For reasons unexplained, I was on the iTunes Music Store, happened to click the American Idol section and remembered how offended I was at the performance of John Lennon's Imagine.  And I was compelled to write the following review:

He's got a good voice, but I'm sorry... there are songs that should be off limits to the contestants and John Lennon's Imagine is one of them.  I find it highly disrespectful and pretentious of a 16 year-old to try and rewrite one of the most important and cathartic melodies ever penned.  The American Idol producers need to impose a moral authority, as protectors of art, to stop this kind of nonsense.  What worries me is that we'll see a lot of this butchery this season now that the Lennon/McCartney catalog is available to the contestants.

Who's with me?

It's not quite been eight months since iPhone entered my life, but it's close enough and I've been thinking about this blog post for a couple of weeks.  After only having the phone for a day, I made a few predictions that I felt would be fun to revisit to see if I should quit my job and become a palm reader.  So let's dive into it...

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Now that I've had a day to get to know iPhone, here's what I think is in store for us iPhone owners over the next six months. Most of these I think will be major updates that will coincide with the release of OS X Leopard.

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Quite honestly, I never intended to buy an iPhone on launch day. In fact, since I'm a Verizon customer with six more months on my contract, I planned on waiting until the holiday season before thinking about buying an iPhone. I figured that would give plenty of time for the kinks to be worked out of the phone and the AT&T service. So I found myself in line at the local AT&T Wireless store at 5:15PM on Friday, succumbed to the hype.

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