Seth Dillingham: All PMC Software Auctions Are Live

Seth's sweet software auctions (all really incredibly good deals) are all live on eBay now! Unfortunately I already have licenses for all of the apps there that I want to use, and my discretionary budget went out the window with the table tennis table, so I won't be bidding, but if you'd like to get a bunch of great Mac and/or Windows software at a great price, check it out!

And of course, your winning bid will help fund cancer research, so it's a win-win!

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The #1 song on the US iTMS is Photograph by Nickelback. Unfortunately, I can't buy it because it's not available in the Canadian iTMS... which is ironic and stupid since Nickelback is a Canadian band!

I've emailed Apple about this in the past, not that I expected their catalog to appear on iTMS the next day, but just to voice my displeasure.

I just called Roadrunner Records, Nickelback's label, to ask why this is the case. They told me there is a different publisher in Canada for the iTMS than in the US, and the one in Canada doesn't have the rights to the songs yet, or something to that effect, but that they are working on it.

The probability of me downloading Nickelback's songs elsewhere increases with each passing day. It's legal for me to do that in Canada you know, as long as I don't then upload the songs to other computers. I greatly prefer to use the iTMS because it's more convenient, but eventually I'll consider myself more inconvenienced for not being able to listen to the songs I crave.

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Yesterday I went to see my family doctor. My right knee (which has a long and painful history to begin with) has been very sore for a couple months since Xavier jumped off the couch and landed on my right kneecap (I was sitting on the living room floor, legs straight).

My doctor checked it out and told me what's going on, basically the cartilage under the kneecap is .... um, can't remember what he said exactly, but basically it's in bad shape because of the impact, and it's going to take about 6 months before it feels better. Wonderful... so much for playing tennis and squash this winter like I usually do. (He said I'm not to play until my knee feels much better)

So I was thinking, what could I do instead? 9 years ago or so when I was recovering from my original knee injury, my dad bought me a great Kettler table tennis conversion top to put on our (junky) pool table. We played tons of table tennis, and it was great to have a fun activity that approximated the racquet sports I enjoy so much.

Why not do the same this winter? I happened to be driving past the racquet shop I've been doing business with forever, and saw they had a great table tennis table on sale outside.

I pulled over, we went inside, and after some thinking we decided to get it! It's a display model but in perfect condition, so it was on sale (nearly $200 off) + the $75 assembly fee. After taxes that's over $300 in savings!

So, Cheryl and I have our Xmas present a little early this year. :-) Now I have to make space in our basement to set it up.

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