Monthly Archives: January 2008

I need to subscribe to more normal news feeds

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At first, I thought Derek was kidding around:

did you read about the fundamental changes that have been discovered to the taxonomy of life?

Doesn’t that sound like a joke waiting to happen? I really thought there was a punchline coming. Turns out… yeah.

The Tree of Life Has Lost a Branch

Missing stories like this in my feeds makes me wonder if I’m living a sheltered life on the Internets.

This is ONLY a test

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Just seeing if some things are still working.

Testing for MarkDown

Yeap. Looks like everything checks out.

The move to another dreamhost account is complete. I guess that’s one thing crossed off on the list of things to do.

Next: Streamline the blogging process.

The Switch

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Starting in a couple of minutes, some things might not work as planned.

Basically, for the next 24 hours. I guarantee nothing.

Which might be a good thing for a change.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl related happiness

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Wal-Mart gives away $10 Gift Card for the little mishap that happened earlier this week. (Read: Wal-Mart: Super Smash Bros. Brawl deal was a lie…)

Dear Han Kim,

We apologize for our recent video game pricing error and the incorrect information included in our follow up e-mail correspondence with you.

As we are always striving to provide a positive customer experience, we will be sending you a $10 electronic Gift Card toward a future purchase as an apology for your recent experience. (One Gift Card per affected customer; this card can only be used online at Walmart.com. Look for details in a separate email.)

As a reminder, your payment method was never charged for the canceled items. Any related authorization hold on your credit or debit card account will be released in accordance with your financial institution’s holds policy. Please contact your financial institution for more information.

If you have any questions, please email us at help@walmart.com.

Sincerely,

Customer Service at Walmart.com

www.walmart.com

Amazing. I would have used it towards actually getting Brawl with Wal-Mart, but today, a sweet deal came by from Circuit City that I had to jump on. (Link from WiiFanBoy)

March 9th? Ugh. So far, far away…

So after this little mishap, my gift card total is…

  • $25 Toys R Us
  • $10 Wal-Mart
  • $10 Circuit City

I wonder if I should use one of those gift card exchanging services out there.

Week in Review + Today's Yahoo & OpenID News

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This week… keeps on surprising me. So, in review:

  • Monday: Zuckerborg’s boring and awkward “60 Minutes” reactions
  • Tuesday: Macworld: MacBook Air and et cetera
  • Wednesday: MySQL for $1 Billion by Sun, BEA for $8.5 billion by Oracle

And today:

The Obligatory OpenID logo

I guess I should start an OpenID related post with an OpenID logo… like every single other freaking tech blog…

I guess Yahoo! is in. OpenID has been one of those lovely ideas that’s been taking quite a while to take off. Maybe one year from now, this poll from Mashable will change dramatically:

Mashable's Poll on the Usage of OpenID

I selected Never. I’m willing to be a lot of the web applications I use already implement OpenID, and yet I never ever seem to actually need it. I wonder what the killer application is going to be for OpenID, because the way things are now doesn’t really bother the 95% of the Internet users just yet.

So many of these great ideas… sometimes never seem to take off. We’ll see if the Semantic Web will be as awesome it is going to be, with applications like shift-space.

http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/

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More silliness. I did not know such a site existed. The longest that you can have a .com is 63 characters, not counting the characters you could use for subdomains or the domain suffixes, like .com or .co.kr. So, obviously, the nerdiest thing to do…

http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/

The picture of Dr. Evil is a nice touch.

Apple Tax Day: Macworld: ONE MORE THING

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  • MacBook Air. Gorgeous. I’m going to sit here and figure out how to justify this purchase.
  • “The World’s Thinnest Notebook”? The Sony Vaio had it pretty close the last time I checked. But then again, the last time I checked was when I had a Vaio. The Vaio TZ: “3 lbs, .8-1.2 inches, 11 or 12″ display, miniature keyboard, and slower processor.”
  • “MacBook Air is 0.16″ to 0.76″. The thickest part of the MacBook Air is thinner than the thinnest part of the Sony. It fits inside a envelope.” How is this even possible?
  • 13.3″ display. LED backlit. iSight.
  • The kicker is the multi-touch display. The programmability of this feature alone warrants a purchase, right? Darn you, desktop applications and your ability to actually do more useful things that web applications.
  • Now, please give me the stats…
  • 1.8″ Hard Drive, as expected. 80 GB… kinda sounds like my old PowerBook. SSD as an option.
  • 1.6 Ghz, 1.8 option. Core 2 Duo. Pretty darn fast.
  • Come on $2K price point. Come on…
  • Not liking the fat border around the screen. But then again, some of the volume of the computer has to go somewhere…
  • 60% size shrinkage of processor. INSANE.
  • Black keys? Whoa.
  • PRICE. GIVE ME THE PRICE.
  • 45 Watts. Hooray for low power consumption.
  • Looks like there’s going to be 4 output holes. Power. USB. Micro-DVI. Audio Out.
  • 802.11n. Hmm.
  • PRICE PRICE PRICE.
  • “Also, software comes with the MacBook Air that allows you to “borrow” a Mac or PCs optical drive.” WOW. That’s. Pretty sweet programming.
  • 5 Hours Battery lfe. That is definitely amazing. No other thin laptops give you more than like 3 hours the last time I checked.
  • 2 GB. Standard. Delicious.
  • $1799.

Uh. Oh…