Stupid, stupid, stupid.  Tried to get brother's phone to sync with outlook properly and it wound up deleting stuff.  Fortunately, I pulled the wire, but not before all the events got whacked from the calendar.  As somewhat of a software programmer myself, this underscores the importance of error checking.

Using my high-school progamming instructor's all-to-frequent thought, I may not be writing code for pace makers or any other kind of medical, life-critical applications.  Still, the inconvenience of losing all the calendar events and contacts, is more than a slight annoyance, especially if no proper backups exist (which they didn't).

I suppose that's enough of a rant for today.  The message I'm taking away is that too much error trapping is better than not enough.  And that electronic gadgets have one commonality - they'll all fail sometime.

Sweet! Now I need to find/hack a phone to live stream the footage shot on two of these bad boys and the world can watch Alexei and me on our bike trips. The fact that nobody would watch is besides the point.