iPads pre-orders for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and UK start on May 10 for delivery May 28.

Great piece on the shiny shiny alure of the iPad to ordinary non-geek consumers “What iPads Did To My Family” http://ow.ly/1I7OO

Wall Street’s meltdown yesterday smells like a fat-fingered trader’s slip amplified by a hedge fund’s high-speed automated trading ‘bot.

@anders94 congrats to Anders on having his uber-cool iPhone apps mentioned by the NYTimes.

My post on the FCC tackling net neutrality: Doing nothing and hoping for the best is not a viable option. http://bit.ly/bxryb1 #yg

@arj iPad also supports VPNs natively. I just configured several of the YG iPads for our VPN. It is much easier than the Cisco SW.

Great moment in today’s comics (Grits?): the Wizard of Oz is really about two women fighting to the death over a pair of shoes.

Enjoyed my first “Take your 3G iPad to work Day”. Challenge now is connecting to our 802.1X WiFi. I have the cert, but unclear how to load.

Apple sold its millionth iPad on Friday. If they keep up that rate, they’ll sell 9 million in 2010. http://ow.ly/1Gd5B #yg

Simple misunderstanding: After all the press about no water in Boston, I left my umbrella at home. Forgot about rain. Train late too.