Interesting… according to this article, not only is Vista not selling well, but there has been a huge jump in sales of Office for Mac, which he’s suggesting indicates that a large number of people are switching to the Mac. I’ve said it before: Windows Vista is the best thing that ever happened for Linux [...]
Archive of entries posted on September 2007
The iPhone — Does it Live Up to the Hype?
Over the weekend, and quite by accident, I saw my first iPhone. I expected to be underwhelmed. The iPhone, after all, has been so overhyped in the past several months that it would be nearly impossible for it to live up to it all, even though I’ve ignored the vast majority of it. And I [...]
“Flying robot to aid China Antarctic expedition”
Yes, folks, the Probe Droid from The Empire Strikes Back is now a reality.
“Physicists have ‘solved’ mystery of levitation”
Man, I love technology! Even if it’s decades before they can levitate anything bigger than a quarter, just the thought of things like this, or the “invisibility cloak” that the same people came up with the theory for a little while back, interests me to no end.
Technology Rocks!
I love computer hardware. Especially the pace of improvement in it. I’m referring specifically to notebook hard drives. About a year ago, when I bought this laptop, the most capacious internal notebook hard drive available was a 120GB 5400RPM drive. I opted for the smaller but faster 100GB 7200RPM model. But last night, I was [...]
Comparison Shopping
Proof that it pays to comparison shop: I was in the Staples store here and saw a 4GB flash drive for $109. Then I walked next door to the Best Buy store, and saw the same 4GB flash drive, from the same manufacturer… for $49. And the most disgusting part of it is, even Best [...]
The True Power of Lisp
In my previous post, I discussed a very minor thing that I thought should be simple to do with a Lisp macro, but that I’d been working on for the better part of a week without success. As I’ve said before, once I run into a problem, I can’t leave it alone — I pound [...]
Lisp Macro Confusion
From everything I’ve read, Lisp’s macros are most useful for abstracting commonly-used patterns. Well, I quickly noticed a pattern that seemed ripe for abstraction, but after trying to do so for the better part of a week, I haven’t met with any notable success.
From the Department of Redundancy Department…
“Men want hot women, study confirms“. Well, duh! Despite the title of the article, the aforementioned study did have some interesting insights. It’s worth a read for anyone interested in decoding human behavior.
“How To Seduce A Geeky Girl”
Very amusing, and quite possibly accurate.