Good morning! I've dropped Claire & her friends off at school. I'm VPN'ing into the office for today. Looks like today will be a beautiful day outside.
Darn you Abby! I'm pretty sure that she hid her DS with the Phineas & Ferb cartridge in it. Timothy is home all morning and wants to play this new game. Argh!
Big news around the office today: the European Commission (like those in Japan and Korea) has ruled that Intel broke the law, using bribes and coercion with customers against AMD. Now we just wonder what will come of this ruling...
Had two conf calls near the lunch hour. Took Michelle out for lunch afterwards. Michelle is now taking advantage of all the kids being in school and is painting the two newly installed doors. I'm back to debuggin'...
For hardware fanboys: AMD [read:ATI] Breaks the 1GHz Graphics Processor Barrier With Radeon HD 4890 (related link) While this seems trivial on a CPU, it's a lot harder on graphics processor. We don't have the luxury of teams of layout monkeys hand optimizing transistor layouts like the CPU guys do.
So, so sad. "a recent study found that a lack of encouragement of priestly vocations has more do with the shortage of new Catholic clergy than many other factors. No less than 45% of priests planning to be ordained this year reported *they were discouraged from considering the priesthood*, according to a survey commissioned by the U.S. bishops." (related link)
After debugging hardware created in Verilog for the past three years, this past week has had me looking at hardware written in VHDL, my old friend going back to my USAF days. Hello old friend! Stopping for now. RCIA starts in an hour and I'd like some dinner beforehand.
Back from RCIA. I did exegesis on next Sunday's readings. The leader then went over the different Ascension accounts. Next week is the last class until next autumn.
About to kick back and start DVD 1 of the comedy series "The Big Bang Theory". (related link)