Tickets available

I was just at the Packers ticket office and they have club seats available for tomorrow's game. First come first serve so if you wanna go, hustle down to the stadium and grab 'em. Face value - beats dealing with a ticket broker! ;-)

Winter wonderland

After some warm weather and rain that washed all of our snow away, we had about an inch of big, wet, fluffy snow last night.

This morning we awoke to sunshine, not a breath of wind, mild temps and snow clinging everywhere.

My picture doesn't do nature justice, but you get the idea. ;-)

LUG meetup

I stopped in on the local Linux users group meetup last night. It was great to re-connect with some old friends who were there - some of whom I've not seen in about 10 years. Had some great conversations with some new friends and overall had a great time. Its always funny to walk into those meetings when they're held at a bar, etc. 'cause here are all these guys with their laptops (no, I didn't bring mine) chatting pretty intensely about technology mostly oblivious to the goings on around them.

Its fun to watch people walk up and ask what they're doing, and the responses are usually fairly entertaining and you get to meet even more people. I think the guys really like it when folks ask what Linux is and they get to quickly explain that there's an alternative to Windows that will run on their PC hardware. ;-)

Anyway, good group of guys, lots of ideas and I hope they keep meeting.

Even Gates knows Vista sucks

Check out the video here. Giz hit up Bill at CES and asked the million dollar question. Gates just smiled and answered. After all he's outa there shortly, his legacy is cemented in stone and money isn't a problem. So yeah, Vista sucks. Like you didn't notice??

Macworld Expo bound

I'm headed to SF for the MacWorld Expo next week. If you wanna hook up, check out the show, talk tech or just have a drink, drop me an email. The keynote should be entertaining as always and I'll do some postings from the show as to the things I think are cool and noteworthy.

Low hanging fruit

In a previous post about the AppleTV, I predicted that we'd see movie rentals (ie movies on demand) from Apple. Seems at CES somebody screwed up and we see here that the Family Guy movie that's playing from a media file (not a DVD) is compatible only with iTunes 7.6. (if you are an iTunes user, your current version is 7.5)

I call this low hanging fruit because in the past few weeks there were a lot of things hinting at this coming at MacWorld.

Eh, so we got it a week early at CES. On accident. I sure hope Steve is kind to those that screwed up and took some thunder from his MacWorld Expo keynote. ;-)

Moore's law in action

In 1976, Cray unleashed the Cray-1 (pictured here) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Today at CES, ATI unleashed a graphics card that's claimed to be as fast as the Cray-1. (pictured below)




We're not talking a core CPU in your machine, we're talking a GRAPHICS CARD. I think all those GPU hackers out there are pretty happy with this announcement.