Driving... like a nun!
The flood has slowed to a trickle but there are still a few new netbooks showing up on the scene, sadly none of them are grabbing my attention. The Lenovo S10 comes in between the Acer and the MSI and is a solid offering. The Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo is said to have, umm, build issues. The one netbook I’m still waiting for is the Dell Inspiron 910. Dell have been doing many things right lately, let’s hope this is one of them.
Apple is being counter sued in their suit against Mac clone, Psystar. Psystar claims Apple’s habit of locking everything down is anticompetitive. You can read the whole thing here…
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10026033-37.html
I’m not sure where I stand in this to be honest. If Macs were still a proprietary system I would be completely on Apple’s side. As it stands today however, Mac is nothing more than a PC with it’s own OS. If the OS were to be let loose on the world Apple has no legal obligation to offer support beyond it’s own systems thus preserving the “Mac experience”. So, is letting it out of the “compound” such a bad thing?
Back to normalcy, or lack thereof…. I made the hour voyage to Ikea today. The Speed limit on the highway starts at 65 for the first 25% and lowers to 55 for the last bit. Normally doing under 75 on any of it would mean certain death, but today staying at 60 was impossible. I’ve heard from a few people that this is directly related to the price of fuel and those people tend to clog the tubes. I’m not sure what the problem was but it was a bit confusing. I built myself up and got into Michael Schumacher mode only to abruptly de-escalate into “Sister Mary of the Divine Miracle” mode.
I cracked 2000 miles in Nike+ today. That would be miles run with the Nike+ only. There was a point where I didn’t use the Nike+ system and only ran with the Nano or Shuffle. There was the death of my original Nano too. Long story short, went for a run last year and it was nice out. I was about four miles from the car when it just started pouring. Well, needless to say the Nano got soaked. I let it dry for a few weeks but it never lived again (the Nike+ sensor and receiver were fine). I held off for a few months before replacing it hoping that Apple would introduce the 3rd gen Nano but gave in (aka I was weak) while walking thought the Apple store in Shady Side. Just as an estimate, I would say I’ve run about 16 months without the Nike+. I’m still waiting for Nike and Apple to release something for iPhone 2.0 that uses GPS. That would be just awesome enough for me to ignore my overwhelming hate toward AT&T and buy one.
