1. The ESPN.com widget on my Google homepage has displayed the same "Favre signs with Vikings" headline ever since Favre signed - over a month ago.  I see this as further evidence that ESPN is lame and does not get it.
    
2. Windows 7 might actually be worth paying for.  Not worth the price Microsoft is asking, mind you, but worth buying.
    
3. We got a new german shepherd dog two months ago, and I should so be writing about her.  As I type this, she's in her crate, laying on her back, sleeping.  Don't get all PETA on me about the crate - it's god's gift to puppy owners who don't like their shit wrecked.  Besides, she likes it and goes in it on her own.
    
4. I just upgraded the software I use to maintain this site.  It has tagging support, so you can see at a glance what I used to write about back when I actually paid attention to this site.
    
5. I finally saw Little Shop of Horrors.  A musical featuring a bunch of upcoming actors who can kinda sing and a plant that eats people.  Yeah, it's just as weird as it sounds.

I took an even bigger gulp of the Apple Kool-Aid last week and bought an iPhone 3GS. Even after all the hype and hoopla - not to mention my high expectations - I haven't been disappointed. In fact, if the first week and a half is any indication, it's a life-changing move.  

First, I think my Better Half wants to grab it from my hands and beat me with it, for all the time I spend with my nose buried in the display.  We'll be driving down the street and I've got Google Maps open, following our course with the GPS.  If we're watching TV, I'm on the internet, looking up the the name of some actor.  If she feels like a Sushi Night, I'm on Urbanspoon, looking up the menu of a local sushi place.   Or we'll lay in bed while she reads and I check how much the mattress is sinking in the middle.

Next, I'm checking Facebook constantly.  Not just checking it, mind you, but updating my status, posting pics, commenting on friend's statuses.  I practically live-blogged my last day at Summerfest this year, beating Facebook like it was Twitter.  I may actually need to get a Twitter account, just to satiate my update appetite.  Granted, I can't seem to update this site more than once a month, but it's a lot easier to pull 140 characters out of your ass than 1447 characters.

Finally, because it allows me to access those things - primarily internet things - at any time, and any place, I actually spend less time on the computer.  That's probably a good thing, because I've been nursing a low-grade internet addiction for a few years now. Granted, that won't change, but at least I can feed the beast from outside now. I may even get some color this year.

If I do, it'll likely happen because I'm riding my bike more. Speaking of which, I got this great GPS app for monitoring my rides...

Mismanaged Pro Football Team meets The Elusive Google Crawl in the Dark Alley of Wikipedia Hooliganism.

After 18 months, I've given the site another facelift.  Not necessarily for the better, mind you - this is just another bad dot com, after all.  I've embraced the bad, superficial elements of Web 2.0 (gradients and liquid-look), but do not fear - JAB is still firmly rooted in Web 0.1, and will stay there until you pry my text editor from my cold, dead fingers.

Okay, perhaps I'm getting a little melodramatic.  In addition to the visual changes, it's also running on new software.  I've written a new content management system to manage this icky blog-writing business, and am considering releasing it into the wild as an open source project.  Maybe.  I don't know - ask me in the morning, after these half-dozen or so Leinies have worn off.

I got nothin' else, so check out this picture of the DeLorean.