Top resale value cars
CNN's guide to cars with the top resale value seems useful too.
Hybrid buyer’s guide 2005
While clearing out my browser tabs, I came across this guide to buying a hybrid car -- thought it might come in handy later, so here it is.
Recursive linkage zen
University of Canberra, my undergraduate university has banned Sony music CDs because of their evil DRM scheme. I can confirm that Professor Cheetham is real (he lectured me on electronics), and that the address certainly looks correct too. [icbm: home]
Stilly, the lump of meat
It turns out that not only am I a diagnosis, but I also over estimate, and secretly hate project managers. Thanks Gordon, that's probably the nicest farewell I've ever had. [icbm: home]
Building an answering machine using a $10 winmodem
Perhaps I'll use the uber PC I intend to get in the US as an answering machine as well, although going the whole hog with Asterisk is pretty tempting too. [icbm: home]
Microsoft Australia’s profit
Microsoft Australia's profit drops by 40%. Interesting given that I haven't noticed a marked drop in their sales of desktops and office... The market has grown, and I suspect their share of that market has therefore fallen, but I didn't realize that they were less profitable. Is this because they're not innovating fast enough and there are large gaps between product releases? [icbm: dcs]
People sneak into Google for lunch?
People sneak into Google for lunch? That's just weird... [icbm: home]
Gordon get’s quoted by the Fortune blog
Gordon's blog gets quoted by Fortune, which is really cool, although it does worry me that Fortune seems to think that journalism is blogging about other people's blogs. Does this mean that real journalists have abdicated their responsibility to collect new information? [icbm: home]
ThinkPads return to bricks and mortar retail in the US
I didn't realize they'd ever left stores, but now you can get ThinkPads at bricks and mortar stores in the US. Given my impending travel, come to pappa... [icbm: home]
All racehorses descended from 28 horses
"All thoroughbred racehorses alive today are descended from an elite group of 28 animals imported from the Middle East and North Africa 300 years ago, according to a new genetic study presented at the British Association Festival of Science in Dublin." Interesting. [icbm: work]