Today's rant is on the 'After-Greeting Message' that cell phone carriers insist on forcing all of your callers to listen to whenever they get your voice mail.

I took a nerd test and apparently I am a Nerd King.

If you bother to take the test, then rest assured, you are a nerd.

I recently downloaded and installed the trial version of JetBrains ReSharper and I am so happy with it I can't see straight. This is by far the best developer plugin for Visual Studio that I have ever come across. I haven't paid for it yet ($149 for the C# edition, $50 more for the full version that covers VB as well), but I plan to. I have a license for CodeRush, but

FYI: After receiving the latest iPhone update (to revision 1.1.4), my phone wouldn't connect with my bluetooth headset anymore (a Plantronics Voyager 510). The phone's bluetooth settings showed it was still paired, but it refused to *hook up*.

I un-paired it and re-paired it and is solled the prolen.

XKCD