Here are the most listened to songs in iTunes. For those that are wondering why the highest numbers are so low, remember that I haven't been using iTunes 4 for very long.
I have to say, I was fairly surprised by the results. Some of these songs I didn't realize I had listened to as much as I have (Without Me and Breaking The Habit come to mind).
I also absolutely love how "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is immediately followed by "All I Want Is You." :)
That is all.
Edit: So does his brother, David.
For just $678, I can get a 1.42GHz Mac mini with an internal AirPort card (memory upgraded after). That's only about a month's worth of bills... *sigh*
It doesn't help that it is over 3 times as powerful as my current machine. Grr.
Wow, a slew of new things from Apple today. Where to begin...
Mac Mini. Wow. A super-small Mac at a super-low price; $499 for the low end, $599 for the high end. The 1.42GHz model is 3 times more powerful than my current G4, and considering the fact that I don't need much of the upgradability that a tower offers, the Mini is a very attractive option for a new computer for me.
iLife '05. Apple has upgraded their consumer-friendly software suite across the board, with full-version upgrades of iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, and GarageBand. iTunes got an upgrade too, to work with the...
iPod shuffle. No, it's not a dance step, it's the latest member of the iPod family (which also includes the iPod, iPod U2 Special Edition, iPod Mini, and iPod Photo). This tiny-tiny (less than 1 inch wide, and just barely over 3 inches long!) is the cheapest iPod ever made, at a cost of $99 for the 512 meg model. You use iTunes (of course) to load it up with music, and then you can switch it from ordered playing (to play your playlist as you deemed) to random playing; while that isn't especially astounding, it is a cheap and easy way of adding some additional functionality to a very low-cost item.
iWork. This odd, almost Microsoft Office-competing suite contains two programs: the formerly stand-alone Keynote program, made to compete against Microsoft's PowerPoint, and the poorly-named Pages, which is a new program meant to compete (I guess) against Microsoft Word. Keynote 2 got a significant upgrade, boasting several new and improved features, but since I'm not that familiar with Keynote 1, I couldn't tell you what those are.
Okay, so I wake up on the 31st and my clock is flashing. Glancing over at the G4, I see that it's power buttons aren't throbbing. Great, a random-as-hell power outage. Well, there are worse things that could have happened, I say to myself, especially since I had two different parties to go to for New Years. Hell yeah!
If you're ever in the position where you have two New Years parties to go to, stick with one or the other. The first party I went to had a lot of people that I didn't know, but it was still a fun enough affair. The host, Chaz, has a karaoke machine (and had played host to several cast parties before) and is about the friendliest guy you'll ever meet. Eventually, the number of people started to dwindle and a few more people I actually knew showed up, and I was having a good time (in no small part to a really hot friend of Chaz's... too bad she was there with her 13 year old son). Eventually, I got a call from my friend Multi-Bob, so against my better judgement, I headed off to the second party.
*sigh* When I left, the first party was winding down; there were just a handful of us left. Actually, it was just me, the hosts (Chaz and his wife), another couple (in-laws of Chaz), the hot woman, and her son. A small group, but still an enjoyable one, especially since it was just me and the three women. The other party, on the other hand, had hit it's peak long before I had gotten there (around 2am), and there was some sort of stupid drama that had happened before I got there that had dampened the spirits of those still remaining. While I had fun hanging out with the three hosts and Bob, dammit, I would have had a lot more fun ogling the chick at the first party (the term "MILF" comes to mind, as it was oh-so accurate).
Oh well. So I get home around 5am on the 1st, go to bed, and then wake up around 3pm. I clean up some around the apartment, then I head out to Hastings (a local place for music, books, games, movies, etc; it's a fun place to just browse). As I'm driving back to my apartment, I see several flashing cop cars sitting at an intersection. I see them about the time that I'm realizing that there are usually street lights where I am... crap. Turns out that some drunk driver hit a power line. Dunno if he survived; I've been asked this question each time I've related the story, and it never even occurred to me to find out, since I don't care one way or the other.
So I turn around and try an alternate way of getting back to my apartment. 8 minutes later (from where I was, it's usually about 2 minutes), I'm coming up on my street from the opposite direction, realizing with a sense of dread that I don't see the bank's sign, or the Shell station's sign. No no no... yup, there's my building, with absolutely no lights on at all. The icing on the cake here, though, is the fact that my building is on a different grid than the rest of the apartment complex. So I pull in and park, with every other building lit up like normal, while I head towards the black void that is my home.
*sigh* There wasn't much to do other than to head to IHOP for dinner, so I hopped back in my car after grabbing a book to read. Two hours later, I head back towards my apartment. The intersections affected are still blocked off, but I have power. Hot damn!
Hopefully the rest of the year won't be like that. :)