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Lately, the supposed flash-based iPod has been in the spotlight, and most certainly its possible connections to the “anonymous parties” being sued over leaking information about an unreleased product. My theory is that the depicted remote-like apparatus is NOT a flash-based iPod but rather a remote, either to some sort of iPod or to AirTunes (the solution where you stream music from an application such as iTunes to a stereo via an AirPort Express). It makes more sense to not include a display if it’s not a remote, although I’d agree a display would still be good for controlling AirTunes.

Update: For clarity, the leak was not of the item discussed here. (This was never the point of the article any way. The point was that I think the item looks a lot more like an AirTunes remote than a flash iPod.)

Shortly following the recent news of my PowerBook G4 purchase (I got the 15″ SuperDrive version) the nutjobs came out.

“Downgrading, eh?” “But can it play Halo 2?” “Good choice. What did you sell your PC for?”

Is it so hard to believe that sometimes, people will want to stick to a mixed environment?

My Mac won’t have Paint Shop Pro. My PC won’t ship with free developer tools and bundled shareware (some fully licensed, some not). My Mac won’t have EditPad Pro. My PC won’t effortlessly connect to my cellphone over Bluetooth and download all my phone book contacts including pictures (in fact, my PC just gave up an eight month long bout with Bluetooth software somehow and started recognize my keyboard on startup again). My Mac’s not in the 90%+ percentile of the world market share. My PC doesn’t support the best programming framework and environment combination I’ve used to date. My Mac won’t run all the latest games. My PC doesn’t have Expos?©.

My PC is a sturdy iron hammer with a sometimes bug-infested wooden handle. My Mac is a swiss army knife in an aluminum enclosure. And me? I’m the kind of person who use both hammers and knives.

In my almost four years of knowing what the fuck a “blog” is, I’ve never liked the word, and I’ve never ever liked the words “emoticon” (how’s “smiley”?), or “blogroll” (”link list”) either. Now that I’ve actually heard them, I don’t think I could hate them more. People, those words are hideous, grammatically awful, and doesn’t look or sound all that great either. If you want this kind of community that we supposedly have (you know, just because we stick all kinds of stuff on our web pages and label it in a certain way) to flourish, we’re going to have to make up some words that don’t actually burn your ears. (Or we could just use “Weblog”, “smiley” and “link list”. But that would be convenient and understandable, and we can’t have that.)