iTunes 8 – Not much of a genius so far

Too many people expect too much from Apple these days. After giving you Intel processors, updated MacBooks and a freakin’ phone, Apple fanboys are never satisfied. Hell, even the investors are all crazy over Steve Job’s appearance. Perhaps the corporation in Cupertino can’t cure AIDS, end poverty and bring world peace at every meeting with the press they have. Be freakin’ glad that they are giving you stuff for free Not only they have blessed our behinds with iTunes 8, they finally managed to give us HD TV shows (NBC included) AND a free firmware update! (unless you are a first generation iPod touch user still on 1.0 lol).

Still, there needs to be more nitpicking before the day is done.

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Otakon 2008 – The lengthy re-cap. More like a review.

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I’m in Minneapolis right now for the Twins-Yankees game (yes, I know they aren’t doing very well, but I am a fan, no matter what) and other site seeing. For now, this gives me a lot of time to think about Otakon 2008, the convention of otaku generation version 15.0.  First, I’ll discuss the good things about Otakon, the bad and the really F&#$ed up. More after the jump-off.

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