“But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I’ll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest.”
— From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Today’s Quote: Saint-Exupéry
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Unlocked iPhones available in the US–FINALLY!
This is indeed great news: Apple is now going to sell unlocked iPhones in the US! This greatly simplifies my life in that now I don’t have to figure out how to travel to the UK or Canada to buy one. Having to buy a locked phone and commit myself to an expensive, multi-year contract for thousands of minutes of call time I’ll never use was ridiculous (and should be illegal, frankly). Now I can pay more up front, but spend a lot less in the long run.
Of course, I don’t happen to have $749.00 lying around at the moment. And then I’ll probably want to wait for the iPhone 5 now anyway (and hope it will be sold unlocked). Sigh…
Check out the story on Macrumors.com
A Sad Announcement…
Japanese voice actress Kawakami Tomoko-sama has passed away after a long illness at the all-too-young age of 41 (that’s younger than I am…). As with most voice actors, she had voiced dozens of anime and other roles over the years and her many characters are familiar to any true-blue otaku. I am particularly sad about her passing because she voiced the role of Hikaru Shindo in my all-time favorite anime, Hikaru no Go.
My thanks go to her for her life and work, and my prayers, sympathy and condolences to her family and friends.
Read more at Anime News Network.
Today’s Quote: Seneca
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“Money, which ever since it began to be regarded with respect, has caused the ruin of the true honour of things; we become alternately merchants and merchandise, and we ask, not what a thing truly is, but what it costs.”
–Seneca
This news is HUGE…
This morning, Apple kicked off their annual World Wide Developers Conference with a keynote address. In it, the likes of Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall introduced, demoed and talked about a host of really cool upcoming stuff in Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and what promises to be an amazing new service, iCloud.
But what I think is the most important key news item is that iOS 5 will be “PC free”.
Just checking in…
I realized that I’ve not put anything up recently other than quotes. Sigh…
I’ve actually been rather busy and/or distracted lately, so haven’t bothered wanting to write. In the evenings, I’ve kept myself busy with several projects the most interesting of which has been painting miniatures again.
Today’s Quote: Jefferson
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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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