Author: kevin

Steve Jobs yesterday announced what a new gadget that people have been speculating about for some time now – an iTunes phone. How this will sell is anyones guess, but I bet it will do well. This isn’t the first digital music phone to the market, as Samsung have had an mp3 player phone available for some time now.

Also announced were new versions of the iPod mini, now called the iPod nano as they have reduced it in size, and will come in 2GB and 4GB versions.

I just recently completed the search functionality for BBWeblog v2, and have almost completed all the migration from JDBC based DAO to using Hibernate 3.0.

There is still a lot of code cleanup to do (the JDBC migration to Hibernate 3.0 reduced the code in the DAO by about two thirds!), but the current code is currently running on my site for my weblog and online tech notes (you’re looking at it right now!), and so it seems stable enough to run in production. I’ll continue the cleanup and then release the final v2 version when its cleaned up.

You can download the source and or WAR from the project site on SourceForge.

In a bizarre recent court case against a Kai-Fu Lee, a prior Microsoft executive who left Microsoft to join Google, Balmer is quoted to have vowed to ‘kill’ Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

In a transcript of a conversation between Balmer and Lucovsky, another previous Microsoft employee who recently left Microsoft to join Google, Balmer is quoted as saying:

“I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.”

If you had any prior doubts about the business ethics of Microsoft them this surely will cast aside all doubts. Don’t mess with Mr Balmer; if he doesn’t like you he will kill you.

Recent press articles were discussing whether Google was becoming the new Microsoft. According to Balmers reaction, they are all to well aware that they in danger of being dethroned as the big dogs of IT.