Cell phones and service plans?

We are luddites. We have refused to have cell phones for a very long time. But we might give in at some point soon.

I was wondering what plans people have, how much they cost, whether or not they like their plans, etc.

If, say, two free phones were to come with a promo deal ..... ahem ... or whatever ... ????

Advice is welcome.

kerri9494 says she loves her T-Mobile plan.

Hawthorne's current political relevance?

For Hawthorne, America's darkness could be expressed in social as well as spiritual realms. This was not only a reasoned rebuke to the optimism of Emerson and the Transcendentalists but also a counter to the blinkered chauvinism, automatic patriotism, and arrogant power-mongering of his time (and ours). [bold is mine]

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&id=656335&pid=30&sid=13#hawthorne

Hmmmm.

PHP problem

Why does this 'if' statement work:

$filesize = filesize($inputFile);
if ($filesize > 0) {
  //print "<br/>debug, $inputFile is $filesize\n";
  $result = xslt_process($xh, $inputFile, "searchResults.xsl");
  return $result;
}

When this 'if' statement does not:

if (filesize($inputFile) > 0) {
  //print "<br/>debug, $inputFile is $filesize\n";
  $result = xslt_process($xh, $inputFile, "searchResults.xsl");
  return $result;
}

ARGH! WTF? Am I thinking in Perl here or something?