Update.

Along with the rest of the world, I was in fact accepted into the Developer Program on Friday.

And in the meantime (I think I'm allowed to talk about this) I was hired to write a program.  I don't think I'll say what it is yet, but some of you who know me personally will be quite surprised to hear I accepted it.

Watch this space for details.

We interrupt this hiatus.

The iPhone App Store opened yesterday.

For those who don't know, back in the jailbreak days of, oh, less than a year ago, I wrote one of the most popular unauthorized third-party programs for the iPhone: the very first eBook reader.  It's still one of my proudest achievements.

Naturally, when the iPhone SDK beta was announced, I signed up on the first day.  But I was never accepted into the program.

So yesterday I saw the store open. And obviously, I'm. Not. In. It.

Surprisingly, it hurt.  A lot.