…since Elvis Presley died.

…since Elvis Presley died.

Heretics are rarely excommunicated these says. Instead, they go on book tours.
Why would a person encourage their child to look like this, or worse yet, like this?
Unadulterated male feminization. God help us.
Jose Padilla is found guilty on charges he conspired to kill people in an overseas jihad and to fund and support overseas terrorism.
Just off the wires…

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) – One of the president’s daughters is getting married.
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush announced Thursday that their daughter, Jenna, is engaged to Henry Hager of Virginia.
No wedding date has been set, said Mrs. Bush’s press secretary, Sally McDonough.
Jenna, one of the president’s twin daughters, became engaged to Hager, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hager of Richmond, Va., on Wednesday.
You think Mr. Hager has an FBI file yet?
A simple noise gives rescuers renewed hope.
Rescuers searching for six trapped coal miners got two pieces of hopeful news — images of an intact chamber with potentially breathable air and the sound of mysterious vibrations in the mountain.
Officials were studying the results of air quality samples taken from a third borehole, and were expected to release their findings Thursday, 10 days after the cave-in.
Video images from the same shaft showed an undamaged section complete with a ventilation curtain that divides intake air from exhaust air. Behind the curtain, in theory, the men might have found refuge and breathable air.
You’ve got to admire the never-give-up attitude of those who are involved in this process. 10 days without food or water is a long time, but miracles do happen.
Peru fell victim to a big time earthquake overnight, now valued at 8.0 on the Richter scale.
Rescuers struggled across a shattered countryside on Thursday to reach victims of a magnitude-8.0 earthquake that killed at least 355 people. More than 1,500 people were reported injured and the Red Cross said the toll was expected to rise.
Blame the aging infrastructure. And even though the U.S. is a lot younger of a country than Peru, we’ve got our problems too. I don’t think I need to mention our ‘bridge problem’. One quick hard jolt in Seattle and we could easily see casualties like those in Peru.
For the last few days I’ve battled with an upgrade from Movable Type 3.3 to the new 4.0 version. Needless to say, it didn’t go so well, or at least I thought, and for a moment in time I feared that all of PunditGuy would be lost. But, the gods looked approvingly upon my database and all was saved.
Yesssssss.
So, now, back to blogging.

So, I’m sitting at work today, plugging away on “things” when all of a sudden, I get an email from Apple. “Ah, well, let’s see what this is about”, I say. I open the email and there it is.

Yeah, that’s the new iMac. Pretty, isn’t it? Well, after gazing at that conveniently delivered email from my friends at Apple, and then clicking like a good doobie over to the website to get a closer look, I became frustrated. Not with the design of the website. Not with the cool-ly embedded Quicktime video demonstration. No, those were just great. What i was frustrated with was Apple, and their release cycle. Why, you ask? It’s because I bought an Intel iMac back in February 2006, and today, that machine is old. Old because it only has one core. Old because it only came with 250GB of drive space. Old because it can only handle 2GB of RAM. And that got me thinking about my Macbook Pro that I got in July of 2006, only to have the Core 2 Duo Intel Macbook Pro’s ship two months later in September. I don’t fault Apple for their innovation. Heck, that’s why I bought a Mac. What’s frustrating is the thought of throwing down a couple of thousand dollars for a machine only to find out that in a few months a newer, more powerful machine is available for the same price. At this rate, the iMac that shipped today will be outdated in November when (alongside the release of Leopard), Steve Jobs says “oh, and one more thing” as he unveils a new Quad Core iMac that comes standard with 1 Terabyte of drive space. Watch…it’ll happen.
I know I’m just whining because I don’t have the moolah to send to Cupertino. But I wonder if I’m alone in feeling just a bit miffed at these rather frequent machine upgrades?
Oh, and one more thing. I bought my iPod color 20GB version from the Apple store one day. Guess what came out the next day? iPod Video.