When the big winter freeze hit in Portland last month, cars were out of commission. It was 4x4 or Mass Transit.

Luckily, we 3G owners had a reliable way to track down the buses.

I used my iPhone religiously to get me from place to place and how to know when to stop, change, etc. My wife even text me from her silly little T-Mobile phone to ask me to route HER commute and tell her what buses she needed.

Things worked out great. The problem was that when the buses went on snow routes, Google didn't know any better. It seems they just use the standard routes and don't re-configure them for extenuating circumstances. And when the buses finally couldn't move and had to cancel a bunch of lines, Google had no idea what was going on.

Unforutnately yes.

I use component for the Wii, which is not a big deal, but I also have to use it for my DVD player. I don't understand the issue - but my Samsung DVD player doesn't "talk right" to my Samsung HDTV over HDMI. So I have to use component until a software patch is released. And is that ever going to happen? Highly unlikely, even though the PR person in Jersey said that they are currently working on it.

Uh huh. Sure.