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So, my wife and I celebrated our honeymoon in a very much needed vacation. It was very fun–relaxing and scenic. To anyone who hasn’t gone, you should take a cruise. The size of the cruise ship is large enough such that you don’t really feel the waves. We both thought we were going to get motion sick, but nope. I will post pictures shortly with more detail on what we did–seriously, it was super fun.

Anyhow, while we were gone, the world didn’t slow down with us.

Apple came out with some cool new products. But for me, the biggest Apple story was the $200 cheaper price of the iPhone. That sucked, but at least they didn’t change the hardware. At least I got $100 of it back, if only for a few minutes, as we purchased the iPod Touch moments after getting the credit at the Apple Store, Manhattan.

I also recently (yesterday) finally finished reader over 3,000 blog posts in my aggregator.

We finally picked up a new game console. Nope–it’s not the 360 Elite that I thought I’d own by now, but rather a Wii. While pushing the cart around Costco, Trisha saw one and I immediately saw the console’s potential. I actually didn’t think I’d own one. However, after getting one, I have also started working to lose the 15+ pounds gained on the cruise.

Vowed to never own another Western Digital device. Before leaving, I made sure there was enough space on the media center to record whatever we wanted while being gone for almost a month. Well, half of the terabyte setup we have seemed to no longer be readable by the computer. After checking the connections, the drive started up to a series of clicks. But still not visible by the media center. Boo. This has happened to me before, too–and I ended up losing tons of stuff. From now on, it’s Seagate or Hitachi.

Sony came out with a new DSLR. Awesome. With improved image stabilization and the optional vertical grip and backwards compatibility with the Minolta lenses. So now I am going to wait until it enters the south side of $1k.

Saw a screening of The Kingdom with the director, Peter Berg (that’s him in the bad flash-free iPhone picture above–loved you in Corky Romano). See that movie when it comes out. There’s a scene in there that’s going to make you want to jump out of your seat and join the FBI.

So, while there’s more items that currently escape me, that’s what happened while we were on the other side of the country.