Hillary Clinton had several opportunities throughout this campaign to make her headline.  Unfortunately for her, it was the headline that as a Clinton, she could not allow herself to make.  She couldn’t concede, and still cannot.

Listen to her speech tonight.  Pay very close attention to every word she uses, because the Clintons pay attention to them.  Will she use the word “concede”?  Will she admit that she’s given up?  Or will she remain stubborn?

As it has been throughout the campaign, I really hope that she will make the headline.  If anyone has read my articles before, you will know that I started this campaign as a Hillary Clinton supporter.  The only headlines she has made, though, have been negative ones about Barack Obama.  I started this campaign as a supporter of both candidates.  I end it having a clear favorite.  It makes me sad, really.

If Hillary doesn’t make the headline soon, she will run out of time.  The headline will make her.

The Associated Press has now reported that Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for President.  This report is based on their own tally of delegates and superdelegates, a minimum estimated number of delegates that Barack will earn in tonight’s primaries, and the private endorsement of a handful of superdelegates.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is giving mixed signals about whether she will concede the nomination tonight.  Obama’s campaign is giving mixed signals about whether he will declare victory tonight.  Today is shaping up to be one hell of a day.

Last night, I was playing an intense game of iCopter on the iPhone and I got a warning that I had 10% of my battery life left. I thought, ok, when the phone dies, I’ll plug it into my computer and let it charge overnight. As I got a score of 700ish from iCopter, the phone died. This always seems to happen when I am doing well in that game!

I let it charge overnight and when I look at the battery percentage, it only had a sliver left and it was red. I thought that was strange but chalked it up to my computer just not charging it last night. I mean, if the computer if frozen, that would happen. Since I do not have a lot of time to futz around with this stuff, I figured I would leave it until I get into work.

During my 2.5 hour commute into NYC, the phone never turned off. Generally, I only have about 15 minutes in the red line before the thing dies. I use the iPhone nonstop and eat the battery on the thing. So after I get into work, I plug it in again. I let it sit for an hour and the thing is still sitting on the red line.

CRAP!

I then went on the internet to find out what my options are. I found a few interesting points.
1. The iPhone is covered under 1 year of warentee. The battery life averages 10 months. My battery is only 3 months old so I thought this was very odd.
2. It costs 70 dollars to buy apple care support. This support is for an extra year of replacement parts. They claim it is for 2 years, BUT the first year is free! I can also buy this at any point during my first year of owning the phone so why would I do it now? I mean, it would be nice to have if I break the screen, but to replace the battery? Apple claims that the battery costs 80 dollars to replace.
3. I cannot speak for the screen, but this website has a rather sweet battery replacement plan:

http://www.ipodjuice.com/iphone-battery-replacement-products.htm

They will replace the battery for you for 20 dollars. How can you beat that? Now the only reason why I would want to get the applecare plan would be if the screen cracks. I think I will take my changes don’t you?

As I was looking for the number to call apple, (since I am under warentee and all) I figured I would try something first. All windows computers seem to work better after a reboot so I figured I would reboot the iPhone and see what happens. I mean, it can’t hurt right? So I hold down the top and middle buttons and the phone turns off and back on and low and behold, I have full battery life again! Seems I will be holding off on that call to Apple…