One of the things we tried a fair bit of while in Los Angeles was Yelp* when looking for places to go, eat, waste time, etc. I have to say it batted about .500 in terms of giving good advice. The closer in we were to the city itself, the better it seemed to do. Out in the Empire it was a bit more dicey.

Using Yelp in the Omaha metro area, however? Yelp == Yikes! I’ve never been more certain that I and my circle of compatriots are not similar to the vast majority of folks here. On the other hand, Applebee’s will be happy to know that they’re one of the metro area’s favorite restaurants. /eyeroll

More generally, we discovered a great many more things about the iPhone than we knew before we left. There have been tremendous strides made in localizing the web and I really can’t imagine traveling without one now. It is so much easier to plug in to a “foreign” environment and navigate as a native. All in all, very sweet. I just wish I could go more than 8 hours on a charge these days. Not really ready to upgrade, Mr. Jobs, but this lack of battery longevity and the inability to replace it myself (on the up and up) is really killing me.