I’ve been considering an iPod purchase recently, and I noticed that Amazon has cut prices on the 5.5 generation iPods by about $13 for the 30GB version and $18 for the 80GB.
So yes, this is only a 5% discount, but I thought this was of note because I’ve rarely seen iPods below the standard retail price. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the iPhone announcement had something to do with it, considering the recent buzz about how it might impact iPod sales.
I recently found a message from my ISP in my Junk Mail folder, with the subject “Spam – How It’s Growing and What We’re Doing About It.”
Oh, the irony. 
I’m just getting into .NET Framework 3.0 development (that is, I will be, as soon as I’m able to get the SDK to actually install 
), and I found Microsoft’s “Ready for a New Day” page (intended to help developers get started with .NET Framework 3.0, Office 2007, and ASP.NET AJAX development) very helpful.
It includes links to, among other things, download the .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package (which is for running .NET Framework 3.0 applications), the Windows SDK (which is for developing them), and the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (which is for integrating .NET Framework 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005).
This .NET Framework 3.0 stuff is very exciting, especially the XAML stuff.
By the way, considering that this post contains 7 instances of “.NET Framework 3.0″, anyone know if there’s some sort of acronym that I can be using? 
I am just amazed at the seeming absurdity shown by some people as they fight to be one of the first to own Sony’s new PlayStation 3 console. People sleeping in parking lots, coming an hour early so that they can get a ticket that gives them a chance to purchase the PS3, etc.
I just don’t get it: why spend all that time, effort, and energy when you can just walk into a store and purchase the thing a week later?
I found this link at Jeremy Visser’s blog: the simple yet fun Falling Sand Game. If you’re anything like me, I think you’ll find it very entertaining!