Stop the upgrade addiction

So now we're already getting apps that require Mac OS 10.6. It's been out for just a few months, and I'm still not sure how many of my current programs would fall apart if I tried to use it. Of course, I also have a G5, and it can't run 10.6 anyway. I'm trying to understand why developers keep doing this.

Changing Google Account name

So you signed up for Google and found that every possible user name in the universe was taken. In a fit of desperation, you picked some weird, obscure, and embarrassing nickname. Like Snoodlepuppy.

Guess what? You are stuck with that name for the rest of your life. Or at least your account's life.

I figured this out when I was invited to Google Wave and somehow got stuck with that same username as my Google Wave address. Other people have the same problem, as you can see in this thread, but there doesn't seem to be any way around it.

Google knows about this problem, since they have a page posted here about it. Of course, they don't actually ANSWER the question.