April 20, 2010

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:59 PM

Good morning! Another brisk, but sunny morning. 42°F. Heading down to Boxborough after I drop the girls off. 6:21am

It was a nice drive in this morning. After such a rainy weekend, it was good to need sunglasses. I offered up a Rosary for Michelle's continuing good health and then listened to more of "Anna Karenina". 9:10am

Went with a former AMD coworker for a simple lunch across the parking lot at the cafeteria. 65°F and sunny. Sweet! Great walk! I'm almost glad I don't have a window office because I think it would taunt me too much. 1:03pm

Bookmarks I made today:

Sign up for Flash Player and Adobe AIR betas for Android
Comment: Evidentally Adobe is not going to let the Flash/AIR vs HTML5 mobile browser battle go down without a fight.
Excerpt: Flash 10.1 might not be coming to Android till the second half of the year, but users can sign up to enter the public beta today. Adobe announced in a new blog post that they just started the private betas ...

Hackintosh-friendly Dell Mini 10v discontinued
Comment: Too bad. This was the machine I used to make Michelle's Hackintosh for Christmas. http://flic.kr/p/7rw7i5 It was among the most hardware compatible netbook for Mac OSX out there. I think every feature worked, even things like the webcam, Bluetooth, and power management.
Excerpt: The Dell Mini 10v, choice of netbook hackintosh owners everywhere, has apparently been discontinued as of a week ago. Although the Mini 10v has been a hackintosher's dream machine, I have no doubt that other computers will come along which prove equally as hackintoshable

Happy 87th Birthday Mother Angelica
Comment: Happy Birthday to the foundress of EWTN. She was one of the gutsiest women I know.

Thomas Sowell : The Limits of Power
Comment: He goes on to say, "The current leadership in Washington operates as if they can just set arbitrary goals, whether "affordable housing" or "universal health care" or anything else -- and not concern themselves with the repercussions -- since they have the power to simply force individuals, businesses, doctors or anyone else to knuckle under and follow their dictates."
Excerpt: The point of all this is that when even slaves had to be paid to get certain kinds of work done, this shows the limits of what can be accomplished by power alone. Yet so much of what is said and done by those who rely on the power of government to direct ever more sweeping areas of our life seem to ...

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