1. CNN.com and their claim as a credible news agency…marked by a recent trend where the word “S3X” has to appear on the homepage at least one time every day. Clearly a corporate initiative to boost ratings.
2. Watching a cool hip hop group change into a pop-music-machine, complete with light up leather jumpsuits and an apparent LOVE of Auto-tune.
3. Bobbing my head to a few of said pop-songs. What can I say, it’s catchy.
4. The fact that every rapper seems obligated to sing some heartfelt anthem, but only with a very heavy-handed dose of Auto-tune.
5. Lazy dog owners who have turned every neighborhood sidewalk into a canine-sponsored mine field now that the snow is melting.

There are a number of people who are looking to Apple’s new data center(s) in North Carolina as home to a new cloud-based Apple Service. Speculation ranges from hosting all of a user’s iTunes purchases on the cloud, allowing them to transfer it to their devices whenever they wish. Another theory is that iTunes will launch a streaming music service paid by subscription. Others look at a recent email purportedly by Steve Jobs, in which he states that Mobile Me will get better in 2011. Then, there are these guys, who come, seemingly out of nowhere and claim that apple will actually make Safari, Apple’s web browser, the only way to access iTunes-this done through a side-bar (because everyone loves another side bar…). So what’s really going on here? Continue Reading »

1. Office shut downs in other cities for 1″ of snow when they call for 20″ in Chicago and business as usual.
2. 3D AutoCAD…if a start-up in Denver can make 3D accessible, shouldn’t the industry “leaders” be able to do it too?
3. Traveling throughout Europe with my Mac problem-free, only to drop it in my living room on new years. (yeah, this is not new, but the hate builds over time..let me tell you)
4. Realizing that my 8-core, 8GB ram Desktop at work is still slower than my abused, 4-year-old Mac.
5. Has Microsoft been on the hate list yet, because if not, I hate that I overlooked that.