Here’s a gadget etiquette lesson—the type I will be covering in the Ask Jason column. Tip: guaranteed sex always trumps using your iPhone for just about ANY REASON*.
Lisa at Boingboing—OK, actually, my girlfriend—wrote about our long standing debate about checking email in public. Reading it I felt indignation, and then shame, but in the end I have to yet again disagree.
It should be common sense to back up whenever you are sending your laptop off to be fixed, even for something small. According to Consumerist, one unlucky reader learned the hard way.