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It is a big day today! On this paramount June 9th, the planets have aligned. It is my 23rd birt

hday today, and Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco, CA! With a big Apple event like this, it is customary for Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, to give a keynote presentation. Sort of an Apple “State of the Union” if you will.

Today, however, it is widely expected that Mr. Jobs will unveil a new iPhone. For this, I am very excited. The key feature that is expected of this new iPhone hardware is support for 3G cellular data networks. In other words, mobile broadband, which is relatively fast compared to the EDGE network currently em

ployed by the iPhone, which I have heard called mobile molasses.

Other rumors include GPS support and video conferencing, which would be awesome, but I find unlikely. My reasoning for that is battery life. I have a Garmin nüvi, and it’s battery can go for about 4 hours. Now throw a cell phone into that. Exactly. And as far as video conferencing, I chalk that up to battery issues as well.

There are plenty of other rumors about the new iPhone, but I will not cover them all.

The other big story for the developer conference is Apple shedding more light on th

e iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), the iPhone 2.0 firmware, and the App Store, which will allow iPhone and iPod touch users to purchase applications over-the-air for their devices.

All in all, today is a very exciting birthday for me!

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So sorry for the lack of posting lately. I’ve been super duper extremely busy the past couple weeks, and blogging was pretty much the last thing on my mind.

Well, to recap a few recent happenings, Karen turned 21 years old on February, 28th. We were going to go to Sioux City to celebrate, but because of weather conditions, we stayed in Vermillion. So we went to the Pub downtown and Karen tried a couple drinks. Then we went over to a friends for our weekly ritual of watching LOST.

Then, we were pleasantly graced with not one, but two snow days. What a way to enter the month of March! Fortunately, the dismal blizzard kept Karen from going on a choir trip, but also sacked us into Vermillion for the weekend. We are going to make our escape to Pierre in about 7 or 8 hours.

So yes, we are heading home for Spring Break. Exciting, huh? They say Pierre, SD is the new Cancun! Yeah right. Anyway, I’ll let you in on my big secret for Spring Break fun…I’m getting my wisdom teeth extracted on Thursday the 8th. Fun, no?

I knew you’d say no. I concur. Toodles for now.

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