Just when I didn’t think I needed a sign to show me I am wasting too much time in my life. Not more than 5 days after I post a review discussing GarageBand 2, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today at the Macworld Conference that GarageBand 3 has been released.

Damn it. It’s not as if I’m moving in slow motion, but sure feels like it. I guess in the blur that is my free time, I could only apply so many hours to learning GB 2… and it was not enough. Perhaps this is a sign of getting old, eh? That programs are updated before I can even learn the previous version.

I suppose this is some type of karmic revenge though. Five years ago, I had wanted to buy a 733mhz G4 Tower, but felt the price was too high. I waited until Apple made their “new products” announcement at the Macworld Conference. Sure enough, they launched a faster speed G4, and the Tower that had been the fastest on Monday became the slowest on Tuesday. However, the price dropped as well. Buying one the next day saved me $700. You could say I bought an obsolete computer, but it didn’t bother me in the least. Had I bought the same G4 Tower a couple weeks earlier, I doubt I would have felt the same.

Luckily, this time, all that was burned was my ego. I suppose this is all part of living in the computer generation. I’m certain the teens of today will take this type of fast-food style product development and accept it as commonplace. I should too. I don’t need too many signs to know it’s time I start picking up the pace with my projects again.