As I do my reviews of mobile Web sites, I am shocked at how few of them validate. We have Web standards. Maybe you’ve heard of them? Hello?

Carolyn and I were having a nice dinner on our deck, when we got treated to the Hudson Hot Air Balloon Festival. http://bit.ly/VSs19

A market researcher’s dream has come true: statistics has become sexy. http://bit.ly/I7y8t

New Sony Readers: polished but lacking that Anywhere connection. http://bit.ly/101Q5D

RT @barbaraballard Reading Symbian future article http://bit.ly/3GXvP1 versus Apple innovation article http://bit.ly/hRscf Brain hurts.

Spent evening at Mass General ER with David. Still amazed how such a slammed city Hospital provides such great and thoughtful patient care.

@fiberguy 8 weeks w/o broadband?Comcast’s recent cut of my BB Internet (since fixed) to “upgrade” me to triple play pales in comparison.

Microsoft-Yahoo deal: nothing has really changed. http://bit.ly/nHyZV

Boston Apple Store finished my 3-5 day out-of-warranty repair of my laptop overnight. I love their underpromise and overdeliver meme.

Apple Genius took my out-of-warranty Nvidia-cripped MacBook Pro back for motherboard replacement at no charge. Got to love Apple service.