "semi-coherent," so I figure I'll just go for a warm cup of stream-o-consciousness writing, thus satisfying my need to write and your need to read something dumb.

Read On!

Today is Apple's media event regarding the iPhone, enterprise software (like Exchange support, I'd imagine), and the long-awaited software developer kit (SDK), which is the key to having third-party applications on your iPhone. I've been pumped on this for a while... if the Adium guys can come up with a version of their instant messaging client for my iPhone, I'll be stoked.

The event starts at 10:00 am Pacific or 1:00 pm Eastern, at which point I'll be in a meeting at work. You can watch live blogging of the event at Ars Technica, or just come back here later tonight and I'll recap the whole thing for you. Or, heck, do both!

On WhySoSerious.com, one of the many sites being used to virally promote next summer's sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, there's a picture of Heath Ledger as The Joker.

I've not been a fan of the images of The Joker that have been shown, since they all looked pretty lame, but, I must admit, I kinda dig this. I still don't like the fact that apparently Joker wears make-up instead of looking like a clown thanks to a chemical accident, but what can you do.

Anyone who knows me knows that I've been getting kinda pissed at Google lately; ever since I scored myself an iPhone, I've had to route my mail through another server so I could use IMAP, a type of mail-server setting that allows you to read mail directly from the server, which prevents you from having to mark mail read or delete it over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea. It's a great way to keep all your mail-fetching devices in sync, and since I have several computers plus the iPhone, it's very handy for me.

GMail, however, didn't support IMAP... it used the old, crappy POP server standard, which means that the mail is downloaded to your computer from the server directly, forcing you to have to go through the same mail constantly. Which, when you get as much mail as I do, is a nightmare.

However, when waiting for an e-mail tonight, I happened to pop into my GMail settings to find something quite impressive: the section that deals with forwarding mail and POP access was renamed "Forwarding and POP/IMAP."

This has made me quite the happy guy, and doesn't seem to have been widely noticed yet across the internet, so it looks like I done got myself some breaking news here. Yahoo!!

I mean that as a cheer of happiness, of course, not as a plug of some other site that may have offered IMAP access for a while. Nope. Not me.