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One of the funniest videos from Top Gear… I love this show.

Rumor has it NBC is bringing this to the US!

Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

Very funny stuff.

Macheist 2 is live and 25% of the money goes to your choice of charities.

I already bought by bundle, I also did this last year. So if you have a mac and you want a great deal on some cool software for you mac, go to Macheist.com and buy the bundle.

You get the following software for $49.00:

1password $29.95
CoverSutra $22.00
Cha-Ching $40.00
iStopMotion $49.00
Awaken $12.95
Speed Download $25.00
AppZapper $12.95
TaskPaper $18.95
CSSEdit $29.95
Snapz Pro X $69.00
Pixelmator $59.00

All for $49.00!!! and 25% of that goes to charity!

What are you waiting for?

I loved this show. The movie was good but the show was much better, a true space western.

Well, 2007 is done. Let’s look at my predictions from last year…

-Apple will launch a cell phone with iTunes built in via their own carrier network and feature data services

Half right, iphone launched but on AT&T

-Apple will launch a tablet like laptop, possibly preloaded with Windows Vista

Might have been a year early…

-Apple will launch iTV not as a cable box / tivo replacement, but as a IPTV video on demand / subscription model

Not even close

-Microsoft will launch a Xbox 360 to Zune video transfer service, allowing Zune owners to transfer movies and TV shows easily to their Zune and back.

Wishful thinking

-Microsoft will launch Vista (duh!) and it will be very popular as you will not be able to buy a new computer without it installed (ok maybe linux will be on the desktop this year)

Wow, way off, Vista was one of the worst launches of an OS in history

-Microsoft will launch a Zune enabled cell phone based on the windows mobile platform

Nope

-Microsoft will update the Xbox360 to include an HD-DVD player or atleast bundle the usb accessory at the same prices.

Nope, although the hd-dvd player did get cheaper

-Cable modem and DSL speeds will increase dramatically in 2007 without the price going up significantly

Not unless you count speedboost from Comcast

-Someone will offer al-a-carte TV download subscription model to compete with cable and satellite service

Hulu, Joost and others launched but no one really hit a home run.

-Blue-ray will die off or at least become the betamax to HD-DVD

Battle still wages on

-Sony will write off the PS3, potentially selling it to Apple (wouldn’t that be great)

Nope, but they are giving them away.

-Wall Street will hit all time highs

Yeah, but no thanks to the mortgage industry

-Google will launch an Operating System will all google applications

Andriod did launch for cell phones

-We will finally find Osama bin Laden, probably in Pakistan

No such luck…

-Terrorists will try to attack us, but lets hope we are able to stop them and not drop our guard

No terrorist attacks

-Mozilla Firefox will double its userbase and become the “standard” browser for all web based applications.

Well, maybe… But IE 7 did help win back some people.

Ok, so I had very little success predicting the future… So this year I will make one prediction. It’s all or nothing.

I predict that there will be a new president elected… Hehe… Ok, that’s a given.

For my 2008 prediction, I predict that Hillary Clinton will NOT be president. As for who will be, I will leave that up to all Americans to decide.

Honestly, I can’t see any of them as president so I have no idea who will win.

So there you have it, my 2007 wrap up and on to 2008

Well, I was baching it for the weekend. Kids and wife were visiting the inlaws.

I worked on Saturday in the office and proceeded to upgrade to Leopard on my Macbookpro. Did a clean install and had to reinstall everything.

The only thing that didn’t work is Cocktail which won’t take my old serial number. Guess I’ll have to contact the developer.

I really like leopard on my mac. Everything seems faster. I also upgraded my hard drive to a 250 Western Digital Scorpio hard drive to get some more space. The upgrade wasn’t too hard, about 21 screws and a couple of pieces of tape.

The extra disk space allowed me to allocate about 70 gigs of it to bootcamp and install Vista as a test. The install was slow and painful, but once it was up and running it is very smooth.

Then I did the VMware thing in Leopard and it found my bootcamp partition and was able to get that working. It is slow, but manageable.

So I now have 2 fully functioning laptops in one. A mac and a pc.

Then, based on John’s hints, I decided to try out Visual Studio for web development and switch to ASP.NET and after playing around with it, I think I like it. It is so much easier and graphical, almost idiot proof. Just wish I didn’t have to run IIS to make it work.

I am now looking for php to asp.net converters, if such things exist. I have so much code in PHP and very little room in my head to learn another programming language.

Oh well. Happy New Year.

Check out his website for the source code. Johnny Lee Wii Remote Whiteboard

I am going to try this over the holiday break, this could be a cool extended use of a Wii remote and I love using whiteboards.

Plus the multi touch capabilities has huge potential.

Reminds me of Terminator and those squid like things I used to get that you could throw at the wall and watch them crawl down the wall.

Wonder if it is the material that it is hitting that causes this or if hitting them on any surface would do the same thing?

This will be a hot item if and when it hits US stores.

I like Scrubs, but this was really cool to do.

I always loved Richard Garriott’s games since Ultima I, so I am anxious to see if I should pick up Tabula Rasa, or if my absence from PC gaming will remind in place since dropping WOW.

I wish they’d bring these MMOs to consoles like the 360, especially now with the keyboard attachments and xbox live, etc. I just hate sitting in an office chair playing PC games when I can play on the couch or in a recliner playing on an HDTV projector.