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One year ago I made an entry bidding farewell to two-thousand and six. As I had hoped, I managed to drift through 2007. In fact, not much changed within me. Sure, I now work full time. But that’s little more than a replacement for school as something to do. I still, generally, live life vicariously. I fear it’s going to take somebody new to break me out of this shell. Here’s to you, whoever you are.

Looking back at that old blog entry, I made a few predictions for 2007. Amidst a product shortage, Nintendo has managed to sell near 500,000 more units of their Wii console than Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Of which I have contributed one purchase to each. Sony’s PlayStation 3 is still more than five million units behind both Nintendo and Microsoft. I’ll mark that as a prediction come true.

I also predicted that music would experience a revolution. It did not. In my opinion there were no notable releases in the past year. I am, however, looking forward to at least three 2008 releases: Disturbed, Slipknot, and Ra.

With Apple’s release of a new generation of iPods, the iPhone, and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), they are more in the spotlight than ever. Combine that with the flop that is Windows Vista driving customers away from Microsoft… I’ll give myself this one as well.
In fact, I’ve gone as far as to purchase a Macintosh for myself. To add more to that shock, after moving in early December I have yet to bring my Windows desktop to the new place.

The last real prediction I made was that there would be scientific breakthroughs in the medical field. While I’ve not followed this closely, I remember hearing of a way to create stem-cell-like cells without using embryos. I figure that’s fairly significant. I’ll mark that as true.

Three out of four isn’t bad. Now, I’m not going to make any predictions about 2008. Anything I could consider is so unstable it’s not worth the effort.

Good luck to all of you in 2008, I certainly hope it’s better than last year. At least for my sake.