I am reading a book right now called Send by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe. It’s a book about e-mail. I know, not everyone’s cup of tea.

But they share some lists I thought were significant enough to share.

Seven Reasons to Love E-mail

1. Best medium for sharing essential information
2. You can reach about anyone.
3. It knows no time-zones.
4. It provides a searchable record.
5. You can craft your message on your own time and own timetable.
6. You can preserve pieces/parts of previously sent messages in your new message.
7. You can include other information, i.e., attachments.

Eight Deadly Sins of E-mail

1. Vague
2. Insulting
3. Puts you in jail.
4. Cowardly.
5. The one that won’t go away (lots of replies).
6. Too sarcastic.
7. Too casual.
8. Too inappropriate.

One issue I have thus far with the book: they write e-mail as email. I got into the habit about 2 years ago of writing e-mail with the hyphen. I prefer it, and somehow, it feels right.

The book is an interesting read for anyone who might live or die by e-mail. They’ve got good tips for when e-mail isn’t such a good idea, and lots of humorous examples.

I took a nice, long vacation to Canada and Alaska.

I can’t say I refrained from technology during the trip (because I did take over 1500 photos), but I did take my mind off of things for a bit, before digging-in to a book by Marc Prensky.

View more photos via Flickr.

Upon using my iPhone from Saturday of this week, it’s been an amazing product. Unlike many folks I’ve read about (and now evidently this pertains to just 2% of the iPhone-buying populace), I had no activation issues.

But now I do have an issue.

It looks like I may have to return the iPhone to Apple. The volume controller in the iPod app does not work. That is to say, trying to move the volume widget doesn’t work.

I get a similar problem when looking at maps: the buttons at the bottom of the screen do not depress. My feeling is, it’s a hardware flaw with the touch-screen.

I’ve seen one such flaw before: one guy made a video of his iPhone’s entire touch-screen being faulty. I haven’t yet read about one that is partially faulty.

If you have an iPhone, here’s my contribution with a wallpaper. I took this photo in Washington, D.C. last year.

Evidently, I’m not the only one with the iPhone issue.

I wrote this blog post with iPhone.

My friend called the other day after I got the iPhone. He too just got a new phone. “Did you get iPhone?” He told me, “No, just replaced my Motorola…”

I didn’t know what happened to his first one.

“I washed it in the laundry, and I needed to replace it.”

And a colleague at work dropped his out of his shirt pocket, and into the toilet. Like my friend, he had his replaced.

Well, in my consternation to get in the house Friday night (err, Saturday morning), I rushed from the car, through a downpour of rain, and into the house. It rained hard all night long.

On Saturday, after setting-up the iPhone, I learned I’d need these two websites.

• How to Save a Wet Cell Phone
• Fast Cell Phone Repair

I walked outside, and what did I find sitting in the yard? My work cell phone.

It was outside all night, I must have dropped it.

It was “off,” and so I opened it up, and took out the battery. I was panicked. I put the phone into the car, and there it sat until this morning. (The car is hot, and I figured it was a good place to dry things out.)

Upon plugging it in this afternoon, it worked. I replaced the battery. That worked!

So, while it had me worried… your cell phone can still work after getting wet.