Happy New Year, everyone! Hope this year is better than the last. I’m in Irvine right now, with family. I won’t be back in AZ until the 4th. Looking forward to relaxing for a couple of days.
There is no Windows 7
Here is a first look at the Windows 7 beta. All I could really get from the review was that “it’s done”, and that it “feels snappier” and that it is “more responsive”. In the screenshots it still looks like Vista. The taskbar reminds me of KDE. A bunch of torrent sites have the beta…
Where has all the good music gone?
I’m writing this partly in response to this well-written post. I couldn’t agree more. There is a serious dearth of good mainstream music today. Granted, my tastes are geared more towards various forms of Rock and Metal and so I’ll be referring to bands that mainly play that kind of music. I rarely listen to…
Running the JavaFX 1.0 SDK on Linux
The JavaFX 1.0 SDK was released today. I’ve played with the preview SDK, so I was pretty excited to try out the 1.0 SDK. Inexplicably, and this was the case with the preview SDK as well, Sun hasn’t released a version of the SDK for Linux. However, this wasn’t a problem because it was possible…
Publishing to twitterfeed
I just got myself a twitterfeed account so that I can publish my journal entries to twitter. I hope this works.
Being a part of history…
Being part of a historically significant event is not something everyone can claim, and this is why I feel so privileged to be part of one today. This was the very first election I voted in since I got my citizenship last year, and I can’t find words to describe my pride in being a…
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My new T-Mobile G1 Android Phone
So I got my T-Mobile G1 Android phone yesterday, and boy am I excited! I had mixed feelings about it initially because I wasn’t so sure of the form factor. I remember thinking that it looked a little clunky, but now that I have it here, in my hand, I have to say that it…
More pretentious Haikus
balmy summer night someone else, also alone feelings shared — Listening Song of an Ancient City And it gives me Strength — Digital stream weaves And you search for love In its warp and weft — words that leave my hand feelings on a screen I lay my soul bare — looking back i see…
Weary, solitary, flight
Dreary dancing under the fire-born moods Has fallen cold light footfall; But the indolence of wine The Incorruptible Rose of Houlihan. With white birds on to be, and his animal blood astir And glittered in dew, The changing eyes blind With lightning, but the bone. The heavy flooded waters in a red wine And a…