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I was never a fan of cable modem internet service -- mainly because you share that copper wire with up to 100 of your neighbors -- but I now recant that condition after experiencing the Comcast Triple Play package overt the last three weeks.  I now have superlative broadband internet access, extensive HD cable programming and digital voice telephony.  My internet connection is so fast up and down that even the Speakeasy Speed Test gets whacked trying to make sense of it as you can see below:

On Friday, Apple released the second generation iPhone with 3G -- iPhone 2.0, if you will -- and it was an unmitigated disaster in every sense for any sensible person that values time over dilly-dallying and working over standing in line.

I've reached my end.  I give in.  I submit.  I'm cancelling my Verizon Voice and DSL service effective immediately.  I'm going with Comcast Cable's Triple Play special instead. 

Today it is time to meet the massive king of media storage: The LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ 301201U 2 TB USB 2.0/FireWire400/FireWire800 RAID System!  That's a mouthful to say, a handful to type -- and an eyeful of two terabytes of spinning storage glory for all your music and video files.

Too often we are forced to do work that only sustains us and does not win out wants.  How we combine the work into winning is the complex conundrum that fascinates few and frustrates many.

I am a proud owner of one of the first MacBook Pro 17-inch machines that made their debut two years ago -- yes, I have a dreaded "A Revision" box -- but that machine still sits next to me today and it has served me well through the writing of five books and it has never given me a moment of discontent... except for a bulging battery... but I never lost use of the machine in the battery swap with Apple.

Today, I am the prouder owner of what will likely be the last revision of the current MacBook Pro line before all the new Apple machines begin to look and feel like the MacBook Air. I couldn't be happier with my new "old style" MacBook Pro.

Since the American dollar is so devalued the world over, there's a United States fire sale going on, and the world at large is buying up our most cherished American icons.   Belgium's InBev -- bottlers of Beck's, Bass and Stella Artois -- offered $46 billion to purchase major United States bottler Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser, Michelob, Rolling Rock, Busch, Bacardi) and its American eagle branded business. 

One of the greatest inventions for my new seventeen inch Mac Book Pro -- new Mac Book Pro 17-inch LCD review coming soon -- is my new Option GT Ultra Express modem from at&t that allows me to go "3G Wireless" and have fast internet connectivity the world over. 

Is Apple's Original Boy Genius, Steve Jobs, dying?  He looked purely awful and wan and bony during yesterday's WWDC conference as he presented the new, and rather bland, iPhone 2.0.

With gasoline peaking at $4.00USD a gallon -- more than twice as much as a year ago -- it makes one wonder if that devastating blow to the commoner's pocket is a governmental feint to hide the insidious loss of more valuable and basic liberties.