The Wii preorders started today. I went back and forth regarding whether or not to go get one. Ultimately, I decided not to preorder because retailers are not guaranteeing that holders of a preorder receipt will get a Wii on launch day. As a user on Digg pointed out, this has the effect of tying you to that one retailer; what if they run out, but someone else has a stack of ten? You’ve already made a deposit and you’ll just have to wait until that one retailer gets more. No, I think I’ll take my chances. And if I don’t get one opening day, so be it.

An excellent article about stories that the mainstream media missed or underreported:

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:86394

I highly recommend it. I’m no fan of the mainstream media, particularly network television. I actually don’t even own a tv anymore and I watch all my media on my computer. I rarely read newspapers or news magazines. I tend to get my news from aggregators like news.google.com, which allows me to select the categories of news that I want, and avoid the “junk-food news” that has absolutely no bearing on my life.

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” -Thomas Jefferson

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” -Thomas Jefferson

Performancing rocks! Actually, I don’t know if that’s true. I just installed performancing and this is my first post using it, so if you can read this and nothing looks funky, then it rocks.

If you don’t know, performancing is an extension for Firefox (FFX4L!) that lets you post to your blog directly from your browser. This functionality is built into Flock, but I’m a long time Firefox user, so the ability to add this to my browser is sweet. I’m hoping that by lowering the barrier to blogging to almost nothing, I’ll start posting more frequently. Guess we’ll see…