After hearing someone vomited, I checked out some of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 ads. While the cheap PC ads do have a point, these IE 8 ads make the Seinfeld ones look really good. Which is bad.

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After taking a break from FriendFeed and using Twitter only sporadically over the weekend - I feel better already.

For starters, I must admit: I was (and still am) addicted to social media. I’ll take the blame myself, although its constant presence on my iPhone (via Twitter clients and BuddyFeed) didn’t help matters. The urge to check out “what’s going on right now” was omnipresent, and often indulged.

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Perhaps it is a “day of FriendFeed bashing.” Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch wrote a post comparing FriendFeed to syphilis, criticizing it as prone to mob formation.

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It’s been a nice weekend enjoying the sunny weather - but I’ve had a bit more time to consider the implications of taking a break from FriendFeed, what it says about myself, and social media in general.

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Routesy is an iPhone app that provides MUNI and BART arrival times and maps of stop locations. I had downloaded the app, liked it, and had a review all ready to go - but it recently stopped working. It would crash on every launch, specifically when searching for the arrival data. I then checked iTunes for an update, and noticed the app had been removed.

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Almost entirely at random, I got caught up in a FriendFeed thread by Aaron Brazell where he voiced dissatisfaction with the service, which got rather surreal, and argumentative. But while Brazell hasn’t officially pulled the trigger and quit - I decided to save myself a few days of waffling, and actually did it.

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Yes, this is another post among many others stating my annoyance of AT&T’s iPhone 3GS upgrade policy. But please bear with me, because I’m going beyond just the dollars and cents of subsidized phones and contracts.

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Glancing back at my expectations for this year’s WWDC Keynote, things turned out better than expected, and there were a few surprises I didn’t see coming. Not even AT&T could totally spoil things.

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Only half an hour to go, but I’ll just toss this out there.

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Another post more for my own future reference, but perhaps someone else will benefit from it. Since redesigning the blog a few months ago, I finally got around to tackling the design of the comments area which is provided by Disqus. To see the custom styles in action, just look below this post.

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