Videoblogs? Not Anymore - Thanks, iMovie '08

So I was all set to start a new Inconvenient Truth series of video podcasts. Been telling everyone I know how awesome it would be. Imagine my surprise when I go to edit the first episode in the new iMovie and I am presented with what appears to be Windows Movie Maker's pretty but dumb third cousin.

Although I sit on the board at Apple, they don't often listen to me about anything (see: lack of solar-powered iPhone). If they had showed iMovie '08 to me prior to its release I would have had some friends from the DEA raid Infinite Loop looking for psychotropic drugs. Multiple clicks in areas that used to require a single click? Dialog boxes? I can't import my '06 projects? WTF? Did we hire J. Allard as a "coolness" consultant or something? How is this an Apple product?

Oh well, at least my stock will go up. You guys would have like the podcast though. Now you'll never be able to experience its greatness. You wouldn't have believed the surprise guest I had who said they would only "come out" as a greenie if they could do it on my show. Such is the iLife I suppose.

iGrudge

So I said I was sorry for spilling the beans and revealing that I had an iPhone ahead of release day and Steve still won't lay off me.

You are so not invited to Live Earth 2 now. And I was totally going to make the backdrop of the stage out of the LED iMacs you have coming out next month. Oops! Did I spill another secret?

Et tu, Steve?

So I guess I wasn't supposed to let it be known that I had gotten my iPhone quite that early. Either that or Steve really, really hates my solar iPhone idea.

I guess what's acceptable for some old guy from the Wall Street Journal isn't so good for the former VP. I'm not saying I hold grudges, but you might want to hope that options scandal resolves itself before 2008 rolls around.

Enough of this, I've got a party to plan.

Yes, I have an iPhone

It.s aewseom. I am posting this entrée with it. Thee predictive text works grate. (Just kidding. It really does work fabulously.)

Congrats to Apple, Inc. on a great product. Although I guess they forgot to include that solar cell power source I kept telling them about. Maybe next time.