Me at Mobile Monday on, uh, Monday

If you're in NYC this Monday -- and you're into that whole smartphone thing -- then you should come see to Mobile Monday next week. I'll be talking about why I both love and hate smartphones with Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research and Scott Weiss from Usable Products. Here's the scoop:

Monday, November 27th, 6:45-9 PM

Samsung Experience Center Time Warner Center – Shops at Columbus Circle 10 Columbus Circle, 3rd floor New York City, NY 10022 (map)

The event is free, but you gotta RSVP here.

Jason's out

Man, where to start? Yes, I've known for a few weeks now that Jason was leaving. No, I'm not leaving with him -- I'll be kicking it at Engadget/WIN/AOL for a little while longer. What I can say is that working with Jason for the past 33 months or so has been absolutely amazing, without a doubt it's been the most positive experience of my professional career. I can't imagine anyone better to launch a business with and I'm privileged to count him as both a mentor and a friend. AOL will be a worse place for having lost him.

Uniqlo arrives

Elz and I hit up the Uniqlo flagship store opening in Soho today. As expected, it was almost overwhelmingly crowded, but it was well-worth navigating the masses of people that were packed inside. It's more or less like a Japanese H&M, which is pretty much all you can ask for in a masstige clothing chain, right? PSFK has some pics from last night's launch party.

Not worth waiting for

If this spoiler-laden summary of tonight's episode of Lost is at all accurate -- and it sounds like it is -- then I really don't mind so much that the show won't have any more new episodes until February. Why is it proving so hard for them to crank out a decent episode?

That was fast

Well, that was fast. It took me about six hours before I cancelled that Verizon DSL service I'd signed up for. I needed technical support because of an issue related the wiring in the building (my apartment is wired up, but isn't properly connected to the local loop) and instead of getting someone to help I was merely passed from person to person. After the EIGHTH person passed the buck, I told them to connect me to someone who could cancel my service. After that person transferred me to someone who could actually do that -- no joke! -- I cancelled. One interesting factoid: if you tell them you're going to cancel, even if you've only been a customer for a few hours, they'll offer you two months of free service (obviously I didn't bite).