Plug-in car- June 28, 2008 Wired: "Tony Markel drives a plug-in hybrid that runs 50 miles per charge, goes 100 miles per gallon and gets power from the sun. If he has his way, you'll drive one too before long." - This would work quite well for me, we have abundant sunshine 'round these parts to power the little bugger.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/plug-in-car.htm Visio Templates- June 28, 2008 Visio Guy: "Ok, ok, this is all just a thinly-veiled excuse to play with the new Themes feature, see what it takes to create a custom theme with Visio 2007, and share some of that info with all y'all." - Chris explores a new Visio 2007 feature in his own special way. If you're a Visio user, developer, or remember the old vector game, Battlezone, you'll enjoy it.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/visio-templates.htm Movie line of the week answer- June 27, 2008 Good afternoon.No takers for the second week in a row, major bummer.The correct answer was...The Little Rascalshttp://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/movie-line-of-week-answer_27.htm Job of the week- June 27, 2008 jobs.joelonsoftware.com: "The explosive growth of Pelco and the Imaging Systems division in particular has led to needs for a software developer who is passionate about solving complex problems, in particular the design and development of embedded Linux kernel and driver software for high performance DSPs. We need great developers to join our world-class team!" - We're hiring, come on in, the water's fine.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/job-of-week.htm New York, tech job leader- June 27, 2008 New York Times: "If youre looking for a tech job in the United States, the best place to go is not Silicon Valley. Its New York." - We just lost a very valuable member of one of our teams to a company in New York, so there seems to be some validity to that statement.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/new-york-tech-job-leader.htm LG Dare, dead on the vine- June 27, 2008 Apple Gazette: "The phone will retail for $250. You then get a $50 mail-in-rebatewhich will bring the cost down to $200 when you eventually get your rebate check in the mail." - The only chance this phone has to compete against the iPhone, it's one and only chance, is it's offered by Verizon. If you don't want to switch networks you have a phone that is a distant second to the iPhone's design. We're going to see tons of clones now, but that's what happens when you're the best of breed.Good luck.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/lg-dare-dead-on-vine.htm DVD and Books Collection- June 26, 2008 I was looking for a particular title in our pile of DVD's last night, they're in a few places, and couldn't find what I was looking for. Then I though "Hey, maybe we don't actually have this film" I can't be sure, but I'm pretty sure we don't. Bummer, I really wanted to watch it again.Anywho, I thought to myself "Wouldn't it be nice to have a piece of software to organize this stuff One with barcode support and automagic lookup."There is such a beast, it's called Librarian Pro. Time to buy some.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/dvd-and-books-collection.htm National Champion Fresno State Bulldogs!- June 26, 2008 Fresno Bee: "OMAHA, Neb. - It happened, just as it does in the fairy tales. A happy ending to complete this Cinderella season. A movie based on real-life memories that won't go away anytime soon. Maybe not ever." - The "Wonderdogs" do the impossible. Congratulations Fresno State!http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/national-champion-fresno-state-bulldogs.htm Movie line of the week- June 26, 2008 Good morning movie liners! This mornings line comes from our youngest daughter, Bug.Are you up to the challenge Here goes...He makes me melt like a Popsicle on the 4th of July!Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/movie-line-of-week_26.htm Brent Simmons, mad man!- June 25, 2008 Brent Simmons via Twitter: "Finally put NetNewsWire for iPhone in svn. Was relying on Time Machine and scripted backups." - Wow, that's something I'd have done straight away, but I'm paranoid like that.I think the bigger thing to take from this post is we're getting NetNewsWire for the iPhone. I look forward to using it.http://rob.crabapples.net/2008/06/brent-simmons-mad-man.htm |