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It was another good month in the exercising department as I clocked 248 km worth of cardio in May and acquired a set of dumbbells and some weights so I can do some upper body workouts at home. But what I'm most happy about is that I passed the halfway mark of my goal to bike 2,000 km in 2012 - currently 1,018 km. That should increase tremendously in June as I start cycling to work.

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Dear Facebook: I know it's been a rough couple of weeks, what with the IPO not turning out like you wanted. But you're acting like an insecure child who, having been chastised by your parents, redoubles your efforts to impress and try harder. And you're not impressing us, you're just annoying us. A Camera app ? Really? Like the one thing missing from the average iPhone user's experience was camera app #1,894,882? The App Store is littered with camera apps. Yes, yes, we know you just bought Instagram for All The Money In The World and you feel you need to play with your new toy, and that's fine. And, yes, the Facebook Camera app does let you upload multiple photos at once ... unlike your existing iOS app. Ah, yes, the Facebook app. See, Facebook, here's my real problem with the Camera App: why isn't that extra functionality built into your main app? I'm tempted to answer that rhetorical question by saying, "Because your main app is so bu...

Chalk this one up to a serious case of First World Problems, but I have a fun little dilemma now about the best way to (legally) acquire movies after they leave the theatre. Take a movie like Hunger Games or Avengers - both films I enjoyed very much and both I want to purchase after they come out. But what format do I really want to buy? Oh, the choices: 1) DVD:  Still the most versatile format for my circumstances. Can play on my BluRay player. Can play on the still functioning DVD player on the old TV. Can be ripped to play on family's iPhones/iPads/iPod Touch. So, can be watched almost anywhere but anyone in the family. Least expensive option. But not HD picture quality. 2) BluRay: Fully HD picture. But least compatible with everything else. Won't play in the DVD player. We don't own a BluRay ripping drive or software, so can't be played on iPhones/iPads. Buying a movie on BluRay means it's a sit down in front of the HDTV experience only. 3) Apple iTun...

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It's the exciting finale to Survivor: One World, which, considering the final five are all women, maybe "Survivor: One Gender" works better. Either way, the men messed this one up big time. The first immunity challenge of the night was one of those meta-challenges: knots, tight-rope style maze, rope net, puzzle pieces, clues, combination locks, brain surgery.... Kim won immunity, narrowly edging out Alicia and Chelsea. Kim was trying to decide whether to get rid of Chelsea or Alicia. The best part of this was watching both of them tell the camera that it couldn't possibly be them being voted off. Kim chose Alicia for elimination. From the jury, Kat muttered bad things. My wife declared that Chelsea is going to win the entire thing now. We got the usual 20-minute retrospective for the voted-off Survivors. Yawn. I mean, seriously. I almost nodded off there. The final immunity challenge involved balancing bowls on a teetering structure with an extension arm. Kim won the ...

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