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permalinkBook Review, 2009 H1
Quick round-up/review of the books I’ve read this first half of the year.
Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
Fantastic Rainbow in Calgary #yyc
Check out the double rainbow from today’s weather. Fantastic!
Windows 7 Experience
I spent the last few days shoehorning Windows 7 into one of the laptops I’ve got around the house. My day-to-day desktop for development is a MacBook Pro, but I spend some time testing on Windows. I haven’t had a chance to update my Windows knowledge from where I left it at the XP level, so I figured it would be a good time to give Vista’s successor a shot.
Pixel Qi - Revolutionary Screen Design
I’ve been following the story of Pixel Qi for some time. I bought an OLPC during the first G1G1 event and I’ve been impressed with the screen’s visibility and low-cost construction. On top of that, it can turn into a black-and-white, e-ink-like screen with minimal power draw using the same individual pixels it uses for color display, but at 3x the resolution.
Welcome to Calgary
April showers? Ha! Taken outside my driveway:
Update: getting heavier now, near white-out at times. Another shot from the Apple iBlurryCamPhone:
