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There’s been a lot of wondering I think, about whether or not the Nissan LEAF EV was going to offered in anything other than that blueish color they’ve been parading around. Well, today the LEAF reservation email came today and one of the steps they offered was to choose your reservation color. Since the question has been sitting on a lot of peoples’ minds (including my own) I answer with a triumphant “Yes!”.

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Today was the iPhone OS 4 announcement/meeting/thing – Basically a press conference for Apple to tell the world how awesome they are. This is not an uncommon thing and the reaction isn’t uncommon, but I am getting tired of it. It goes something like this:
Me: “Hey Cool, iPhone OS 4 has multi-tasking in it”
iPhone Detractor: “[Android|Palm|WinMo] has had multi-tasking forever, iPhone is lame, and you suck.”

Or possibly:

iPhone detractor: “Apple fanboys are so thick-headed. They always talk about how awesome the iPhone is, but [Android|Palm|WinMo] has been doing since version x.x and it has feature y…(ad nauseum)”

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I should start out by warning you that this is not a build-log. My friend Isaac reminded me that before we started this project, this was blogging gold, and he didn’t have a blog. He was implying that I should be the one to write this all down. I didn’t, but this should be interesting anyway.

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So last night I was looking for a song that I’ve heard a million times, but have never known the name of. It’s an instrumental, and I’m pretty confident that you’ve heard it too. I would describe it as a sort of peppy, upbeat, 50′s ad spot background theme. Lots of sticatto plucking of strings. After several unsuccessful attempts, my wife offered a trade. She would look for my song if I would go find the paintbrushes she was looking. Surprisingly, it worked! She found an album containing the song and I found the paintbrushes.

The song was written by a man named Laurie Johnson. He is a British composer and the song is called “Happy Go Lively”. It’s owned an licensed by a company called Associated Production Music. Production Music, is a term given to music that’s essentially made for the sole purpose of licensing it out for productions (movies, television, etc)

Considering how well-known and familar, but unidentifyable this song is, I thought I’d post it to a page and stick as much google-glue as I could on it. If you found this page through a search engine after having some difficulty, give me your search terms and I’ll put them in the keywords, so people like us don’t need to struggle to find this delightful little song.

Here’s a little clip:

Well, I tried, and everybody I know tried. None of us made it. It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think any of us are going to die. If you haven’t heard about SparkFun Electronics’ Free Day, it may be that you just don’t care. If you didn’t care, it seemed to me for a moment that you were the only one.

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Christmas is upon us, and we have gotten ourselves a Christmas tree. My wife and I are dedicated Tree-Killers Live-Christmas-Tree-Advocates. We just like the feeling of a live tree. We moved into a house this year and have been enjoying a vaulted-ceiling. While at the tree-farm, we decided to pick a taller-than-usual tree and ended up with this Behemoth. It didn’t seem this tall at the farm, but getting it in, we realized how big and beautiful of a tree it was.

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