I went to a Carnegie Mellon alum event at the NASA Ames Research Center, Steve Wozniak was their MC, it was good to see Woz in person. Prof Red gave an awesome presentation, it was refreshing to see someone who loves his job so much.

It is less than 100 hours to DARPA Grand Challenge, best of luck to the CMU Red Team!!

I have more than 1k unread articles, I’m tempted to do “mark all read”… 🙂

I found meebo and I’ve been using it tonight, it’s pretty damn impressive!! Check it out!

Would be nice to have an SSL connection too, I’d imagine a lot of ppl would use it to bypass their work’s firewalls!

iPod nano torturing

damn, poor iPod nano… I kindda want a black one, but I must resist… it’ll only fit like 15 CDs in lossless format anyway… hehehe…

No idea where the synergy is, but I’m sure the super smart MBA types at eBay had good reasons…

Some interesting comments:
Om Malik
Ross Mayfield
Euro Tele Blog

Google page searches for Microsoft content

heh, funny stuff…

So I need a new TV for the condo, I left my old Sony Trinitron in my house in Austin. Well, I need a new TV anyway, it’s been a while. 🙂

I considered getting a plasma monitor, I went to Costco a couple of times to check them out. I usually start my shopping at Costco, mainly because of their excellent return policy (and then I check Amazon next, because of their shipping and return policies, and my Amazon Prime membership, ;))… Anyway, Costco had a Vizio 42″ HDTV plasma for $2k, I found this very long thread about it and sounded like everyone agreed it’s the best deal out there. The thing is though, I kindda need to get HD feeds for an HDTV, and I almost never watch TV live, time-shifting is key, I don’t like watching commercials and I want to watch all the stuff in my own time, usually early weekend mornings… Problem is, there is no HD TiVo yet, and my condo’s patio is not facing the right direction for SAT TV… I can get HD feeds from Comcast but I would have to be there to watch them, which sucks…

So, I’m going to pick up a regular 4:3 TV from Costco, they got this Sharp 32″ flat tube for cheap… When TiVo-HD comes out I guess I’ll consider bring it back to Costco to upgrade to an HD plasma, by that time they should be only around $1.5k, LOL.

And if I do movie nights, I can reserve the 16-seat theater at the clubhouse… I need to check if that costs anything… It really shouldn’t coz there is like a $400 HOA fee… there are 264 condos, that’s $105k a month of HOA fee, which should really more than cover all the fancy stuff they do in the clubhouse and the pools and what not… good thing I’m renting it, that’s a lot of money for HOA fee for a condo. tsk tsk…

Now, I wonder when Sling will have a version for OS X… 😉

iTunes 5, at least the OS X version, looks damn ugly… it looks more like some GTK+ or Qt apps in X…

Apple – iPod nano

Very cool! I knew about this for a while but have never seen the pics… and no, it’s a PortalPlayer chip inside… Should’ve bought some PLAY stocks, but that would’ve been unethical… 😉