Bad News for Xbox
Windows 7 rolls out to applause. Overlooked is the fact that MSFT will be selling PC’s on the website. Look for them in the MSFT stores too. Free ride for Hulu ending says News Corp. The company also says MySpace stopped innovating. No Blu-ray for the X-box. Is it really China hacking us? Droid coming next week. Some cables modems are at risk. Find out which ones.
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Beatles Crap Out
Barnes and Noble shows its new “Nook” e-book reader. Apple shows refresh of new Mac. Cheaper and better. NASA to launch the Ares IX rocket. Net neutrality in the news. Video game sales falling. Beatles Rock Band add-in was a dud. Meteors coming. AMD shows triple-core chip. Microsoft working on update of Windows Mobile. Canon clunker comes out to compete with Nikon clunker. Cloud computing gets attention in Europe. HP says cloud is dubious.
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An Idle Mind…
I’ve been unemployed for roughly 9 of the last 18 months and it’s beginning to really get at me.
This is not my first brush with unemployment as I spent a whole year unemployed when the .com bubble burst. That experience taught me that even when idle one must keep a regular schedule. If you don’t keep a regular schedule your brain goes soft and it’s easy to descend into a really bad place emotionally.
So this time around I’ve been very careful to keep a regular schedule. I get up the same time every morning with a long list of regular morning activities to do including exercise and reviewing new job listings. This usually leaves me a couple of hours to do some miscellaneous reading/podcast listening/research before lunchtime. After lunch I’ll usually take a long walk then run some errands then do some more miscellaneous reading/podcast listening/research for the rest of the afternoon.
The problem is that the longer I’m out of work the less motivated I’m becoming to do the miscellaneous reading/podcast listening/research because I have little or nothing to apply the newly gained knowledge to. There’s no assignment from the boss. No deadline. No nagging client. So my knowledge gathering time is quickly transforming into time killing. Just wasting time until the day ends. This is not a very good trend and I must find a way to stop it.
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2009 Sucks!
Apple profits way up. Wow. Win7 buzz beginning. I wrote a column about it at PCMAG.com. Gartner says 2009 sucks. Hadron Collider being sabotaged — by the future! Google Voice is great. EU encouraged to pull a Google. I’ll tell you what means.
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Acer Passes Dell
Six year old in flying saucer — publicity stunt? Methinks yes. Sidekick data may be back. Huh? How does that work? Win 7 is not for older machines. Acer passes Dell in PC sales. PS3 Slim coming in November. Oracle creates bragging rights. Screwball ribbon at edge of Solar System. Android on Moto Cliq said to be hot ticket. My thoughts on MSFT stores. ASCAP loses scammy lawsuit.
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