Big Apple day and I’m excited so let’s get to it.

First on the list, a QuickTime update which includes the long awaited advanced AAC encoder. Good start here. Now let’s hope it’s not long until everyone else picks up on this format.

The iPod got a revision. They had demos in store today so I got to play with it. Tiny, slick, and more storage. Why on Earth did they get rid of standard FireWire ports though? Now you’ll have to carry around an Apple specific one just to connect to anything. In any case, does anyone want to buy my 20GB version? Getting rid of it cheap.

iTunes has been updated to version 4.0. Many Apple Music Store (talk about later) features integrated into it and support for AAC. The Rendezvous library sharing sounds great. Will try at work tomorrow and get back to ya.

Last (but certainly not least), Apple’s long rumored music service, the Apple Music Store, is in play and it’s all highly integrated with iTunes. Unlike most of the other music services out there, AppleMusic is a “pay per song” instead of a subscription based service. This is so gonna work! Look for a lot of other services to follow in this plan. $0.99 per song is not a lot to ask for when you’re talking about singles. Complete albums are a different story though. I’m not paying $9.99 for the whole thing. $7 would have been close to pushing it for me, but I would have gone with it. $10 is out of the question. What do you think? I haven’t been able to try the service yet because connecting is a royal bitch right now. I want my exclusive Alicia Keys!!! I’ll try again and let you know how it goes.

Of course, Apple also released all of this without having the complimenting ad campaign to go with it, so check that out to and tell me what you think. Pretty goofy if you ask me. Someone needs to smack that little kid singing Lose Yourself.

So there it is. A definite home run if you ask me. As say they, “It’s music to my ears.” But, by far, the best quote I’ve seen out there out so far… “Now let’s get back to making computers!”

I am at work and the race is at home. Life is grand.

Jeez, it’s such a nice Southern California day today. I’m glad I get to spend it at work with just myself and 14 computers.

365 days, 324 posts, 4 designs, and 1 sub-title change later, the-journals.com celebrates its one year birthday. See how lame the first day was and notice that within the last year it hasn’t gotten any better. Unfortunately for everyone, I’m going to continue to bring this blog to you. Don’t worry, though, because I’d like to think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve. Good luck to us all…

It’s amazing how much a video game can manipulate me. I’ve been playing Aggressive Inline lately and all I can think about is how I was so into that stuff during the early high school years. Since I’m wanting to get more active (and work off the gut), maybe it’s not that bad of an idea to pick up some skates and see how that goes. Who know? This might just be one of those things I get interested in real quick and lose interest in even quicker.

I figure I’d show some support for the Avs since they lost tonight and are forced to play a game 7 tomorrow. It should be back to the normal template tomorrow night. Go Avs!

Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. I’ve been revisiting it all day. Here’s an article on it too.

I just got my confirmation e-mail for E3. Is anyone else heading out to this in May? What are you looking forward to?

It’s over. Completely over. At least I’m going away from it feeling somewhat productive.

Friday (had it off), I was expecting to install new tires on my car, but that didn’t happen. Turns out they didn’t order it in time and now I’m gonna have to wait until Tuesday/Wednesday. Kind of pissed me off because I specifically set aside time that day to get it done. Now it will have to wait for next weekend. Friday night was pretty boring. Drinking with friends. Watched Blue Crush. Mmm… blondes.

Saturday, my friends and I woke up early (relatively) to go hiking. Since we can get pretty unproductive together, so things didn’t get started until 3pm. We drove up to Chantry Flats and hiked in about 1.5 miles. I have a lot of video and stills from it so I’ll try and get it up here as soon as I can. On the way back, we passed this older guy who asked us if we went all the way to the top. I’m about 15 pounds overweight and wearing a Hawaiian shirt. What do you think? It turns out “all the way to the top” is actually 11 miles. Sounds doable so we’re gonna keep trying. If the shit goes down, though, and we get lost in the woods, I’m eating Danny first.

After a quick stop to a sushi bar, we met up with a couple of other friends who were celebrating their one year anniversary by going out to the Irwindale Speedway to check out a race. Yes, they’re white. Sitting in the grand stands, all I could think about was something a someone (originally from Atlanta) told me last week: “The rednecks here are the same as the ones back South, but without the accent and wearing less plaid.” This was a magnificent showcase of Caucasian at its best… and I was a part of it.

This morning I woke up early (again relative) and met up with the family to celebrate the Easter thing. Nothing big. We went out for lunch and came back to my parent’s house to spend time with each other. Later on I met up with a friend and checked out Malibu’s Most Wanted (pass on this one).

That pretty much brings me up to this point… sitting on the toilet and posting to my blog. Oh, happy Easter.

…na na na na, hey hey, goodbye. Since both Anaheim and Detroit are my most hated teams in the NHL, you can imagine how torn I was when they played each other in the first round. I think Detroit getting swept in four games was really the best outcome, though. I don’t know whether to give them a broom to clean up the mess or a golf club to work on their game of real play now. That being said, I hope the Ducks burn just as bad in this next round when (if) they go up against Colorado. Go Avs!