The following chart only tells part of the story (both based on the specific demographics of this site and for the fact that XP is off the chart) and is really only offered up for perspective on what Apple is up against in their battle with Microsoft for OS dominance. Apple has made healthy gains in the OS market share race over the past few years, so keep that in mind when you look at the following chart.
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To make use of the native getElementsByClassName I rewrote my getElementsByClass function to use the method where possible.

Here's the code*:
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Is demand for the iPhone in America already starting to wane?

AT&T, the exclusive American carrier of the iPhone, activated just 900,000 iPhones during the fourth quarter, the company revealed during its earnings conference call Thursday. It wrapped up the year with "just at or slightly under 2 million iPhone customers," according to company executives.

Apple announced at Macworld that it has sold 4 million iPhones through the middle of January, and Toni Sacconaghi, a financial analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, thinks the gap between the figures means that Apple might have a demand problem. He released a research note Thursday after AT&T's earnings saying that the carrier's figures imply that an awful lot of inventory is building up at Apple's channel partners.

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Report: iPhones piling up at AT&T stores

For my money, while it's a lovely device the lack of a keyboard and the lack of third party apps makes it an unattractive option. I couldn't live without my Treo and a healthy part of that is the wealth of third party applications I'm able to jam onto the thing.

And yeah, I'm sure mobile Safari would make me all tingly with it's slickosity, especially when compared to the sickly Blazer, but to be honest it probably wouldn't matter all that much. most of the time, if I'm surfing a site on my phone I'm not usually interested in bells and whistles anyway. I'm usually just looking for info, and Blazer's optimized mode is usually better for that than a full blown website anyway (Just another reason those black screen iPhone commercials drove me nuts. I wanted yell at the screen sometimes since they would imply that the only way you could quickly browse to a site to get someone's name is with the magical powers of the iPhone. )

The thing that's surprising is that I really felt like I was in the minority and that there was the usual insatiable Apple technolust for the iPhone. Of course, the numbers could be wrong and the demand could be as insane as I expected it to be, but if the numbers are accurate that's sure a lot of unsold iPhones.

Of course, thinking about it, I only know three people with iPhones. I see more Blackberries and Treos than that at pretty much any meeting with more than maybe seven or eight participants… Not a huge sampling of course, but it still seems like a small number.

Not my magnum opus certainly, but it's been several months since I've had a site launch so I figured I might as well prove that I'm still gainfully employed.

Macworld – Homepage | Macworld Conference & Expo

I did some HTML consulting* and some CSS work.

*Drupal, the technology it's built on, doesn't really allow the sort of control over markup I'm used to, so I'm limited to sketching out what I'd like to see, crossing my fingers and then asking questions like "is there any way we can get rid of X" or "can we change Z to Y?"

Drupal is really powerful and most of the people from the Drupal community we've worked with have been awesome, but I simply can't stand working with the system. I'm used to being in complete control of the UI layer. With Drupal, complete control just isn't possible so I've been driven a bit mental with bumping up against the constraints of the system.

"This keyboard will not only stomp your colon, but the colons of distant relatives of the human species such as lagomorphs, and hypothetical colons of children you haven't even had yet. Want to type a backslash? No problem. Ampersand? You bet your ass. On an iPhone, you have to press an additional button that opens up an alternate keypad that will allow you to type numbers and punctuation. So typing something as simple as elipses (…) requires you to tap your finger 9 times. Enjoy your phone, losers! People like me who have shit to do will stick to a keyboard that doesn't have its lips wrapped firmly to the user-interface equivalent of a throbbing dong:"

Way too funny for its own good. Especially since there's valid criticism in between the jokes.

The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.

As a note, because of this I installed tussh installed on my Treo. The power of SSH from my phone is mine, all mine… next time I'm out and have a eureka debugging moment I could potentially whip out the phone and work my magic.

The odds of me doing that are slim, but it's nice to have the option. I feel all nerdy.