Some disturbing thoughts

This morning while reading my feeds I had one of those moments while reading several feeds that i connected some possible dots and they where somewhat disturbing to me. One article I read was over on scobleizers blog about the Microsoft acquisition of aQuantive. And I read some other posts concerning google and dell whether [...]

Flash(Flex), Silverlight and JavaFX my thoughts

The last month there where a lot of announcements regarding Flash(Flex), Silverlight and lastly JavaFX. All seem to occupy a certain space in the RIA environment. And of course all vendors are making claims which isn’t to surprising I should say. But these claims have made me thinking about them.
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Time for reading

Yeps, sometimes you take the time for reading and I’ve decided to read the following books (actually mostly I just read them in the same timeframe, which makes it maybe somewhat harder, but it keeps the mind at least busy):
One of them is workbased and is targetted towards learning more about Ruby:  Beginning Ruby on [...]

Portable mediaplayers like Creative, iPod, Mpio and Zune

Well there are certainly a lot of mediaplayers available and on the pic you see the two which are owned by me. The left one of course is my iPod nano and the right one is my old Mpio, which is very damn smal, but then also only sports a meager 256Megs internally. In the [...]

My Garmin Forerunner 305

I happen to own a Garmin forerunner 305 which i use for my workouts, and I do love it. My only gripe is that I still have to use windows to download the data to the motionbased website, but I can live with that. You can’t always have it both ways (you actually can download [...]

Am i getting glitzy GUI tired?

Lastly I’ve been wondering whether I suffer from a serious “Tired of a Glitzy GUI” syndrome. You might think why, let me explain. The last few months most tech publication on the net or in print have been busy describing the new gui’s of Vista and Office and somewhat less about the glitzy gui possibilities [...]

Conversations

Though it has definitely become part of our daily work routine, I have never really liked the programs I’ve had to use for getting access to my email account. To be more precise, reading isn’t the thing that bothers me, it’s the manner I’ve got to organize my emails that bother me. It’s very hard [...]

Barking up the wrong tree

This morning I noticed the article Scoble wrote concerning the MS vs. Adobe Death Match  And my first thought was that it concerned the PDF brawl they were having, but it actually concerned Dreamweaver vs. Visual Studio 5. I followed the link and had a look at some of the videos, which are somewhat laughable [...]

What happened to Palm

I just read the following post over at zdnet:
Palm announces the Treo 680 by ZDNet’s Matthew Miller — Palm officially announced the release of the Treo 650 successor that runs the Palm OS and does away with the external antenna. 3G and WiFi support is not provided on this unit that should be on [...]