Sheeyah!

Going on a trip? Want to find the best seat on the plane for the cash you are about to spend? Visit seatguru.com and hover over your potential seat with your mouse. It tells you the specifics on leg room, noise, smell, etc.

Pretty good idea.

I try not to republish the billions of articles you can find on other sites but I just couldn’t keep quiet about this.  Seven XP (http://sevenxp.niwradsoft.com/) changes your windows xp icons, wallpaper, login, boot screen, taskbar, etc to look exactly like WIN7. It’s one of the coolest themes I’ve seen for XP in a while and unlike windows blinds you don’t need to install some complicated framwork because it’s an all inclusive installer. Check out the screenshots!

Note: At work we’re still on XP, so I was looking for something to class-up the interface.

Donna Simpson, 42 year old mother, currently 600 pounds and hoping for gold. What will the gold get her? A 1000 pound body (still the same small brain). Thanks mom, I knew you had it in you, your such an inspiration!

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/donna-simpson-nj-woman-ea_n_501245.html

This article from CNN pretty much comes to the conclusion that there are links between IQ and beliefs. It appears to only apply to males, still the study is fairly interesting. Men who are liberal tend to have a few more IQ points in their favor. Same goes for atheists.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/#

We’ve seen the news and I am still looking at the published iSuppli cost of the ipad. I added some difference calculations, and it just doesn’t make sense. Now let me preface that by saying I understand there is marketing, r&d, etc to create a product but when you break it down how does it make sense to add a 25 dollar part then charge 150% over what it costs and pass it to the consumer? I’m sure other products are the same even most blackberry models do this with their combinations of GPS, WIFI, etc.  Check out the updated chart below.

Not going to say a word…..

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OK great the iPAD has been announced. Now lets compare it to its close relative the iPod touch and iPhone. Let me start by saying I’m a PC, but prior to the announcement of the iPad I was thinking this might be a nice device to have as a spare.

What are the problems with the iPad in my opinion?

1. iPad Doesn’t Support Flash. Not sure what is taking so long on this front.
2. It doesn’t have a webcam? Think about it, what about Video Conferencing?
3. OSX is half installed on this device. The iPad is meant to work like a peripheral where you need to dock it and sync it to a main station. They really want to make it a giant iPod Touch!
4. No Support for installing your own non-apple approved applications. This means no Microsoft Office! they did say you can install iWork though. But there are many compatibility issues with that.
5. This one is very important. NO MULTITASKING, seriously in 2010? OK so if I want to open a spreadhseet and run itunes I can’t? Or if I have a document open and a spreadsheet i can’t do that… hmm maybe there’s an app for that?

So it this the end all “netbook killer”? No, not by a long shot. It is a cool device and “revolutionary”? No, but it is pretty neat. More to come later.

Links to Apple Site for Specs
www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html
www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

So Hillary gets all high and mighty about internet freedoms and tells China how it should be done. Forgetting the obvious hypocrisy why would she waste her breath here? It’s my understanding that the US while powerful, isn’t as powerful as we once were. Sure I’m all for nationalism and I love the USA but seriously I wish we would step back and take care of our own before butting into others affairs. China is right here and we shouldn’t tell them how to run their “internet”. Did she honestly think that they would say, “Ohh you know what? You’re right lets open the net to every Chinese citizen and let them see the horrors of the world and our own country.” pretty stupid Hillary, pretty stupid.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8474011.stm

Yup it’s all over the net in 2011 they plan to make you pay for access to their site. It’s a growing trend to those newspapers searching for revenue and dealing with the new tech age. It make sense for them but these days the minute an article is posted or what might be termed an “exclusive”, can’t you find it in 5 minutes on any bloggers site? The answer is yes, the net is a vast regurgitation of  junk including this post you just read! hah… anyway good luck New York Times Online.

Links to regurgitation:
http://www.neowin.net/news/2011-to-spell-the-end-of-free-new-york-times-online-access?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neowin-main+%28Neowin.net+Main+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Anyone out there in my position?  Since the revision to the first time home buyer credit the IRS stated that they were making a new Form 5405. This is the main form that you need to submit to get 7500 or 8000 depending on when you purchased your new home. I’ve been looking for this new form since Nov. 12th and check it nearly 2 times a week. Here is what it states:

this 2008 Form 5405 can be used only for homes purchased before November 7, 2009, for which you choose to claim the credit for 2008. We will issue a new revision of Form 5405 soon.

Typical government, the first time I checked the form it said it would be out late December, then the next week the first week of Jan, now it just says “soon”

Anyone have any information on this? Why are they dragging their feet?

Link to Form – http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f5405.pdf