Listening to: Banquet - Junior Sanchez Mix - Bloc Party
My devkit is literally sitting down the road at the FedEx office waiting for the customs paper work to get sorted. The next trick will be to find time… don’t even have time to blog evenly these days.
Listening to: EXPOSÉ on the Journal: Chemicals in Food and Jeffrey Toobin - Bill Moyers Journal
Here you go… It’s a gnat’s fart away from Spook Country - you’ve just gotta replace the ubiquitous Google Maps with you’re own massive data overlay system.
After almost a year of strong sales that have made it one of the dominant smartphones in the United States, the iPhone has settled down to a less-than-spectacular pace: roughly 600,000 units a month, according to the company.
Wow… by what measure is that less than spectacular? This one:
…Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cellphones, sells more phones every week than Apple has sold since the iPhone’s introduction.
I’m out to San Francisco for a week and as usual I forgot something in my packing. This time it was my iPod Touch - in my case this is a big deal because it is a sanity saver. Thankfully I had my phone with me (it’s an iPhone (*) but I never listen to music on it)… and here is the taste of the future - software gadgets rock! I just loaded it up with music and sanity was saved. The whole experience had a delightful maliability to it. A device that I used for one task instantly took on the role of another device. ‘Today you’re going to play music! Make it so.’ I know it’s a bit of a false test but it was a delightful little taste of the near future.
(*) As bad as it looks… I am not a gadget freak - I swear. UPDATE: The missus has notified me that I only just get a way with that claim.
RoughlyDrafted has an interesting retrospective on Apple’s in-house chip design history. The really interesting quote is right at the end (sorry to spoil the surprise):
“PA Semi isn’t a small acquisition, however much Apple’s trying to downplay it. The last company they spent hundreds of millions for was NeXT. At $275M, I don’t believe this is just about better parts for the phone. I think Steve’s got something bigger in mind, although we probably won’t see the results for three years or more.”
I’m really pleased to see that the RepRap built using Ponoko is making some great progress… nice work Vik (*). It’s really exciting to be able to help out.
(*) and a nod to Don for providing a really forward thinking environment that allows the RepRap work to occur at the current awesome rate.
I still vividly remember the day I got home and the BBC B computer was sitting in the spare room. It is one of the foundational moments that has set me on the journey I have taken in the subsequent 24 years. Its great to see such an influential computer getting a bit of recognition.
This will be interesting to watch (an potentially a lot more fruitful than the train-wreak which would emerge from a Yahoo! purchase):
BARCELONA, Spain — Feb. 11, 2008 — Taking steps to place its technologies in the hands of an expanding mobile consumer audience, Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Danger Inc., the company responsible for software and services powering popular consumer handsets. Microsoft also announced that several additional cutting-edge mobility companies worldwide will adopt and deploy Microsoft’s software and services.
