I've been shedding computers for the last two months. When I left for this internship, I gave back the PowerBook G4 that I had taken from Residential Computing and which I had hardly ever used except for playing multiplayer Tetris. Then, I got my 12" PowerBook back from my dad whom I returned his MacBook Pro. And now, that 12" PowerBook is also gone. Sold, in fact. So, finally, I'm down to one computer. After years of synchronizing data and music libraries, etc., it's kind-of a relief to be back to a single-computer setup. No more worrying about where what is and all that.

Meanwhile, tech news is bugging me a lot these days. All the previously-Mac blogs have now become iPhone blogs. I am completely fed up of it. It's ridiculous that more than half of the stories on tuaw.com, macuser.com, etc. are now about the iPhone. They need to spin-off their own iPhone counterparts because it's driving me up a wall.

Also, having acquired the audiobook for The Deathly Hallows, I am now a good way into my second run-through of the book and am now noticing all the finer points that I had missed in my first read. There are points in the book where I get lost in the words and can't tell who's saying a particular line and that's really confusing, not to mention annoying. And I remember at least one line in the book that was so obfuscated that I had to read it five times before I could figure out what exactly it was trying to say. However, listening to the extremely well-performed Jim Dale version of the audiobook is a real treat. His voice acting is superb and there's never any confusion about who's saying what because he has distinctive voices for each of the characters. Only once I'm done listening to it will I write up a definitive (well, I'll try) analysis of the book. Anything less won't do it justice.

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