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Wow, you all must be so sick of hearing from me. I was really trying to wait another week, until the one year anniversary of my last post before writing this, but I just could not resist.

And thus(ly) I begin a chronological blog-journey of what’s happened in my ongoing quest for awesomeness:

• Epic entrance into the world that is iPhone with the release of People 1.0, a white pages application. One of the first 500 applications available on day one of the app store
• People won the Best iPhone App in the the WhitePages.com API contest, and I got a sweet MacBook Pro out of it.
• Did pretty much nothing for the rest of the summer. Just hung out with friends and feared my most certain impeding doom to come in mid August
• Started my freshman year at MIT. Confirmed my suspicions that I can never be a mechanical engineer, in a single week, before classes even started.
• Started classes. Woot exciting GIRs: 18.02, 8.01, 3.091, and 21M.011
• Learned what GIRs are (classes all MIT students are required to take) and what those strange numbers mean (Multivar Calc, Physics (Mechanics), Solid State Chem, and Into to Western Music, respectively)
• Unibody MacBook Pros, grrrr…….
• Discovered that MIT is not impossible and that people in this horrid society stress way too much
• Ahhh problem sets! What ever shall I do‽‽‽ (those are interrobangs for those less cultured than I).
• Learned to love the amazing efficiency achieved by referring to everything with numbers. I need only say, “I’m off to 18.02 in 10-250″, and everyone will know exactly what I mean and will wish me luck in getting a seat close to the front of the giant lecture hall such that I might get a good view of Prof. Auroux’s dreamy eyes.
• Finals… </pass no record>
• Came back for IAP and competed in the 6.270 competition (autonomous lego robots). I had tons of fun and pulled my first work all nighter. We got like 5th place or something. Check out our super cute robot: http://web.mit.edu/adaml/www/6.270/
• Second semester: 18.03 (diff eq), 8.02 (e&m), 6.01 (awesome but extremely vague “Intro to Computer Science and Electrical Engineering”), STS.003 (rise oF MOdern SCIENCE!!). Hard, but pretty awesome
• Declared Course 6-1. I’m a CS major. hurrays!
• Approaching finals….. disliking all those people who stress out too much, getting stressed out and thusly hating myself.
• Summer!!! (for 2 weeks). Relaxed, hung out, and started and finished People 2.0.
• My life officially begins; I start twittering. Please follow me. It will make me feel super cool and important. http://www.twitter.com/adamleonard.

Then, I started my internship at Apple. It’s been incredibly awesome and fun. Sorry, I can’t say anything about it, but I’m working on some really cool stuff. It super sucksies that I have to wait like 3 more years before I can start working at Apple (or somewhere as awesome as Apple) full time.

But yes, what inspired me to write today was to announce that finally(!) People 2.0 is available on the app store. It’s got some cool new stuff and is compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, so try it out!

I apologize for ignoring my other apps (PhotoBook and Google Importer). I really do still love them dearly, but understand that I work on these apps in my spare time, for free, just for fun, when I have a cool idea or something. Since said time is quite valuable, I find myself not working on them for months, or even decades (well, not decades).

And to all youz developerz out therez. Photobook is open source, so if you want to add a feature or fix a bug, please do so!

A super special, completely rewritten and ambitious, vaporware edition of Google Importer is also fairly far along, but I really have no idea when I will conjure up enough interest and time to finish it… I greatly apologize to those who have been persistently asking for it. Again, if there are any developers out there who want to work on it, just shoot me an email.

And finally, I will leave you with a detailed outline of my ambitious goals for the rest of my life:

• Purchase 17″ Unibody MacBook Pro with employee discount