Monthly Archives: January 2008

Putting in the hours

for (i = 0; i < ∞; i++)
{
    Start with a regular 8 hour work day.
    Come home and have dinner.
    Then sit down for another 5 or 6 hours of work on other projects.
    In the meantime, try to get your car repaired and plan a wedding.
}
Not recommended.
Updated: Forgot the infinite loop!

Carbon nano tubes is the new black

Apparently, some researchers have developed a new material that is so black, it absorbs more than 99.9% of all light, making it the darkest material known to man. According to this Reuters post, the substance is more than three times darker than the current holder of the Guiness world record in “darkness”. This bit made [...]

MacBook Air

Bleh. Turns out, the MacBook Air isn’t quite what I was hoping for. I wanted a small notebook, not a “thin” notebook. I can’t really see the advantages of having such a thin computer. There are, however, lots of disadvantages:

No optical drive.
No Ethernet port (!).
Tiny harddrive (80 GB maximum).
Slow harddrive (4200 RPM parallel ATA).
One USB [...]

There’s something in the air

Apparently, there’s something in the air at MacWorld 2008. Nobody really knows what this means, but most likely, it means Apple will be announcing a new subnotebook, something people have been waiting a long time for. The last small notebook Apple did was the 12″ PowerBook G4 and that was ages ago. Personally, I have [...]