Honeymoon Photos

My photo is in the LA Times!

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Pics from my Europe trip with Sophia

I Just Got Engaged

A couple of days ago I got engaged. I'm going to marry a smart, independent, loyal, honest, caring, and giving woman. She'll make a wonderful wife and a great mother. The past two years I've spent with her have been fantastic. We've traveled to Cancun, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, and Tokyo. This May, we're going to spend two weeks together exploring Europe. Life is good.

iTunes vs. Kindle

So I just got my Kindle and love it! I plowed through three books in the first week I had it and haven't slowed down since. It's really easy to find and download books and the e-ink display is sharp and crisp. Best of all, it's not chained to iTunes.

Here's why iTunes sucks; every song is encoded as AACs, which is a propriety format owned by Apple. This means the songs you bought and paid good money for won't play on anything but an iPod. That sucks, but what really sucks is Apple's crappy customer service.

My iTunes account was recently hacked by some d-bag who loves Chris Brown (really, Chris Fking Brown?). They rang up $40 in fraudulent charges. Apple's response; all sales are final. It was like pulling teeth to get a refund. I trusted Apple with my credit card and they couldn't protect my financial information. Not only that, but they didn't care enough to address my concerns or respond to my emails. Good times.

I'm sure Crapple will be rolling out their own eReader sometime soon. I hope it fails miserably. I'm sick of being locked into Apples proprietary system, not being able to do what I want with my digital content, and having to fight for decent customer service. From now on, all my mp3s will come from Amazon (which will play on ANY device).