It has not been a great week personally. Dad had been in the hospital for a week and a half for unspecified reasons that wound up remaining unspecified (meaning they couldn't find anything wrong, so neither he, the doctors or I could get any piece of mind that comes with solving a mystery). Imagine an episode of House, M.D. that never reaches a resolution. With that said, here's some things...

• This is a tiny blog. Single-digit page views are the norm. Except today where I had something like 100 visitors. It looks like now that I've been mentioned by prominent enough bloggers, I now get 4th-degree of separation traffic whenever MG Siegler says something really stupid, as he did yesterday. It's probably too late to pile on, but I'm probably going to anyway.
• With that, I actually now feel guilty for not posting more frequently for the anonymous strangers who may get the impression this blog gets updated regularly. (It's really not.)
• Apple has done something to partly invalidate a post I was working on, and I'm happy. They (Samsung, actually) has been reported to use a Texan factory to manufacture the processors for the iOS devices. For anybody who is concerned about worker exploitation, outsourcing, and the general bad corporate citizenship of tech companies like Apple, this is a good start. But this should be just a start. The post may still come, though.
• I was not reading tech news all that much these two weeks, but I did see the dumb poll MacSurfer ran asking if Steve Jobs was snubbed as Time "Man of the Year". Entertaining such a thought would be ripe for mocking via the Twitter meme #FirstWorldProblems.