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After a year with the Blackberry Curve 8310, I decided to bite the bullet, and my wallet, and upgrade to the Apple iPhone 3GS.

I do have a good reason for doing this.  I’ve been considering buying a laptop for the past couple of years.  With the iPhone, and it’s wi-fi capability, I basically have a laptop in the palm of my hand.  So, I’m essentially saving money by not buying a new laptop and buying this phone instead.  At least, that’s what I’m telling myself. 

I can’t say enough about the difference in performance of this phone compared to the Blackberry.  Don’t get me wrong, I liked the Curve.  If I could have had access to a 3G network or wifi using the Curve, I would have kept it for a lot longer than I did.  But now that I took the plunge and bought the iPhone, I can honestly say I don’t foresee needing a new phone for a few years…(at least until the next generation comes out.  I keed! I keed!)

I’ve been away from Apple products for about 10 years.  In the early days of IRC, I was “the Mac guy” who everyone made fun of, all in good fun of course, but I always stood by the platform and it’s stability.  That is until the Mac I had (an old LC II, with an 80MB hard drive, 16MB RAM, and a blazing speed of 16mHZ) just got to be too sluggish for all the things I wanted to do, like listen to mp3’s, or multi-task by maybe checking email AND browsing the web at the same time.  There’s a novel idea!  With that old LC II, it was next to impossible to do more than one task at a time.  But back in 1992, that thing smoked!

When my brother bought the necessary components to have a Windows based PC built by a good friend of mine, I’ve been exclusively using the Windows platform ever since, with the exception of when I worked in video production and used Macs for editing.

So, the next few days will be spent playing with the phone (and recharging it numerous times- the only negative thing I have to say about this phone is the battery life), finding all the cool free(!) apps (any suggestions, by the way?), and getting used to how it operates.

This is a fresh install of Wordpress.  After my last one was completely fuxored, I decided to just start from scratch.  I still have to import the previous entries, but I’m not sure I’ll even bother.  It seems a shame to throw away over 9 years of posts, but whatever.  I’ll get around to it someday.

You know, this Facebook thing that seems to have taken over everyone’s social networking lives truly is an amazing thing.  I’ve reconnected with a lot of people recently, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

Today, for example, I’m meeting with an old friend.  We kind of lost touch with each other and haven’t seen or spoken to each other for about 15 years.  We’re meeting up in Schaumburg, which is about halfway between where each of us lives, although it’s a little more of a drive for him.

I’m excited and a little nervous.  It’s a weird feeling when you get together with someone after not seeing them for so long.  We were good friends back then, dare I say best friends, but back then, things just ended sort of oddly.

A lot has happened in the past 15 years, for the both of us.  Hopefully we can get back on track.