On Tuesday, Verizon held a press conference where the Verizon iPhone was finally announced, after years of speculation. The new iPhone is nearly identical to its AT&T counterpart, save for a different antenna design and a missing SIM slot. What does this mean for AT&T customers such as myself? Better service, and hopefully cheaper monthly rates. AT&T’s going to have to start doing something to keep its customers from running to Verizon. Competition is always good for the customers though. It’ll drive both carriers to keep making improvements.

The year 2010 came and went, pretty fast if you ask me. It started out pretty boring and mundane as usual, but got interesting rather quickly. Within the first month of 2010, I was in a band, and had a girlfriend. A month later I had yet another band and another girlfriend named Madina, who I’ve stayed with since then. I’ve had three different jobs, left a band, joined another band, left that band, rejoined a band, played five shows, with three more to come, so I’d say I’m doing pretty well. Not so well in college, but I don’t really care all that much.

What bugs me is that it’ll take me another half a year to get used to writing 2011 instead of 2010.

As you all may or may not have heard, NYC got hit by a snowstorm pretty hard right after Christmas. The storm came quickly and dumped about 20 inches of snow, leaving the city stranded. Cars, buses, and above-ground subway trains were stuck in the snow, and many still remain stuck that way as of this writing. Trouble is, this is the end of the second day after the storm, I shouldn’t still be seeing streets completely unplowed at this point, especially not in NYC.
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Tumblr’s most recent outage lasted for over a day, and while that may not seem to be very long, a day on the internet is an eternity of bad PR. It highlights the main problem with a “cloud” system— it’s quite vulnerable and can screw everyone over if not managed properly.
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Seems I’ve lapsed in posting once again. Oh well. Here’s what’s up:

• I got a job, fixing watches in Macy’s. Much better than McDonald’s I think. It’s pretty easy and the Herald Square flagship store where I work is quite nice. Finally, I’ll be able to pay for my phone and metrocard, and I’ll even be able to have some savings. I also get 20% off most stuff and food within the Macy’s, so I’m digging it so far. It’s a pretty busy job, but that makes the hours melt away really fast.
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While working on TechBase, I spent a lot of time crafting a nice sleek nav for the site, all in CSS3. However after finishing it, I realized it looked sorely out of place with the more simplistic design I had started implementing, so I canned it. But I put so much work into it, it would be a shame to just throw it away, so I decided to give it to you guys.
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