Any self-proclaimed fan of punk/metal owes it to themselves to check this out. The Crucified RULES!

Last night and tonight I’ve been slowly but surely trying to get caught up on reading my blogroll in Google Reader. I subscribe to several difference Apple community blogs, and have noticed that Microsoft’s recent “laptop hunter” ad campaign seems to have really struck a nerve with Apple enthusiasts. I’m not going to bother linking to all of them (there really were several), but if you scroll through some of the recent entries here and here, you should see what I mean.

The common theme across most of those entries seems to be all of the “fallacies” in those commercials. You know, all of the stuff thats *not* being said in the message of the campaign…

What I find most interesting is how the people/organizations voicing those complaints didn’t seem to have any problem with all of the fallacies that were being thrown the opposite direction for the past coupla years in the ads in the “Get a mac” campaign. There was an awful lot of untruth going on there as well.

Frankly, as much as I LOVE my mac, its refreshing to *finally* see Microsoft waking up and fighting back. As consumers, I think we’ll all end up benefitting in the end (in price and quality), no matter which camp we live in.

UPDATE: OK, I guess I was further behind on my blog reading than I thought I was. The articles I’m referring to seem to be further back than I originally thought. For examples of what I mean, see here and here.

I was apparently having some problems with my reCAPTCHA plugin that I was unaware of before this evening that was preventing people from being able to post comments here. Sorry for the inconvenience. Should be working OK now (at least, it works for me again anyway).

So, this past Christmas my beautiful, wonder wife finally caved to my persistence and bought me an iPhone. Without comparison, its been the best phone I’ve ever owned. It really is amazing, I can’t even imagine having to use any other phone now that I’ve owned an iPhone.

All of that is exactly why it was so painful the other day when I noticed that the earpiece volume button on the side of the phone had broken off. I could no longer adjust the volume of the earpiece or the speakerphone. This really needed to get fixed. read more »

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. — Robert Louis Stevenson