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Apple’s WWDC keynote yesterday was probably one of the more exciting one’s we’ve seen for a while now. We got a few quick looks at Snow Leopard (and it’s amazing $29 price tag) and we got the big announcement of the new iPhone. I for one was completely excited. Unfortunately, there’s a huge stink brewing on the internet from iPhone 3G[pre-s] customers who are upset that they wont be able to take advantage of the $199 and $299 price points. To those people I’d like to say the following: “Owning a iPhone 3G[pre-s] is not different than owning a Blackberry, Motorola, or any other cell phone. If you’re ineligible for an upgrade, you have to pay more”.

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From the moment Twitter made the public timeline searchable, the spam followers have been out in droves. If you mention a product name, that company begins following you. If you name a problem, someone claiming to have a solution begins following you. If you tweet about a job position, someone who’s unemployed starts following you. For the most part, this doesn’t really bother me that much. What does bother me, however, is the ever increasing number of MySpace-esque pornography spam followers I’ve been getting lately.

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I may not be a fan of sleep, but since I am a being that requires it, I do like to take full advantage whenever I can. The thing I hate more than anything else in the world is when someone, or some thing, wakes me up within minutes of my alarm going off. You see, if I’m woken up in the middle of the night, I can go back to sleep. Not true if I’m woken up too close to my scheduled time. Instead, I’m forced to sit there angrily staring at the alarm clock until it actually goes off. Not only was this morning’s experience one of the worst yet, but the almost suspect timing of it truly added insult to injury.

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I’m a huge fan of both Netflix and Gamefly. I love the convenience of rentals being delivered to my door and I love that these services afford me the ability to sample everything without breaking the bank every time I want a new game or film. The systems work beautifully and it’s incredibly simple to manage your queue. Unfortunately, as I recently discovered, both services become huge inconveniences when you want to downgrade to a lower tier.

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Well, we’re nearing the end of the first fiscal quarter, so it seems like a fitting time to check in on the status of my New Years resolutions of 2009. As some of you might remember, I deliberately (or should I say strategically) chose a limited number of easily attainable resolutions to all but guarantee I could succeed this year. So lets check in on how it’s going so far.
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