I am Ashley Elsdon

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Day: June 17, 2011

So why doens’t Apple make dashboard stuff available in the Mac app store?

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I was just thinking about widgets for dashboard and started to wonder why Apple doesn’t have a store for that. I mean, they’ve got a store for just about everything else haven’t they? So why not widgets?

I’m sure that if developers could sell them then they could make even better widgets to justify the cost to the consumer.

I use a few widgets quite a lot, but have always found that there are never enough for the things I want to do, and I’d like to see a bigger and more diverse variety of the things available.

Maybe Apple will do that with Lion or some other big cat.

Rome

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I’ve been watching the Rome series again on DVD. It was such an incredible piece of television. So many good performances.

What always amazed me about it was that even though it was sort of about the history and events of a period of Rome’s history it was essentially about two friends and their relationship. In many ways that’s what made it compelling viewing.

When it was first on TV I watched it avidly and find that it has the same effect now. I think it is one of the few shows that I’d actually like to own.