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So Apple make the foray into the Tablet market with the release of the iPad. Looks more like a cross between an iPhone and a Kindle on steroids. Like seriously?

Also sounds like a Feminine Hygiene Product – I mean come on… Will it live up to the hype? The marketplace is so majorly full of laptops, netbooks, smartphones, homing pigeons with GPS capabilities…for fuck sake – when is it gonna end?

Apple's iPad. Bloody Hell...

Isn’t the fact that we are all on call 24/7 and expected to be constantly “on” enough already? What happened to reading a good old paperback? I don’t care if it makes similar noises when you turn the digital page, it still is never quite the same…

A major drawback for me already is that the device does not support Flash. Now come on Apple… so many sites use even Flash Lite to operate sites and aspects of sites, non-flash enabled devices in this day and age are about 6 balls behind the 8-ball. For a company so innovative in some respects, one can be so backward in others (ahem*cough* the cameras on iPhones still lag behind any other device with a 5+MP capability). Read the rest of this entry »

Well Happy New Year and all that jazz, but what the heck do we call the incoming decade?

I mean for the prior 10 years we labelled them the Noughties (or the Naughties as I think is more fitting). But we are at a standpoint where there is a whole nother bunch of years coming to the fore.

Happy New Year Kids!

We could call them the Tens – but that is so lame. The Teens has been suggested, but I mean come on…we aren’t all teenage girls who like cutesy terms of endearment. Blech! The Tweens would only apply for the next few years – in which case one could not define an entire decade in the summary of a single term as we could with the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and so forth…

I have thought about this and IMHO I believe that the best way to deal with this conundrum is to just label it The Pubic Years and be done with all the whining. If you got a better option, then by all means lemme know. But till then, deal with it. Running out of ideas here…!

So have yourselves a happy new year and may the Lords of Lightning spark it up with much prosperity for y’all. Here’s to more of what you DO want, and less of what you DON’T!

x tDA