Well Nikhil tagged me on this one ages ago but as I was battling with my own inner thoughts this got delayed and today I thought about finishing this one to be cheerful enough for the evening- we have my firm's 90 years of celebration Mid Winter Ball at the Sky City Grand Hotel! The dress code is elegant wear with twist of 1920s and I am donning myself in a designer hatler neck Rosewood Gown and chandalier earrings-quite perplexed!

He visto varias veces el video de la presentación del iPhone 3G y tengo la sensación de que a Jobs, el presidente de Apple, le ha crecido la nariz. Claro que eso, dicen que el cosa de la edad, nada relacionado con mentir... aquello de Pinocho era un cuento.

First up is Rogers (Canada):

So the cheapest plan will cost: $60 + $8 SAF + $15 Caller ID (and other things) + $0.50 911 fee + 12% BC tax = $93.52. That's assuming you don't go over 150 minutes or 400 MB of data (so much for unlimited data..). And that's how they're able to offer the iPhone for $199 (8GB).

Telia (Sweden):

This chicken salad with curry, apples and almonds has become our favorite over the past 4 or 5 summers.  Following is the recipe for one generous serving but, of course, it can be multiplied by as many people as you want to feed.  I like to have this salad with a good homemade roll.

SHANNON'S CURRY CHICKEN SALAD (One Serving)

Back in April I started a new job at an advertising agency here in Dallas.  As part of the job I inherited an installation of People Cube's Meeting Maker calendaring software running on Mac OS X 10.4 Server.  One of my first thoughts was to get all of our servers off of 10.4 and on to 10.5 Leopard.  As part of that process, I would obviously need to migrate Meeting Maker over to the new server software as well.  Seems pretty simple, right?  It wasn't, trust me.

Apparently Apple left some superfluous designable.nib files in their apps in Mac OS X 10.5:

While Apple may likely be expanding the use of background file compression to save space in Snow Leopard, today's Mac OS X Leopard is unnecessarily overweight due to an error Apple made when packaging the system, according to a developer who asked to remain anonymous. Leopard apps all contain superfluous designable.nib files that should have been removed in the Golden Master. "Mail alone has around 1400 of these files, taking up almost 200 MB of disk space," he noted.

Resulta que hace no se cuánto tiempo, este hombre adelantó que se iría. Y lo cumplió. Bill Gates, el nro. 1 de Microsoft, aquel que empezó con Steve Jobs todo este infierno en el que vivimos hoy en día, se acaba de retirar.

Eso quiere decir muchas cosas. Pero la más importante es... ¡ ME ESTOY VOLVIENDO VIEJO !!!

Como es un loco lindo y tiene más plata que la que todo un país podría gastar en su vida, se armó su propio video de despedida. Está disponible desde hace algunos días pero hoy Jonatan Guguel encontró una versión subtitulada.

Writing this on my new iMac. It comes with the best keyboard. Really, having typed on hundreds, this one wins. Had it for three days now. That isn't why I'm writing. It just came to me. Best. Keyboard. Ever.

Anyway, my six weeks with Apple.

PERHAPS the most heavily promoted cider in the recent boom is Magners Irish Cider. You can't have missed the advertisements adorning every commercial break on television, or the billboards on the side of buses. So, cajoled by marketing, I have here a small bottle of Magners:

It's a nice looking little bottle of cider. The black cap certainly helps it in the style stakes. And the word "Original" is embossed upon the shoulder.