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.