Sam Gustin is a writer for a website called DailyFinance. Seems like an amiable chap. Sam has decided to ingratiate himself to every Apple fan in the world by penning an opus titled “Apple Tablet: 10 Things We (Already Hate) About You.” Comments include “The first version of an Apple product is usually buggy.” OK, I’ll give him that. Hello, Leopard OS I bought October 27th, 2007?

Other remarks include “Something better is coming,” “You’re just going to break it, anyway,” (With that logic, why buy a Porsche?) and “Apple also built the world’s most infamous paperweight.”

My favorite, though, and totally contrary to doctrine: ”You do not need to buy a new gadget every time Steve Jobs tells you to.”

Moshe has been diverted from his SFO flight to investigate.

This really does exist, folks - greasy haired nerd not included

Before the thing of beauty, we had the kludge of fugly, the Axiotron is a MacBook combined with Wacom pen technology. Hey, at least it runs on OS X (not Snow Leopard).

In cities all over the world, today is developing as any other day.  Kids are going off to school, corporate execs are boarding commuter trains, the birds will chirp, babies will cry, lovers will love and dreamers will dream.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Dear Leader will unveil his Greatest Creation.  A mere five hours from now.

And a decade from now, you’ll ask a friend, “Do you remember where you were…that day?”

Where will you be in five hours?

Non Sequitur by Wiley at GoComics

Here is link to the lowdown.

Is it bullpaddies? I’m afraid not – you heard it here first. Or second. Trust me. It’s on the level. The thing is … they’re tsting units out in the field.(I miss the Verizon unit. ) What is demoed today may not even be what is eventually released (not March, not June, it’ll be  August). Remember, this is a dog and pony show to get the developers writing apps for this platform. Anyway, enjoy the show.

In a move highly reminiscent of the mp3 price negotiations with the major record labels, Apple is now dictating highly suggesting to the print publishers what price guidelines will be for selling e-books on iTunes. Everybody saw this coming and it was unavoidable. Publishers want high margins to maintain their cushy lifestyles. Apple just woke them up to the new reality.

IT'S CALLED STICKING IT TO THE MAN AND NOT THE CUSTOMER

You are the best this industry ever had, though few outside of Sun recognized it. I really mean that!

Scott McNeally, Sun Microsystems founder who left over four years ago and let My Little Pony ride his baby into the ground writes his own farewell address to his former troops before Oracle shakes off the chaff and excess and devours what’s left of the carcass. There’s a nice salute to Larry:

And my hat is off to one of the greatest capitalists I have ever met, Larry Ellison. He will do well with the assets that Sun brings to Oracle.

Translation: thank you Larry for the payday, I couldn’t unload my shares to anybody, now I can afford to keep my babealicious wife and put my four kids into the best colleges Oracle’s money can buy. You rock, Larry!

There’s this, too:

Oracle is getting a crown jewel of the technology industry.

Last time I looked, the crown jewel in the tech industry just had the best quarter ever and is about to unveil an ineffable miracle of incalculable proportions. Though I’m sure Larry wouldn’t mind having that company in his back pocket, if only to run as a mere hobby.

Harry McCracken provides a few screen shots and text here at PCWorld

In his Human Nature column on Slate.com, William Saletan ticks off why the love of technology is pre-occupying the world populace more than their love of Obama or any other world leader or government or country. Perhaps this is the dawning of phyles or cliques, the new tribes of affiliation driven by social media. Saletan makes an interesting observation that Hillary may finally upstage Obama, in the grand pageant of history:

If this week ends up being remembered for a political speech, it won’t be Obama’s. It’ll be the speech Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered Thursday. Clinton denounced Internet censorship around the world as an “information curtain” akin to the Iron Curtain of the Soviet era. She championed the “freedom to connect”—an updated, online version of freedom of assembly. And she outlined a place for politics in the march of information technology. “On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress,” she observed. “But the United States does. We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas.”

And so began the vestiges of the first war of the global internet.