WWDC07 Day 1.5

June 11, 2007

I would just like to take a moment to say that I called it! A friend of mine at work said that I didn’t really say anything in that post. Exactly. Neither did Jobs this morning.

The iPhone announcement was particularly insulting I thought. Of course AJAX based apps can be developed for the iPhone. He should also keep in mind that the very same apps will also run on pretty much every other smart phone out there. Making this non-annonucement one of two “One more things“, was the icing on the cake of a lackluster keynote.

The other “one more thing” was Safari for the Windows. Eh? And you make have noticed from the slides that Apple is not interested in claiming Internet Explorer’s slice of the browser market, no they want Firefox’s share and the other 2 percent? The whole thing was bizarre.

Update: Oh and one other thing… one intriguing announcement was EA’s commitment to the Mac platform. I can only hope this means that the will be a Mac release of Spore released alongside the Windows version.

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WWDC07 Day 0

June 11, 2007

Well, after leaving the house around 2:30 this afternoon, I’m all settled in my micro room at the Hotel Stratford in San Francisco. I didn’t handle my own travel arrangements this year, so I had a non non-stop flight (or stop flight?) with a short layover in Dallas before continuing on to San Francisco. This put us here too late to register early for the conference, and more importantly, too late to find one of the many parties. I’ll somehow soldier on. I’ll also be making my own travel arrangements next year.

As I mentioned I’m in the Hotel Stratford. Last year I was in the Hilton. Bit of a difference. By the way, if your also staying here, tap out Shave and a Haircut, and I’ll tap out the Two Bits part. I bet we’ll hear one another.

Guess I should sleep now, I’ve got to get to the Moscone early in the AM.

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Setting a kitten on fire!

June 7, 2007

With all the craziness going on over the last couple days I nearly forgot.

As everyone not under a rock knows, Tennessee is increasing cigarette taxes from 20¢ to 42¢ (or more). The most obvious problem with this is, with $300 million surplus that the state is currently running, why is there a need to raise $250 million more? Lots of people have commented on this very problem. But this is just as, if not more, troubling to me (from The Tennessean 5 Jun 2007):

At-risk students and English-language learners will be the biggest beneficiaries of the increase, netting about $120 million.

Reading between the lines, it’s would seem that half of this money is needed to fund education for illegal immigrants, but I haven’t seen anyone talking about this connection. Smoke up por favor.

Oh, and sorry about the title. Blame it on Kat.

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Unfortunately named

June 7, 2007

At lunch today I stumbled across this business card:

You think Barak Obama is tough, can you imagine the grief this guy would get if he were to run for president. “Vote Nazi!” would be a tough sell I’m thinking. Even waiting for a seat at dinner: “Nazi party your table is ready. Nazi party your table is ready.” We kid of course. If you’re in the market for some real estate, there is a Nazi who would be happy to sell you some.

While I’m at it, I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while now:

This is a picture of some pineapple cake that was brought back from China some time ago. Check out the top two ingredients: Moisture and ash. Mmmmm ash.

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Genealogy Update

June 6, 2007

A couple of notes for my genealogy visitors:

I’ve updated the TNG genealogy software to v6.1. The big addition here is support for Google Maps. It’s pretty nice, but I’ve got quite a bit of work ahead of me not only figuring out lots and lots of latitudes and longitudes, but cleaning up duplicate, misspelled or otherwise screwed up locations. If you know me, you know this may in fact never actually get done 🙂

For an example of an entry the uses Google Maps, check out the entry for my great grandfather: Victor Tate

The other thing, and I think I’ve mentioned this before, I sometimes tend to let suggestions back up a bit before I go through and update the site, but I always get to them! Thank you for taking the time to suggest corrections or additions, I really appreciate it!

Oh and I’m up to 6,666 individuals in the database! More stats here.

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