I have to get this off my mind to start off with….

I find it utterly amazing the “backlash” over the price drop of the iPhone. There is a reason that early adoption of technology is usually considered being on the “bleeding edge” cause your bound to get hurt from time to time. It just the way that it is. People were proudly declaring that they had picked up their $600 toy 2 months ago. Parading it around, saying how it was SOOOOOOO worth every penny of it. At the time, being the Uber elite was worth the price (you know one of these days I’m going to learn how to add that umlaut, or however its spelled, without going into the HTML, which I won’t do cause I’m being lazy). The price was going to drop eventually any how, what difference does it make if it was today, tomorrow, or another month or two from now. Eventually people were going to be able to get that iPhone for at least half, if not more then what you payed for it 2 months ago. I know why it’s a problem, cause it isn’t worth it for $100 a month to be able to say, “I have something you don’t have”? That’s the only reason I can think of. You only wanted to pay $30′ish a month to say that.
Whatever, as it stands Apple caved and is giving out some credits for the early adopters.

I will admit though, I do feel sorry for the people who got the lower end model that’s been dropped completely. I’d consider some form of refund for them, or at least some low cost upgrade for them. It’s one thing to say, “we need to sell more so we’re lowering our prices” (no not in anyway an exact quote, more of my interpretation of the announcement, same with the next line) but to find out the product that you bought was so not worth the company’s time and energy that they are dropping it already, yeah even I would find that more then just a little annoying.

Well, enough about Apple for now, I’m sure there are soooo many more blog and forum posts on it, that I really don’t need to add much more. On to my Web 2.0 make over.
OK, so, I didn’t get much of a chance today to continue to work on this blog out side of this post. If you must know, which I guess is the reason for blogs, it’s because I had a back log of Buzz Out Loud’s to listen to. And yes, I can multi-task, but I can’t concentrate on every thing I need to do or can do with service X and still pay attention to what Tom and Molly (and a whole bunch of other people the past couple of weeks) where saying. And really I wanted to get caught up. I need to get the car radio adaptor for my player so I can listen to these pod-casts on my way to and from work. Or get a working tape cartridge (yes my car has a tape deck not a CD player, it not a clunker just a little older) that I can connect to it. My ride, one way, to work is about 30 mins. Which granted is shorter then some people out there, but not as short as the 5 min drive to another job I once had. This would help in keeping up with my favorite pod-casts.
Before anybody says it, no, even though a tech pod cast and reading a technical manual don’t mix for me. I can drive and listen just fine, with no chance of a distracted driving accident on my part.

Just as a side note, I deleted a rather large disertation on my theory on how the brain works, and how distracted driving accidents happen to some people but not others, and it had nothing to do with luck. Saving a good 10 mins of your life on somthing you might not have wanted to read. For those who might be interested, I’ll make a seperate page someday and retype it.