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Today marks the end of my year of free Gogo wireless. I tweeted about Gogo in December of 2010 and was the lucky winner! I used Gogo a total of 18 times this last year. I had more flights than that, of course, so that means that Gogo was available on about a quarter of the flights I took. It was a good year and I landed more caught up than I would have been otherwise. It was a no-brainer to use Gogo when it was free, even on short flights. I think the sweet spot for me is the longer-haul flights, and so Gogo hasn’t seen the last of me!

Thanks again Gogo, I enjoyed the run!

And happy birthday to all the Northern hemisphere racehorses, of course!

I hope, wherever you all are, you are happy!

…and any other greetings and well-wishes I may miss! I wish everyone the best and look forward to an exciting 2012!

If you recall, I won a year of free Gogo inflight WiFi last Christmas-time. I have enjoyed it all year and always make it a point to tweet or blog or both when I use it, since I figure their Marketing department should get something for their gift to me. Here is today’s exchange via twitter:

If you recall,

Thanks Gogo!

Here is a link to help you find it as it is not searchable through iTunes yet:

WhenIsThanksgiving

2011's date

It’s free, so go get it now!

Coming soon to the Apple App Store, the aptly-name WhenIsThanksgiving. WhenIsThanksgiving determines on what day Thanksgiving falls in the U.S. in a given year. It builds on the success of WhenIsEaster and my hope is that it will push the total number of application downloads from All About Me Software to over 100! Stay tuned and watch for it late this week in the App Store. It will be free, and worth at least twice that!

III Forks in Chicago is open and it is worth eating there! It is on the Lakeshore East Park, North of Millennium Park, on E. Benton Place. If the cab driver doesn’t know how to get there, tell him/her Randolph to Field. If you are walking, it is the level below the new Mariano’s supermarket.

The filet was one of the best I have had. My choices for “rare” were “red, cold center” or “red, warm center.” I chose the latter, and that is the way it came! Very impressive for being a table of seven since I expect the timing on that is fairly tight. The prices are like any Chicago steakhouse, but I did see a french dip sandwich and a burger that would be appropriate for any time, not a “big steak dinner.”

The staff were very attentive and the service was excellent. Check it out if you haven’t: http://iiiforks.com

WhenIsEaster in the AppStore here reached 20 downloads on 9/21/2011. The country breakdown is this:

USA 6
Australia 3
China 1
Egypt 1
Germany 1
India 1
Indonesia 1
Italy 1
Kuwait 1
South Africa 1
Turkey 1
UK 1
Greece 1

I figured it’d be downloaded in the U.S. but who could guess Australia would be second? It does support French and Spanish as of version 1.0.1 too. WhenIsEaster is free and worth every penny! Check it out.

WhenIsEaster is now live in the App Store. It tells you when Easter is. That’s it. It’s free and worth at least ten times that much! Get it here: WhenIsEaster A next version will handle Greek Orthodox Easter too.

So far, 17 people have downloaded it, five in the US, two in Australia, and one each in China, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kuwait, South Africa, Turkey, and the UK. Check it out…