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Bye, bye NetNewsWire
I've been using NewNewsWire for a number of years as my RSS reader as it was easier to use than Safari and a better solution than reading news in Mail. I paid whatever the license fee was and was happy to do it; the program got acquired by NewsGator and became free. It was still maintained, so I was happy. This summer, they announced the end of their own sync service and started allowing people to sync with Google Reader.
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Unable to control my excitement
Snow Leopard is set to be released on Friday. I had originally ordered it from Amazon, but once I saw that the Apple Store guaranteed delivery on Friday, I cancelled my Amazon order and ordered from Apple. Amazon dropped the price a few bucks today and without tax, would have been cheaper, but I couldn't wait! Amazon may actually deliver on Friday, but I decided to spend the extra bucks so I could play with it this weekend (not sure I'll have much time, however).
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Fun day at the hospital
Most people my age have not yet experienced the joys of having a colonoscopy. A few of us are lucky enough to not only have had 1, but 2 colonoscopies. My 2nd was yesterday and boy was it fun. The procedure itself isn't too bad; it's pretty quick and I was sedated during it (I remember Tom, the nurse handing me my glasses so I could see my colon on the screen), and before I knew it I was done. When I got home, I slept for 3 hours.
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Apple Tablet Rumors
The rumors of an Apple tablet are quite amusing to me. While I believe that there exist prototypes of tablet like devices, I don't see Apple jumping into the tablet market quite, yet (I may be proved wrong in the near future, we'll have to wait and see). The market isn't mature enough and I don't think that consumers are ready to abandon their keyboards for a bulk of their computing. The combo devices with a flip around screen haven't really become mainstream, either. Apple, of course, is ahead of the curve in some areas; I don't think this is the year of the tablet.