Listening to: Minority Report - Jay-Z Feat. Ne-Yo

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Listening to: Minority Report - Jay-Z Feat. Ne-Yo

David Sobotta’s essays on Apple makes for a good Apple reality check every now and again. His latest post is on the current options problem and how certain attitudes at Apple are encouraged.

Listening to: Minority Report - Jay-Z Feat. Ne-Yo

John Edwards announced his plans to run for US President on YouTube…

Will using the new media system work? Don’t know, but it will be very interesting to watch.

Listening to: Candy - Talk Talk

This pot outlines the process of integrating 2D and 3D in the current version of WPF. Very cool!

Listening to: Talk Talk - Talk Talk

Christian Cantrell demos some early Apollo apps (and answers the “why” question):

Other Apollo posts of note:

• Apollo and Windows Presentation Foundation - Comments from the Blogosphere
• Mark Anders on Flash development - some Apollo v WPF/e comments (src: mike chambers)

Listening to: Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting

Here is a magical demo of a research project by Lionhead Studios:

src: digg

Listening to: Do You Wanna Ride - Jay-Z Feat. John Legend

I got a real chuckle from Rod’s latest ironing/hotel story - glad to find out that I’m not the only ironing geek that I know:

Listening to: Do You Wanna Ride - Jay-Z Feat. John Legend

Beware Stupid Little Thoughts

Stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts

Listening to: Do You Wanna Ride - Jay-Z Feat. John Legend

I am currently reading the wonderful book Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution (a very well written story of ILM and Pixar)… this early test by John Lasseter is a great bit of supporting material. The movie is a delightful bit of animation and shows what a master Lasseter is at telling stories.

src: VNOG Blog

Listening to: The Paradigm Shift - Rhian Sheehan

I attended the Aquaflow Bionomic test drive this afternoon - a world first running of a vehicle on bio-diesel derived from wild algae. The car was running on a standard B5 blend.

Oh yes! Work it does!

UPDATE: World first wild algae bio-diesel test drive

The world’s first wild algae bio-diesel, produced in New Zealand by Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, was successfully test driven in Wellington today by the Minister for Energy and Climate Change Issues, David Parker.