Listening to: Square One - Coldplay

Doogie Howser showed me this yesterday…
A sunset on Mars, it’s beautiful.

Listening to: Fix You - Coldplay

The A380 has flown at the
Paris air show. Check out the photos.

Listening to: Square One - Coldplay

A tinsy bit of info about Blue
Origin (wikipedia entry)
has been released. Any company that employs Neal Stephenson has gotta be worth watching
(src: /.).

Listening to: Te Karange - Rhian Sheehan

What is the masculine for the term ‘the missus’?

Listening to: Cat 5 vs Cat 6 discussion

For my own records. Compensation
guidelines for outside directors (Brad Feld).

Listening to: BBC Radio 1

I had a play with as PSP this arvo…. ummm wow! Just stunning. The screen is wonderful
and it completely ‘makes’ the device. I now just need to fight the urge to purchase
the first gen version with the knowledge that it currently has a number of flaws…

‘Yeah,’ I said, passing it back. ‘It did a whole lot for me.’

Listening to: The washing machine

I checked out the latest in Sam Broad’s Tiki/Robot
series of works at Idiom. Tiki
Jumping Jacks.

Great concepts… but it took me a little while to get over the fact that I was able
to touch a work in a gallery.

Listening to: Coldplay in Concert on Radio 1

Yesterday I (it was more ‘we’ than ‘I’ as I went with the missus) went to ‘The
New Cool’ exhibition at The Dowse in The
Hutt

The exhibition highlights some of New Zealand’s up and coming creative businesses.
It provides a real insight into what it takes and what you face when you create a
business yourself. I found it very inspirational. I also loved it because it filled
in the back-stories of some of my favorite NZ companies.

The companies in the exhibition are:

• Dawn Raid Entertainment

• Disruptiv

• First Floor Publishing

• Huffer

• Illicit

• Inject Design

• Insidious Fix

• Loop Recordings Aot(ear)oa

• Metia Interactive

• Misery

• Sticky Pictures

• Sidhe Interactive

Well worth a visit.

Listening to: BBC Radio 1

Now this is an audacious thought…

The crowd this week in San Francisco at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference
seemed mildly excited by the prospect of its favorite computer company turning to
Intel processors. The CEO of Adobe asked why it had taken Apple so long to make the
switch? Analysts on Wall Street were generally positive, with a couple exceptions.
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!? Are these people drunk on Flav-r-Ade? Yes. It is
the legendary Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field at work. And this time, what’s behind
the announcement is so baffling and staggering that it isn’t surprising that nobody
has yet figured it out until now.

Apple and Intel are merging.

Mmmm so, so, soap operatic.

UPDATE: And the slashdot comment of the day goes to:

No Fucking Way. My asshole may still be stretched after all the monkeys flying
out of it from the intel announcemet, but I am still willing to say that there isn’t
a chance in hell of this happening.

Listening to: Background noise

• The
  brains behind Apple’s Rosetta: Transitive

• Picking
  up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC

• Hell
  freezes over; it must’ve been the liquid cooling: Hannibal on the Apple-to-Intel transition

• Apple’s
  Colossal Disappointment