Before you read any further, Tony Pierce wrote a really excellent piece yesterday that you should read if you haven't already. He touches on something that I have a lot of strong ideas about (and that were supposed to be the focus of this blog originally) that I won't get into now, but still intend to eventually.

Also, Keira-Anne has a very poignant piece about a man she met while walking the dogs in the park and the difficulty of getting established/living well in Vancouver for most, and the importance of maintaining perspective for those of us who are more fortunate.

They both deserve your attention.

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Yesterday I got approved for a $5000 Aeroplan gold visa card!

$5000 as a limit is wayy too much for me. There's no way I could cover that over a couple of months even, so I'll never plan to spend to the limit. It IS nice however, to have the opportunity there. I could feel comfortable now saving $1000 for a Mac, and putting the rest of it on the card and paying it off over a month or two.

I need to look into virtualization on the mac now... which from what I understand isn't too difficult and works pretty well. It looks like our office (and our online properties) is/are going to be moving to the .NET platform, so I'd need access to a Windows environment from home. That appears to be the final hiccup in this PC vs. Mac debate.

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I tried fixing my iPhone once again this past weekend. Again, no luck.

And starting Sunday night, it appears that a number of my songs won't play. On some of them it says it's playing but there is no audio output. On others, it won't even let me push the play button. Yet the rest of them seem to work fine.

Slowly but surely this phone is losing all its functionality.

I'm going down to Buffalo on March 29th, should I replace it?

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I bought some compressed air last night and tried blowing the shit out of my Wii in hopes that it really WAS a dust issue and flooding the thing with air might fix it. No luck on this either.

My friend with the same problem is currently in the process of burning a downloaded copy of the game, so I'll know within a half hour whether or not this game will ever be playable on my system or not.

If the downloaded copy doesn't work, I am thinking I might sell my Wii. It's a fairly drastic decision, but I play it so little as it is, and have justified keeping it around up to this point by saying to myself 'just wait until Smash Bros. is out.'

I think I could use the $800+ I could probably get for it more than I could use the little amount of joy I get out of only looking at the damn thing.

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Finally, another thing I did this weekend was update my recorded play counts, and I intend to do a long post about this today/tomorrow so look forward to that :)

That is all. Thanks for reading!


UPDATE: IT WORKS!!!!!