Aug 272010
Aug 252010
First post to wordpress from my iPhone. Yay!
Jul 132010
This wonk from MSNBC gets it. Monkey Boy doesn’t. Here’s the reasons why Windows tablet computers, and will continue to do so… Windows7 or not:
1. The hardware required to run Windows 7 with full graphic support isn’t thin or cool.
2. The interface was designed for a mouse, keyboard and larger screen.
3. PC multitasking is not the same as tablet multitasking.
4. There aren’t (m)any touch apps for Windows 7.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results” – Albert Einstein
Jul 122010
I’m 40 now. Know how I know?
I had 3 weeks off from hockey. My body really hurts.
Jul 122010
Microsoft CEO touts new Windows tablets vs iPad | Reuters
Yeaahhhhh… that’s gonna help. So I can’t help but wonder how a Windows7 tablet is going to improve over a WindowsXP tablet… seeing as how they pretty languished in mediocrity before. A desktop OS is just NOT going to cut it, dude.
I mean, the entire ‘tablet market’ was expected to max out at around 1.5 million units sold worldwide last year. And then Apple came out with the iPad and sold 3 million in 80 days.
If you treat the tablet just like a laptop in a slightly different shell, you’re going to fail. And that’s what Microsoft is doing here. And that’s what’s going to be the end result.
As my friends at MacDailyNews say:
May Steve Ballmer remain Microsoft CEO for as long at it takes.
Jul 022010
AP INTERVIEW: Passion Play called more balanced – Yahoo! News
Story about the gradual refresh of the Oberammergau Passion Play. Several years ago, my parents went with a group from our church on a trip to Europe, including Germany, where they saw the passion play performed. Anyway, this all seemed reasonably OK to me ( the Jews didn’t create the need for Jesus’ death, they were just the ones that were used (along with Judas) to implement it) until this point:
“Jesus understands himself completely as a Jew. He was never baptized, he never had a First Communion, but he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at 12 and died as a Jew on the cross,” Stueckl told the AP at an interview in May. “Increasing awareness of this is very important to me.”
Uhh…. WRONG! Jesus *WAS* baptized. In fact, that was a major identifying factor in the beginning of His earthly ministry leading up to His death, burial and ressurection.
Matthew 3:13-17 (ESV)
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. 16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
And then this:
However, this year’s production is a far cry from past performances, when Jews were shown with horns and the Jewish crowd affirmed that Jesus’ “blood be upon us and upon our children.”
Oh, you mean THIS?
Matthew 27:24-26 (ESV)
24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” 25 And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” 26 Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
I understand the whole “Jews with horns” thing is flat out unscriptural and well, just weird, but the crowd affirmation is straight out of scripture. Sorry, that’s just the way it is.
Again, the need to be “tolerant” of other people, and not over-inflammatory is a good thing. It really is. But like anything else, it can be taken too far. And in this case, it has been once again. When you start ignoring scripture and actual history in the name of tolerance, you have a problem.
And our dear brothers and sisters in Oberammergau appear to have a problem. I pray they work it out. The Oberammaergau Passion Play is a beautiful thing, I would hate for it to lose it’s integrity.
Jul 012010
Sharks sign Niittymaki from Tampa Bay
Not a bad choice. He was relatively inexpensive, salary cap-wise, so hopefully this enables the Sharks to resign Setoguchi and perhaps upgrade another forward or defenseman position.
Jun 302010
HockeyBuzz.com – Eklund – RUMORS OF OFFER SHEETS: Antti Niemi and Bobby Ryan. LA/StL/Tor Kovalchuk
The most definitive offer sheet rumor I am hearing is that of Antti Niemi. Sources have confirmed to me the following: “There is a team out West who feels by tendering an offer sheet to Niemi they would not only help themselves, but also hurt the Hawks as well, since the Hawks are up against the Cap and would not be able to match to sign Niemi.”
Hmm… who could that team out West be?
Niemi would look good in teal. Very good.
Now if I could just figure out what the heck Doug Wilson was thinking by signing Wallin to a $2.5 Million contract…
Jun 282010
OK, so the premise behind Evernote is a good one. It gives you a web-based notebook that syncs to various devices. It’s a great way to take notes that can be accessed from several places.
I find it extremely useful when passing information from my MacBook Pro to the Windows partition on my MacBook Pro.
As a notetaking platform, it has a tremendous amount of potential.
Except that it completely sucks.
The thing has massive bugs in it, particularly when trying to pass rich text (such as bold, italic or colored text) back and forth. For this reason, I find myself looking for reasons to us it, then dying a little on the inside when it inevitably fails miserably.
It’s free and all, but if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. And when it starts hindering you more than it helps you, you start looking for ways to replace it.
Am I confident that there’s a reasonable replacement that does what Evernote says it does without sucking? No. But I’m open to the idea.
Jun 282010
Yeah, i know, I know…