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For most, the WWDC keynote was a disappointment. Few new details were unveiled about Leopard and there were no hardware announcements. I can understand that. I can even understand that someone would start selling a t-shirt that says Worst Keynote ever. What I do not agree with is that some are starting to belittle Leopard […]
Just a quick note. I think that Apple was very clever to launch Safari on Windows. Although I do not expect to see people moving to a new browser in droves, I can see millions of Apple users who have to deal with Windows at work or at school switch to their favorite browser. This […]
I am just back in my hotel room, from the WWDC keynote. As soon as I post this update I will start installing Leopard. So far, all I can say is that I was somewhat disappointed, even though I did not have many expectations. All those stories about 3D interfaces and multi-touch screens always seemed […]
I arrived this afternoon at SFO, just in time to pick-up my badge at Moscone Center. I am now ready to stay in line for four hours tomorrow morning in order to see Steve Job’s keynote address. I just read a blog entry from a student who claims that they will not be able to […]
The Apple II turned 30 today. To most people this is probably totally irrelevant. To me it is an important part of my life. I discovered computing on a TRS-80 at a local computer club. I read the manual in a single night and started almost immediately working on a game, a train simulator. However […]
News that an American tourist decided to return to the U.S. in a commercial flight despite knowing that he was carrying a contagious potentially deadly virus should have everyone outraged. Selfish cowards like him will put the world population at risk if we were to face a worldwide health crisis like the 1918 Spanish Flu […]
I have spent the last three days attending Basic Blue, a training program designed for recently promoted first and second line managers at IBM. As a technical guy I must say that I have always seen management as a necessity but not necessarily as a great career move. The problem however with techies shunning this […]
The idea of becoming a Second Life user never made much sense to me. My current life is simply too busy to allow me to spend much time in any immersive virtual universe. However, it seems that many within IBM do not share my opinion. In fact, the company has recently increased it’s presence on […]
Last February I bought a PS3. That is right, a Sony PlayStation 3. If I were to believe what seems to be the general opinion on the Net, I would have to conclude that I must be extremely stupid because I could have bought a much better console for half the price. That is at […]
In my family we never talked about sex. That did not surprise me, I thought that it was quite normal. I have since found out that other families are much more open about the subject. Whether this is good or not, is not really relevant to this post. What I want to write about is […]