iPod Touch problems with iPhone OS 3.0

Cautionary note: I'm a Mac fan. Efforts to fight OS wars here or even just sneer at my computing tastes will get nuked without a second thought and repeated offenders barred. There are places I'm quite willing to discuss such things, but my personal journal isn't one of them unless a specific post says otherwise. Now then.  

Something's nastily broken when it comes to iPod Touch wifi in iPhone OS 3.0.  It's not just me - there's a thread on the Apple support forums up to 21 pages tonight, with dozens of folks from all around the world documenting the same problems (inability to connect at all, instability of any connections that can be made) and the temporary-at-best nature of fixes from router replacements to jiggling various connectivity settings. There's a 3.1 beta in the works, but in the meantime, there's just nothing that seems to work.

So, like a lot of others, I rolled back to iPhone OS 2.2. Sure enough, everything works like a charm. Well, a handle of apps that are now 3.0-only won't run, but presumably that's a temporary loss. But when the next update is out, I'm sure going to wait and watch before adopting.

In the meantime, though, it's nice to have my handheld doing all its stuff again.

Meeting the Ingersoll Center in action

I'm very shy. I'm excruciatingly aware of my limited social experience and fearful of making trouble. But I had my counselor as well as real-life friends and some of you who read this journal all urging to me to give a try to some trans group time, and in particularly to the Ingersoll Center's weekly sessions. So tonight I worked up my courage and went.
 
Wow. Just wow. And then some more wow.

There were about 25 people there, with many quadrants of the gender galaxy represented: MTF and FTM transsexuals, some androgynes, a couple of two-spirited people with their own approaches to balance, at least one intersexed person with a different kind of balance in mind...I forget what all other identifications came up, but it was a lot. And in terms of experience, people ranged from having come to a decision about their desired gender identity later than I did to having done so decades ago. 

I think I posted about the very high level of courtesy I've encountered in the Seattle Counseling Service and Capitol Hill Medical offices. that prevailed here, too. This was by far the best-managed group therapy and support I've encountered, with fantastically careful and effective facilitators, but everyone there was trying on their end, too. There was respect and courtesy all around, even with strongly contrasting experiences and priorities. I felt safe and welcome.

It's also now the first place where I'm identified out loud from the get-go as Ceri, which I like very much, and special thanks to all of you who were encouraging a little while back on the subject of claiming a name.

This is going to become part of my routine, I'm thinking.