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There’s something soothing about freshly-roasted coffee beans…

Capped off a great birthday with a venture to Granite City Food & Brewery. Cool atmosphere, GREAT food and a few Growler refills! Thanks to my lovely wife who made it a special day…as well as the friends that joined us!

My reaction to Apple’s sparkly new iPad?

I think it’s a glorified iPod/iPhone. It does everything an iPod Touch does, removes the phone capabilities of the iPhone but adds the basics of a laptop with no camera. If a laptop requires a backpack or briefcase for travel, and an iPhone requires a pocket, the iPad needs a purse…..or…”man bag”.

Realistically, it’s Apple’s answer to the NetBook movement as well as Amazon’s Kindle 2. They just vamped it up a bit to do anything everyone else is doing…and do it better (looking).

At the same time, you can’t strap it to your arm and go for a jog.

But it certainly keeps us cascading toward a Star Trek era.

Overall, not too exciting…and I don’t plan on owning one.

I’d rather pair my MacBook Pro with an iPhone.

Quick little blip of what I’ve been working on. A topical series for 24-7 called Living a Life That Matters…