I jailbroke my iPhone today. It’s the first time I’ve literally sweat using a piece of hardware. I’ve pulled out RAM from a computer in use to prevent it from catching on fire, I’ve hot swapped drives and flashed at least 20 BIOSs. I’ve frozen hard drive, and whacked them against tables to get actuators moving again and once dove across a room to remove a screw driver that’d fallen into a CPU fan. Nothing compared the exhileration of possibly destroying a $550 to replace phone in the course of jailbreaking a phone so I could get an unsigned app to get rid of the stupid “Stocks” icon. Oh, and also for the possibility of allowing me to use my phone as a wireless highspeed modem by tethering it to my laptop. That too.