With the spectacular bankruptcy declaration of Lehman Brothers following on the heels of the feds buyout of Freddy & Fannie, I’m wondering if someone was to perform a detailed comparison of the effects of the subprime mortgage loan fallout vs the effects of 9/11/01, which one affects more lives, jobs and dollars?
I installed Tesuji Made Easy software from Yutopian on Wine running in my Fedora Core 8 laptop. It installed in about ten seconds and runs without a hitch. Then I installed the same software on my Vista machine, and it still hasn’t run…I keep getting errors related to mscomct2.ocx, even after downloading a copy from Microsoft’s website and registering it. It’s so ironic that Windows software runs better on linux rather than Windows! FYI this app is only available in a Windows version, there are no linux or Mac versions … LOL!
DFW erased his own map yesterday. Happily, he used rope and not a microwave. He was 46 years old. The world is a poorer place today.
This morning I attended a training session for a team application development repository, and the presenter showed the above cartoon after asking everyone for their definition of code quality. It was the best part of the training.
Apple got free publicity today by announcing their newly updated line of iPods…but the one feature I’ve been waiting for is not in the new package. Mainly, I want an MP3 player which includes bluetooth so I can use the new wireless headsets to bop around listening to my tunes. So far, these headsets can only be used with cellphones. Since my music collection is rather vast, there’s no way it will fit into the paltry 4G in my phone. (And it might not be easy to play .flac and .ogg files on my N95, either.)
So I’m sticking with my bulky, clunky old iHP-140 until some smart manufacturer introduces a music player with both bluetooth support and serious storage capacity.
Yesterday’s Wired Science posted an article by Alexis Madrigal titled Biologists on the verge of creating new forms of life. It discusses how a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models called ‘protocells’ that ‘can almost be called life’.
Quick, somebody author a Wikipedia entry for ‘protocells’!
David Horsey’s cartoon of Palin’s Alaska record as printed in this morning’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer seems a nice summary of her political positions.
Not to be outdone, the Post-Intelligencer’s arch-rival Seattle Times printed a fascinating and enlightening in-depth investigation of Palin’s first year as mayor of Wasilla by Ken Armstrong and Hal Bernton in this morning’s edition — nice work guys.
Walking home from dinner through the alley last night we came upon this bee doing his job in this sunflower. I can’t believe how well the photo turned out (full size is even more impressive).
Senator Joe Biden, Obama’s VP pick, is no friend to file sharing, net neutrality protection, or online privacy according to Declan McCullagh, CNET and picked up by Wilson Rothman on gizmodo.
I was the fortunate recipient of a free ticket to Saturday night’s STS9 jam at the Showbox — my first STS9 concert. The warmup band was Blackalicious. STS9 performed two sets, the second one started a few minutes past midnight.
I shot the video clip with my phone; it’s from the last song of the second set prior to the encore. This was one of my favorite songs, if anyone knows the name let me know.
The weirdest thing about this band is how they all wear earphones and don’t look at each other while playing — I suspected that they were listening to a click track with recorded instructions on when to change key, when to stop playing, etc. I figured they’d be screwed if the earphones quit working.
On the positive side, their drummer is a human machine. And they hypnotize you into dancing, maybe with the bright lights. They got some pretty fabulous grooves going.
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