Rui CarmoSpent the morning in a corporate event, a welcome reminder of the far-reaching perspective you get by working in a multinational corporation - it's not every day that you get to listen to the CMO of a company this big...
Off-work, things are going to be pretty quiet for a while (tomorrow's the first day of a four-day weekend, and the weather is simply excellent). I plan to try to get some vitamin D, test 3G coverage in hot, inhospitable spots full of sand and salt water, and generally relax. My brain, as usual, will be bored stiff after the first half hour, but there should be enough books around to placate it.
Out there in the Internet jungle, there seems to be lots of shrapnel and idle speculation still floating around from Monday's keynote - there are, however, a couple of odds and ends of relative interest (the scaremongering, FUD and random hysteria is taking its toll on my patience, so I'll refrain from wasting your time with the less interesting stuff).
Here are today's links, then:
- As a counterpoint to another nice Ars Technica piece, Cringely weighs in on the Apple-Intel deal. Some of it is pointed, some of it seems to lack a definite point, but all of it is thought-provoking enough, and bound to be quoted around the Net...
- Some people obviously never used Quicksilver. Spotlight replacing folders? Bah.
- The MSN Search Toolbar is apparently adding tabs to Internet Explorer - Microsoft is taking a couple of shortcuts here, but hey, it's their product. I keep hoping for a "no pointless butterfly and green buttons" checkbox, but aesthetics isn't their forte...
- Prototype is getting drag-and-drop, and it's simply amazing. Sadly, I've yet to write anything useful in Rails, or even get seriously to grips with Cake...
- Incidentally, PHP is ten years old. I've been using it for around seven of them, and it's been worth every second.
A short reminder for Linux folk: Fedora Core 4 is supposed to be out this weekend. Look out for it on the usual mirrors - I'm looking forward to the usual seamless upgrade...