IMDB, I love you, but I’m moving on.

You were, perhaps, my favorite site of all time. A movie lover’s wet dream. So central to the lives of myself and my friends that it came to be known simply as “the database.

We shared good times and bad. The lists we made and the bets won. (The actor/actress whose career plummeted the most from a stellar beginning? Diane Keaton.) The countless games of “Six Degrees.” You were the oracle for all our “who is that guy” questions. (more…)

Okay, in the universe of problems to have, this is one of the nicer ones. I just returned from a three-week vacation in Europe (two in Italy, one in Denmark), where my beloved iPhone 3G was hobbled — neutered, even — by limited access to wi-fi and reasonably priced data networks. (more…)