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As I alluded to in my last post, I bought a MacBook last week. “But”, I hear you say, “don’t you already HAVE a perfectly good computer?” And of course, the answer is “Yes,” but I had several reasons for getting a new one.

First and foremost, I’m a student, and as such have several hours of class each week. Most of those classes require me to take extensive notes for at least an hour. Since I’ve been using a computer for 15 years (since I was 6, I believe), I’m a fairly fast typist. I also have terrible handwriting, and write (relatively) slowly. So the laptop helps me take better notes faster than when I’m writing.

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“Sounds like you’re a narcoleptic.”
“I suffer from sudden uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep?”
“What’s the other one?”
“Necrophiliac”

Some great news from TV land (of which I am a frequent visitor). Pushing Daisies won its timeslot yesterday with an awesome 9.2/14 rating/share, which was 12.83 million viewers, with big numbers in the key demos. Those are all great numbers, which is awesome because Pushing Daisies is the best new show of the season. Hopefully, those numbers will go up next week as people tell their friends about how awesomely awesome it was. Just like you will do now. NOW.

Great. Now that you’re back, onto some news and comment.

• Calacanis is still a twat.
• Microsoft wants your health records. There are worse people to give it to…
• AppleInsider and Think Secret make the rather obvious observations that Leopard will ship about as late as Apple can get away with. They probably want every day to ponder fixing the obnoxious Dock.
• In other Apple news, lots of people want to use iPhones on networks that aren’t AT&T. Like people here in Canada. Rogers, get it together.
• Blackberry maker RIM has a not-bad quarter. iPhone hasn’t taken off in business yet…

So it seems that Microsoft is coming out with the Zune2 (my moniker, not theirs). Gruber’s got some comments, as always. The first was by almost all counts a giant flop, though that’s hardly a reason to stop trying. But it seems they haven’t dealt with many of the major-er issues, like most of the uselessness of the WiFi (though syncing is a step up) and the idiocy of the 3-Plays-or-3-Days policy. And as if people didn’t have enough fun with the term “squirting,” they’re introducing us to the “squircle.”

Other News

• The notMac challenge, which was to create a free alternative to dotMac, has been completed.[via] Now I just need a spare Mac to run as a server.
• WikiGroaning. HMS Dauntless | H.M.S. Pinafore
• A bike-mower. Apparently, it’s a thing.
  

And a quote: Microsoft should switch to the vacuum cleaner business where people actually want products that suck. — Bruno Bratti [via]