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I know you were all waiting with bated breath to see this:

Thanks, Jen!

This article (thanks to SVN for the link) poses some interesting points about the state of the internet today. He seems to think that ‘the net’ is dead, and everyone finds it boring and frustrating. I’ve got some things to say about that.

The whole problem is that the author assumes that everyone reading his article perceives ‘the net’ to be comprised solely of those sites who had staggering IPOs last year despite a complete lack of revenue. Anyone who didn’t see this year’s fall coming must have been a complete idiot. My definition of the net is this: sites like ours, and any other site devoted entirely to the distribution of knowledge, opinion, and joy. We had it first; the hackers, the geeks, the artists. It was ours. We built it (not me personally, I was like 15 when this all started). It would only make sense that when corporations and people with big ideas of big money came along seeking only to fatten their wallets instead of making the world a better place, that their brief world would fall. Now it’s back in our hands. And we now know what to do with it.

His first annoying comment is: ‘stocks don’t lie.’ My response? Oh, yes they very well do. A company’s stock price usually has very little to do with how the company is actually performing, and more to do with how the media perceives them to be performing (case in point: the recent drop in Apple’s stock price).

And this: ‘I keep waiting for my brain to come up with answers about how to beat the conundrum of how something like this column, with its built-in ephemeral nature, could get a much better return in print, where it might already be late, than on the Web, for which it’s perfect.

And here’s what I come up with: Nothing. It just makes no sense. None at all. But it’s the unbreakable reality that no one has been able to solve. It has only gotten worse, not better, as the years go by.’

He’s wrong only because he never got it in the first place. None of them ever did. And now they can’t figure it out. And I just can’t stop laughing. :>

First of all… What the fuck is afterhours trading and who thought of that crap?

For anyone who doesn’t know, Apple stock dipped almost 50% this evening in after hours trading… and of course the Media is running around publishing the general down fall of Apple crap.
The “little” stock dip this evening has caused the genius journalistic minds over at zdnet to publish crap like this.

Ok, so who thinks ZDnet is trying to buy hits using an ‘Apple has died’ story? I do. I hear that Newsweek sells twice as many issues everytime they have an Apple story or article gracing the cover… I suppose that the journalists feel they “know” better than anyone what companies are still “living” and which ones are just now “dying”. How could you live with yourself publishing utter bullshit like that??? I couldn’t.

I would buy serious loads of Apple stock tomorrow morning if I could get some money together, but as usual I can’t.


I think i’ts just another good week to be at Apple. 🙂

‘Sony Computer Entertainment America, the company’s U.S. unit, said late Wednesday that it would only be able to dole out 500,000 PS2 video game units on its Oct. 26 North American launch date, half of what the firm had expected to ship.'(read the whole article here)

Damn. I was so hoping that my plan to wait and buy a PS2 for both Playstation games and DVD playing was going to happen sooner than later. Oh well. I’m still going to wait for it…. Maybe I should just wait for the Nintento cube thing… After all, I like Zelda more than GranTurismo…

On a non-technical internet related note: my wife and I are going to have another baby. :> We’re pretty stoked, and I’m sure you are too. Don’t worry. This isn’t turning into some sort of online journal or anything. I just thought I’d share.

Also, the rest of the site is up and running. There will probably be some minor tweaks here and there, so bear with us. The admin tool also has been tweaked, but you don’t get to see that.

In case you’ve tried to send me email via the ‘kev’ link above, and got an error, that’s been fixed. So again, I welcome any sort of email. Just let me know what’s on your mind.

I can’t believe I’ve never seen this site before: As The Apple Turns. If you’d like to see a little less agressive version of what we tend to write about, with more of a slick writing style, check it out. It’s like a soap-opera for fruit.

Yahoo! thinks you need the internet in taxicabs. Or at least people in New York do. They’ve started outfitting cabs (purple, not yellow) in NYC with Palm VIIs. Apparently, people like ’em.

You can’t do any real surfing with them. You can just get things like the weather, sports scores, movie times, stock prices, etc. Stuff you should really know in a cab. They’re tethered to the back of the driver’s seat and -this is the best part- if a thief tries to take the Palm by way of force, the tether is wrapped around the motherboard, and it shatters into a million peices. Awesome. I’m going to try to do that in a couple of weeks when I’m out there. Wish me luck.

It’s friday night, and I’m downloading a beta unix-based OS via Hotline over DSL, while watching The Matrix in the dark. Jeez. Who’d of thought I’d ever be that much of a dork?

Those wonderful writers over at ABCNews.com have put out yet another literary masterpeice. This one’s about Transmeta and the Crusoe chip being used in the new Sony VAIO. Only don’t expect a cohesive article. Fragments of sentences include: “Intel, the world’s leading chip maker.” That was the whole sentence. In the middle of the paragraph, for no reason. They’re brilliant over there, I tell you.