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… The room is dark except for the soft glow of the LCD clock. A few weeks ago, that was an LED glow. On average, that old Westinghouse LED alarm clock was slapped three times every weekday morning for 20 years. That’s 15,600 slaps. I wonder if they test them for that much abuse. I wonder why I think of stuff like this when I lay awake in the morning rather than sleep. The dog wants to go out.

Got some new toys at work… a new SQL tool, new VPN setup, and a full Citrix setup with all my software! Great – now I can work 24/7 from anywhere!

Put my right foot on the back bumper of my pickup, started to step up into the truck bed. *Snap* Ouch. Sounded like a twig snapping, felt like a rubber band breaking inside my foot, followed by burning. Turns out I ripped a ligament, which hurts much worse than when I broke my other foot a couple years back.

One of my favorite applications for the iPhone was called Darkroom Pro. When Apple updated their OS to version 3.0 last week, this application and many others, did not update with it. I since came to find out that this is more of Apples quirky decision making about what can and cannot be sold through their app store. The Darkroom camera application has been there for some time now, and has over 700,00 users, and most of them give the app a very high rating as do I. Apple recently discovered (I guess) that the way they harness the image stabilazation in the 3rd party app may not be 100% in line with their interpretation of the application (interface) rules. The link above (Darkroom) gives all the details, and it seems very trivial to me. Darkroom is one of several apps like this being banned, and potentially affects millions of users. My image of Apple is rotting fast with this and several incidents like this in the past month or two. They just seem so cold, callous, and unconcerned, even when potentially millions of people are involved. I can’t be the only one that feels this way, but it probably doesn’t matter as they likely have enough money to survive many years of public discontent. And for some reason there are a host of drones that believe Apple is god, and if Apple banishes an app from grace to the outer darkness beyond the app store, then so be it. Apple has spoken.