Listening to: JP Dub - Rhombus

Found this over at tuaw.
Someone at Google has done a take of
the MacOS X dock on the Google Icons:

UPDATE: It seems that it was taken down quickly.

Listening to: My Friends - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Day 110 is now
online. It focuses on the ’Global Partner Summit’.

Listening to: Way I Feel - Trinity Roots

• Microsoft
  Internet Explorer 7.0 Details Begin to Leak

• Hitachi’s
  Robot Walking Assistant

• Apple May Release Two Button
  Mouse

Listening to: Traffic

<linkfest>

• Sony Ericsson introduces Bluetooth
  controlled camera
• Paperwork stops
  space privateers building lunar lander
• Hondas in Space
• Japan embraces
  new generation of robots
• Kontron to
  Introduce New X-Board Computer-On-Module With Intel® XScale® Technology

</linkfest>

Listening to: Tripper Trouble - dj BC and the Beasties

Dyson has gone back to his roots and has released a vacuum cleaner that has a ball…
I think I will need to trade in my current Dyson. It is a seriously cool piece of
engineering… some how they have managed to build the motor into the
ball.

Listening to: Seed - Epsilon Blue

Found a story on
the Hulme F1 in the paper this morning. The most interesting part of the story is
the quote:

The design of the Hulme road car has been co-ordinated by Associate Professor
Tony Parker, head of the Industrial Design department at Massey University. “New Zealand
has established a reputation for building the best yachts in the world. I believe
we also have the technical capabilities and the industrial infrastructure to create
a quality, hand-built performance car.”

Conceptually he’s right… with one flaw… NZ has a very rich maritime industry in
which the yacht building industry is embedded. That support structure doesn’t exist
for cars. Still I think that with the right approach they could be very successful
as from a structural point of view there is definitely commonality between cars and
yachtes… especially with the prevalence of carbon fibre in the high end of both
industries.

Other stories on the Hulm F1:

• Hulme.F1Champion1967

• Supercar
  dream to become reality

Listening to: Five Minutes Blue - Epsilon Blue

It’s been a while since I have found anything on MocoLoco that
has spun my wheels… today they had a good set.

Rug #1 - Black Urethane Rug.
It kinda looks like a pet oil slick.

Thinology - Bent laser cut steel
furniture.

Jaffe Table 

Lightwave - Lit modular screen/room
divider.

Listening to: Two as One - Epsilon Blue

Day 108 is now
online… apparently all roads lead back to the make up trailer.

Listening to: Street Hassle - Simple Minds

I have become just a little hooked on the new Battlestar Gallactica… as SciFi goes
it stands alone. It’s a joy to be able to watch a reasonably good story (though Andy
is yet to agree with this call and invariably retreats to a book) and vaguely complex
characters.

Anyways, there is a now a PodCast available that allows you to overplay the commentary
by Ronald D. Moore the executive producer. It’s kinda like the old school simulcasts
meets DVD commentary. See this page for
more details.

Listening to: I Wish You Were Here - Simple Minds

The big news of last week was MS getting Groove and Ray Ozzie becoming the CTO at
MS. This is a really big thing and I am looking forward to using the Groove tools
in anger.

Mitch Kapor has a number of fascinating things to say about the purchase and
about taking software open source.

Microsoft
Acquires Groove provides one of the most insightful thoughts on MS I have
come across in a long, long time:

The challenge now is whether Ray and Groove, which represent forces of architectural
innovation, can have a successful impact at Microsoft, which after all, is a large
(58,000 person), middle-aged (30 year-old) company. It’s hard to know whether the
loss of nimbleness due to size and age is a greater challenge to Microsoft than is
open source.

Should
Groove Have Gone Open Source? sheds light on the effort required to move
a code base into the community:

Caveat altert: In a transitional era like the one we are in now, it is notable
that it’s harder to convert a code base developed in a proprietary context to be open
source than it is to start from scratch for the same reason renovating a house completely
is harder than new construction. Trust me if you haven’t been through this. I have.
This is one of the reasons it took seven years from the day Netscape announced it
was going to open source the Mozilla browser to get to Firefox 1.0.

Both posts are well worth reading in full.