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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Intuit pushes into CRM software market
The software maker is planning its first foray into the market for small-business customer information systems, putting it in competition with Best Software, Microsoft and Salesforce.com. [CNET News.com (20 stories)]
Neat… the company does a lot of stuff I never hear about.. it’s nice that we are diversifying, and not just the 3 standard products people think we have.
7B44 is flying it’s way onto my HD
I love Transmit boy – it seems to connect right away, and downloads things really well.
Got A New Job
Long story short, I will be moving to working on the other Mac product my company has as of September 8th. Should be fun, a nice change from the same product for 3+ years. I’ll see if I can make business accounting software fun. Or at least working on it fun. 
What’s the true cost of running Microsoft?
How much does it truly cost to run Microsoft software? Though we think of the MSBlast worm as a productivity burner, ultimately, the true cost of using an OS could be a human life. [CNET News.com (20 stories)]
Amen brother!
Russia plans Mars nuclear station
Russian scientists say they will build a nuclear power station on Mars by 2030, but experts question the feasibility of the project. [BBC News]
This is excellent.. Frankly, I hope the Russian’s do it. The US seems to be in a funk in space, stuck in a rut, underfunded as always. Someone’s got to do it soon, cause I’d like to see it before I get super old.
Apple ships the G5 with Mac OS X 10.2.7
Apple Computer Inc. on Monday announced that its newest desktop computer, the Power Mac G5 is now shipping in the single processor configuration — the dual processor 2GHz model will ship later this month. [MacCentral]
Mental note – don’t get up so early in the future – they changed the article a bit.
Apple ships the G5
Apple Computer Inc. on Monday announced that its newest desktop computer, the Power Mac G5 is now shipping in the single processor configuration — the dual processor 2GHz model will ship later this month. First announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple bills the G5 as the world’s fastest personal computer. [MacCentral]
This is very good news! My brother and his friend’s order haven’t shipped yet (dual 2 gig and a 1.8), but hopefully soon for them.
No Pressure coding
I like that time in a project, after you ship. At my place of employment, we call it Tech Initiative time. It’s the time where the engineer gets to go back, and clean up code that he/she didn’t have time to do quite right, or as elegant as they might have wanted to because, mainly, of time constraints.
It’s super relaxing. Heh heh. I like it.. I wish work was always like this, going in and fixing this and that, adding a tiny little feature here and there.
Although I can see the R2 release, far off in the distance, but it’s coming, I sense it.
Maybe I should continue my pet project of re-doing things in Cocoa.. what I really need is a year off to finish it off.
The Restaurant
So, I have to admit, I’m really liking “The Restaurant“. It might be because I’m really into cooking, and have a secret desire to work at a restaurant.
I have a feeling Mark Burnett is kinda playing me though. Maybe things are different when you are there, but Rocco DiSpirito is just making all the classic management mistakes. Like one of bartenders quits – she comes back the next day to talk to Rocco. What does he do? Offers her a management job, and gives her the ‘red Vespa’.
Surprise surprise, everybody else gets pissed.. geezz.. I told Jennifer, that’s a bad idea, the other employees are going to get really mad.
But then I think to myself, maybe it’s because I’ve just seen the past few episodes, and I know how mad everybody his, how much they are hating working there. Maybe Rocco doesn’t see it? Maybe he thinks everything is fine? If he does, he’s out of touch with his employees.
It was good to see him get into the kitchen, where he should be. Sure, he could walk around and greet people, but not all the time. You need to make sure your product (aka food) is good, hot, and tasty.
Anyway, that’s just my opinion.