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Saturday, December 24, 2005
I’m incredibly humbled to say that the company I was interviewing with in Colorado Springs has made me a very lucrative offer, and I am in the process of accepting. After I accept, I’ll begin the process of wrapping up my life in Florida, and preparing to move it out to Colorado.
I know it will […]
Monday, December 19, 2005
We’re off to Colorado to spend the holidays with my family at their home near Vail. Their neighbourhood, Cordillera, was made famous by Kobe Bryant’s little ’sexcapade’ with a transient local. Thankfully, the media have long gone, and we look forward to some much needed rest and relaxation away from the hell that is Florida.
I […]
Sunday, December 18, 2005
[From Time.com]
For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME’s Persons of the Year.
These are not the people you expect to come to the rescue.
Rock stars are designed […]
Saturday, December 17, 2005
In case you’ve put off your holiday shopping and neglected to find something that will satisfy the Mac enthusiast on your list, you’re in luck. For a limited time, the Apple Store is offering free overnight shipping on standard or popular custom configuration orders of any Macintosh computer, iMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power Mac or Mac […]
Friday, December 16, 2005
Move over Activity Monitor! When I installed the Developer Tools package that comes with Mac OS X Tiger on my Power Mac G5 Quad, I opted to install the performance monitoring tools (CHUD, etc.) Among these tools is a processor pane that appears in System Preferences.
The pane itself is cool, allowing you to switch off […]
Friday, December 16, 2005
It’s not often that I get excited about forthcoming feature films. I’m terribly picky, and I think many studios don’t exactly produce films that captivate audiences these days. When I saw that Warner Brothers was producing a remake of the 1972 action adventure flick The Poseidon Adventure, I got giddy.
I remember first seeing the original […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Boeing and Australian air carrier Qantas announced that the airline has chosen Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, and plans to buy up to 115 of the jets for renewal and expansion of its long-haul fleet.
The two companies are finalising an agreement that includes orders for 45 Dreamliners, with 20 options plus purchase rights for an additional 50 […]