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For those interested, there are further discussions here and here.

In my case, I use Linux exclusively so this weekend I had to hunt down a Windows XP box (since it doesn't work on 7) that I could use. There was no way I was going to trust
the clowns at a Rogers store nor wait for the SD card to get shipped.

As much as I like Android and the whole concept of an open mobile platform, there is still a lot of work to do in terms of letting all members of that mobile ecosystem know who is resposnible for what. The entangled mess that is the mobile industry in Canada will be a challenge.

Thanks to Rogers' constant habit of sticking their stinky paws in the ROM to customize it with their useless icons (amongst other things), "supported" upgrades to Android devices such as the HTC Magic and HTC Dream are VERY difficult. Part of the reason Rogers was even able to release the fix so quickly was because a vocal group of us has been pushing Rogers and HTC to stop this nonsense and letting us upgrade - I'm sure work had already gotten started. I am curious about what would have happened if Rogers and HTC had continued with their no upgrades plans.

"...are re-thinking their implementation and immitating google... wait wait..hmmm yah that's right."

Perhaps you're a Google fanboy. Let's take a look at some of the fascinating snippets of articles pulled from your website:

Google Code - "Day after day Google is releasing new projects that have this geek constantly interested."

GSuggest - "Yesterday Google released a very nifty upgrade to their search tool..."

Firefox GSuggest Extension - "Obviously Google's is much better hehe.."

New MSN Search DOS - "Besides the fact that it's obviously a ripoff of this other popular search engine..."

Please, go home fanboy.

Oh, and here's some advice to play around with: don't use "hehe" when you're trying to compare products/services/companies or anything else. It makes you sound like a middle-school-aged girl--you're not one of those, are you?

Ok so curiousity got to me and I installed it. From what I've seen, it only changes the Home Page Icon at the top right and it adds an extra menu to the right of Help with some pretty useless links - It just seems to be a bunch of bookmarks. You can view a screenshot here. I Wonder if it's doing anything else in the background .. hmm

There already is: http://www.loconet.ca/. Actually, it was released a day of Suggest was introduced!