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September 28, 2007

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Elaine and I are just back from our honeymoon, having flown in to Seattle a couple hours ago after spending the last two weeks in Paris.

(I swear to God, I'm 5 pounds heavier from all the food, and the desserts, and the wine, and the...)

It looks like a few good things happened in my absence:

  • The Storm have confirmed that they're going to have a 2008 season ... but there's no guarantee that LJ is in (she's got a scheduling conflict with the Olympics).
  • The Seattle City Council is going to the mattresses with the owners of the Sonics/Storm. (Go, Team Nickels!)
  • New Order released an exclusive session on iTunes.
  • And Apple released a new update to the iPhone, which, among its many cool improvements, now allows you to turn your data features off (but leave the WiFi and phone service on) in foreign countries to prevent crazy-ass phone bills. (Memo to Apple: this would have been a fantastic thing to offer, uh, two weeks ago...)

I'll have something akin to a trip report shortly, but in the meantime -- it's good to be home.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at September 28, 2007 5:22 PM. Posted to Cool.

Comments

Looking forward to seeing some pictures of Paris!

Can I just say I don't get the uproar over the "bricking" of some iPhones? Is there no awareness on the part of the people having this "problem" that it was entirely preventable--by not hacking their iPhone in the first place? The argument seems to go something like this: "I did something I wasn't supposed to do because it benefited me. You've now prevented me from continuing to do that; therefore it's your fault that I no longer have that benefit, not my fault for doing something I shouldn't have in the first place." Call me a fascist if you want, but hello, personal responsibility anyone?

Between this and the anger over the price drop of the iPhone, it seems to me like there's an extremely vocal minority of MacHeads who are a really, really, really touchy and self-unaware bunch.

Richard

Posted by: Richard Barrett Author Profile Page at October 4, 2007 5:06 AM

Oh, and Mr. Transportation Guru, any thoughts on this?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003923863_compplan04m.html

Posted by: Richard Barrett Author Profile Page at October 4, 2007 5:08 AM

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