I’ve no idea what this ad is about. However, does Microsoft make me sick to the stomach every time I have to use Windows? Yes. Pretty accurate ad then I guess.
Palm Pre or an iPhone 3g S? Let The Register decide for you
The Register has an excellent point by point comparison of the Palm Pre and the iPhone 3G S. I must admit I was tempted by the Pre’s hardware keyboard, but this review says that the iPhone’s new onscreen keyboard in landscape mode is much better than the Pre.
JavaOne 2009 slides now online as PDFs
Sun has the slides for the technical sessions now online as PDFs – check them out here
1TB now the unit of measurement for consumer hard drives
It’s amazing of fast computer hardware changes. Seeing an ad for Best Buy, there were two WD internal hard drives on sale, one for $100 for 1TB and one for $149 for 2TB. It doesn’t seem too long ago that hard drives were increasing in size in multiples of 100GB, but now we’re up to multiples of 1TB. Incredible.