Shaun Lysen

"Using the iPhone is like living in Mussolini's Italy. Trains run on time, but there is some bad stuff going on." -- Leo Laporte

As I'm walking to school yesterday listening to the fantastic podcast This Week in Tech, I hear that phrase in the middle of a big group of people and start laughing loudly.  Yes, I'm that weirdo. 

All of this culminated with last week Apple's rejection of the Google Voice app prompting an FTC investigation.  Google's CEO up until yesterday sat on the Apple Board of Directors.

I'm no fan of Apple. In fact, I downright loathe them for reasons too numerous to list (future blog post?).  It can basically be summed up in two words of advice for Apple: OPEN STANDARDS!

But something I find really funny ... yesterday I posted Leo's quote on Twitter and when I'm checking out my Flickr stats last night, my most viewed photo, having more views yesterday than it previously had in the year it's been posted is my photo of Steve Jobs speaking at my commencement at Stanford in June of 2005

Now this may all be coincidence.  Perhaps Steve Jobs became a popular search topic because of the news yesterday (though he's been in the news enough recently), but couple that with the fact I'll be joining Google in a month and it seems slightly strange. 

And by you clicking on this pic you can inflate the stats even more!