Apple announced yesterday (press release here), that iTMS downloads have passed the 300 million mark. Which means the iTMS is selling songs faster then analysts were predicting for this year. Apparently, there doesn’t seem to have been the predicted post-holiday slowdown. Which makes sense, since so many people bought iPods for the holidays..they need to fill ’em up now!
Go Steve!
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has has finished at the top of the Forbes CEO Approval Tracker for the 20th straight month with an approval rating of 95 percent for February. Behind Jobs were: IBM’s Samuel Palmisano (58%), Dell’s Kevin Rollins (41%) Sun’s Scott G McNealy (39%), and Hewlett-Packard’s Robert P. Wayman (17%).
(story originally posted on MacMinute)
Holy Shit!!!
I know… not exactly what you would be expecting for a title…but really.. it fits.
I’ve mentioned at least once in the past the fan run campaign to raise enough $ to pay for a season of Star Trek: Enterprise, to prevent its cancellation. In all the stuff I’ve seen online..there were always a bunch of people stating that it would never work, that people would never donate to a show… etc..etc..
There were some rallies this past week (mainly on Friday) at the Paramount studios lot, and other places worldwide… and they must have worked… according to TrekUnited (the site that is coordinating everything) over $3,000,000.00 has been raised…yes…you read that correctly..over three MILLION dollars has been raised so far. I’m making my donation on payday… have you made yours yet?
Lasik
So, Thursday I took the plunge. I’d been thinking about it for awhile, and finally decided to do it. It in this case, is Lasik eye surgery. I went through The 20/20 Institute. And while my eyes are still healing, so there is some fluctuation in vision, I’m pretty satisfied with the results so far.
At the moment, my eyes have been over-corrected, and I’ve gone from near-sighted to far-sighted. But, its getting better each day… Thursday after the surgery, I couldn’t focus on anything closer then probably 5 feet (right around there), Friday, by about 8 pm..I was able to focus on the computer screen (for short periods). Today, its better.
So far, the only thing that seems ‘worse’ is my night vision..I get really bad halos around lights, to the point where I don’t trust myself driving at night right now, but, that too is getting better each day.
Now… if Oakley would just hurry about and release the sunglasses that they are partnering with Motorola on (and hopefully, they’ll be real cool)
Donut! Donut!
So.. Saturday morning, Kael had been up for a little while, and we were playing in his room… out of the blue, he stands up..says “Donot” and heads towards the kitchen. He starts telling us repeatedly (and loudly) that he wants a donut for breakfast… We told him we didn’t have any donuts…but he didn’t really care, he kept repeating it, getting more and more agitated when we didn’t give him one (he started hopping from foot to foot..it was really cute actually)…so I took him to Krispy Kreme and got him a ‘donot’
This is really the first time that he’s gotten this worked up over a food. He’s gotten excited before, but we’ve always ‘suggested’ the food to him (asking him if he wants [food], or something like that)..this time, he just decided he wanted a donut and made sure we knew about it.
On a only semi-related note… we’ve updated the photo albums… you can see them here.
Survivor: Palau
Last night was the premier of the latest season of Survivor.
And as usual, we watched the first episode to see if there was anyone on the island that we liked enough to watch for the whole season (or until they get voted off)… and the answer… a big fat NO.
I think this series has outlived its entertainment value. We started watching towards the end of season 1 (I think.. it might have been 2)…and each season seems to get more and more…dull. The only ‘good’ seasons recently have been the All-Stars, and the season prior to that (and both of those mainly because of Rupert).
I think the way they started this season was interesting (all 20 contestants in one camp), but I think they ruined it, by separating them into two camps so soon..It would have been better to let the two full tribes interact together for at least the first couple of shows…and then separate them up.
And the one huge survivor question… how come none of these people practice starting a fire with sticks at about the same time they apply? have they never seen the damn show? do they not realize that they need to start a fire?
Kael’s 18 month checkup
Janice took Kael in for his 18 month checkup (the official followup to his ER visit is tomorrow with a real doctor)… He’s in excellent health..and the little guy was showing off for the PA…. Janice tells all about it here.
So..go read it (it saves me having to retype it.. and I get to see if Trackbacks are working)
… And back to the old
As much as I liked the style sheet the Firdamatic generated… It wasn’t consistent throughout the site (it only covered 2 of the templates used by MovableType)…so…its back to the old one…
I’m trying to teach myself enough CSS/HTML to redo the site myself.. so.. stay tuned… it could be entertaining to see how it turns out.. I also want to learn to take advantage of the dynamic publishing that MT 3 is capable of… so I’ll be playing with the site going forward (or.. I may do it the smart way.. and create a test blog to screw around on)
1 in 3 my a$$
so, the odds of winning a free song in the Pepsi/iTunes promotion are listed at one in three. Since its started, I’ve bought probably about 9 or 10 yellow top bottles (no 7-11 in my area has the fountain cups yet)….
and won… one song…
so…. to win one $.99 song…I’ve spent about $12.00 or so…. I think I’d be better off just buying an album from the iTMS…
Happy Valentine’s Day
This pictures says it all!
