Cloudy Thinking

My “secrets” are safe with you, my trusted and TIGHT LIPPED readers. As first reported a January 14, I have confirmed that two users of the (excellent!) IBM T42 experienced fires while doing a long compile of Linux source code. Yes, the CPU fan failed, as we speculated.

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Peter Macaulay points out that Skype is showing over 5 million online users today. I saw that earlier today, although at 7:25pm Pacific there are “only” 3,082,792 users online. That’s a lot of VoIP users…

A friend just showed me OS X running on an IBM T42 laptop. Apparently a developer version leaked out that was tweaked to run on some but not all non-Apple hardware. This hacked version is not production ready, but as a proof of concept it’s pretty interesting.

I am skeptical whether I will adopt Microsoft Vista, the “next Windows” after XP.

But in the spirit of fairness, you might want to read Why do I need Windows Vista?. A Microsoftie enthusiastically highlights what he considers the top few improvements in Vista.

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Terry Teachout writes about the Sony eBook reader in The Wall Street Journal. I’m pretty sure I’ll want one of these.

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A friend’s pregnant (full term) wife returned from her daily five-mile walk. Shortly thereafter she told her husband that her water broke. There was a brief discussion about what that meant, and what their “next action” should be.

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PDFthisPage just works.
[via Gordon McClean Miniblog]

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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has announced global contract sales for 2005 reached $8.2 billion USD, a year-over-year growth rate of over 40 percent.

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This Is the Title of This Story. (By David Moser)

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If you’re one of the handful of people who have not read “the world’s best blonde joke,” here’s the link.

This is a true story. A (Caucasian) mechanical engineer from [telcom company XYZ] was at the airport with a fellow worker from East India talking on the phone about BOMs.

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A tiny, rather obvious and almost inconsequential feature the Google email client has my heart pumping. This user interface breakthrough is a dedicated DELETE button on the main screen.

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