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Lots of things today:

After downloading and installing all the software required (ok, just iTunes and Quicktime 6.2), I've had the chance to poke around Apple's new iTunes music store. Not a bad start, but there's certainly room to grow (try searching for some of your more obscure artists for starters). There's a series of articles at Fortune this week that covers all the details quite well.

Courtesy of the Los Lobos mailing list, a link to a recent interview with Steve Berlin about the band and setlists.

Mathematics and the Simpsons.

Saw that Chebacca is going to be in the next Star Wars movie. I really don't care, but was a little surprised that this showed up as news on Yahoo's! In The News box. What gives?

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We had dinner last night at Frontera Grill (wedding anniversary, actually). Frontera's one of my all-time favorite restaurants and serve some of the best Mexican food I've ever had. We had an appitizer of goat sopes that was quite good, as were the Topolo margaritas.

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According to TheOneRing.net, the theatrical version DVD comes out on August 26. The extended edition comes out November 18th. Mark your calendars.

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Took a little trip out to Iowa over the weekend. The tenderloin at Joensy's is still huge, bigger than the plate.

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Sorry, been busy elsewhere and didn't realize I had been away from he as long as I was.

Spent the last couple of days wrestling with DSL, Airport, and a router that doesn't want to play nice with the base station. Still need to research that one to figure it out.

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