Okay, so you know how the world of blogs is sometimes collectively referred to as “blogosphere?” How about referring to the current excitement surrounding soon-to-be-indicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich as the blagosphere?

Brilliant, just brilliant.

Though I’m usually the cook in the home, every once in a while my wife comes up with something creative for dinner. After a trip to the Japanese grocery store, she returned with some high-grade tuna, real wasabi, and tobiko. After making some sushi rice and wrapping everything together, we ended up with some nice spicy tuna rolls.

Delivery Status is a dashboard widget with a very simple purpose: to help you track packages. You can set up multiple widgets to track multiple packages. It covers just about every shipping service and you can even track orders from companies like Amazon and Apple. Nice, but it gets better.

With version 4.5, the genius(es?) at June Cloud added a sync service. Your package info can be synchronized with their server. Why? Naturally so all your packages can also be tracked on your iPhone or iPod Touch. No manual sync required. It just works. And its awesome.

Did I mention that this is all free?

Why? Who cares. Just get it.

What happens when the price of gas drops precipitously? You get this sort of view from the driver’s seat of my Prius:

I don’t know why people buy Hummers. I do know why I bought my Prius, however.

To feel morally superior to these people.