It might sound like the worst buddy pic ever, but the video of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sharing the stage for an interview at D5 was pretty good. The prologue has some clips from Gates and Jobs appearing together at various things, such as the 1997 MacWorld keynote. I remembered watching Noah Wiley and Anthony Michael Hall in Pirates of Silicon Valley, and wishing I could have seen the keynote address where Bill Gates talked at the MacWorld Expo via satellite. Having never seen the actual footage from that keynote until now, watching the real thing in the prologue was uncanny, almost as if it were the remake and the movie were the real thing.
The seven part video is worth a watch if you have a geeky interest in computers like I do. If you’re only slightly interested in hearing the computer industry’s arguably most powerful geeks, check out the highlight reel. The highlight reel is a pretty good edit. You can see the discomfort the two had answering some of the questions, but you can also see that they enjoy conversing with each other about the things they are passionate about, their past business partnerships, their current business partnerships, and the future of their respective companies.
Note: This post does not contain my best writing, but it is late, and I have had several late nights this week, and I am just not writing very well right now (what a run on).
As those of you computer geeks already know, Microsoft announced its Surface product, a computer that allows touch interfaces similar to the technology used by the Pre-Crime Bureau in the movie adaptation of Minority Report. At its core, Surface is nothing more than a high-end computer, a rear projection screen and five near-infrared cameras to detect input, all running Vista with the Surface software on top.
While the input method is innovative, I saw a video of multi-touch interfaces demonstrated last year. It’s great-looking technology, and it can have many useful applications, but are we ready for such an enormous paradigm shift? For example, it’s been more than twenty years since GUIs have been standard on computers, but I still find myself occasionally aching for a command prompt to quickly get things done (thank you, Cygwin) when a point-and-click interface just won’t do. Are you ready to drop the keyboard and mouse to use your fingertips to navigate around a computer?
I sort of started cleaning up my office on Saturday. I don’t really know what possessed me to do it. I just started cleaning up my desk, and then I moved to the big plastic containers that sit behind my office door. Then I started going through boxes of back issues of Rolling Stone, Road & Track, Car & Driver and Maxim. I had two U-Haul small boxes, and a U-Haul medium box full of magazines! Most of them are going out on the curb tomorrow night to be recycled into toilet paper and napkins.
Then I started on my college books. I emptied a small box of folders and notebooks into a large clear plastic container. I put more textbooks onto the bookshelves that sit half empty, requiring a good cleaning to get rid of the dead bugs, spiders and web that have accumulated over the past three years or so. I’ve got things mostly organized and cleared out, if necessary. I just have to do the final sweep and vacuum to clean up the last bits. Then I have to decide if I should do any painting before I start shifting furniture in and out of the office.
It’s going to be at least a week of hard work if I decide to paint. And who knows, maybe I’ll finish my office before I finish the living room and dining room. I’m probably going to order some paintable wallpaper to help conceal the imperfections in the wall, as well as to get rid of the horrible wallpaper that currently resides on my walls. The diamond pattern is the current favorite, followed by the hip hop stripe. Really, anything is better than these horrid yellow flowers on yellow and white stripes.
This video created by a Modest Mouse fan might just cross the line from fandom into fanaticism. The video is an animated collection of 4,133 still images taken by a digital SLR camera. Each of the stills is of various city settings, and in each of the stills is a photocopy of a frame of video provided by Modest Mouse. Some of the stills actually contain the video frames projected onto walls of various buildings. The still images were collected together and animated, then put to the music of the video from which the photocopies originated. While I’m not a big Modest Mouse fan, this video is probably one of the best music videos I have seen in a long time. Check it out:
GM is requesting that its Saturn dealers put a Toyota Camry on their showroom floors. Saturn dealers can put a Honda Accord on the showroom floor instead of or in addition to the Camry. According to Toyota’s Wade Hoyt, this just takes the trash talking of the competition one step further.
Through focus groups, GM has discovered that many customers liked the Saturn Aura over its competition when compared side-by-side without any brand name badges. I have not had to buy a car straight from a dealership. If I did, I would appreciate being able to see the competition without having to trek across town to visit the other dealers. Then again, I would probably choose a car before leaving the house, and only visit the dealer for a test drive and to seal the deal.
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Not only do I need to do some cleaning around the house, but I also have to do some digital cleanup, as well. Tonight, I cleaned up a lot of old TV episodes that I have not watched in a while and probably will not watch any time soon. I even cleaned up some movies that date as far back as 2002! I just finished clearing my Yahoo! Bookmarks, which is what got me thinking about all of the cleanup I have to do.
I have to organize Flickr, del.icio.us, ask-mark.com, my network shares at work and my work laptop, and my Linux server and my Windows desktop at home. I probably have gigs and gigs of duplicated data that can be consolidated to a single file store. Argh! I hate cleaning.
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