Rui CarmoHere's my Xmas gift hint for your fellow geeks: Themed cookbooks, suited to each one's preferences (soups, pastas, veggie, spicy, etc.). There isn't a single engineer who expects getting a cookbook for Xmas, especially not on my floor (which has a 10-to-1 boys-to-girls ratio), so thinking "out of the box" paid off, if only to see the girls' laughter.
In return, they gave me a Rubik's Cube (the ultimate geek gift) and an angel/devil bottle opener (kind of a subtle hint, I guess).
Much fun was had today. Little of interest in the news, though:
- The Mac OS X 10.3.7 update was recently rolled out - my aging 800MHz iBook feels smooth as silk, haven't updated my iMac yet.
- Here's something the idiots behind Web advertising should read: "...(users) transfer their dislike to the advertisers...""
- The idocy of the .mobi TLD. Between this and taxation, ICANN is bound to be getting a lot of flak in the coming months.
- More heralds of the death of WEP.
- Xmas presents from Apple.
- Some common sense on mobile content.
The weekend promises to be moderately calm, as I lounge around the house and enjoy having already made 99% of my Xmas shopping. Sadly, the iMac G5 I ordered won't make it for Xmas, but I was kind of expecting that already - it's kind of a local tradition for the local Apple distributor to come up short for the holiday season.
And no, the fact that Apple hardware is selling out everywhere doesn't excuse them. Nuno got his, though, which means he'll be blogging ecstatically about it any second now.