Winnie The Pooh Comes Home

I drove to pick up Winnie yesterday. He is beautiful. The photograph does not do him justice.

We can't thank Lisa at Paws and Purrs Cattery enough for selling Winnie to us. She contacted us the day he was born. Winnie was the first red that Lisa has ever had.

Getting him to sit still long enough for a photograph was not easy. Let's just say that it took roughly 100 frames to get this :-)

Is This The End Of Firewire?

Much to the dismay of many technology junkies, Apple's new Macbook does not have a firewire port. Firewire is much faster than USB 2.0 and allows Mac users to transfer files much faster. In addition, it allows the use of "Target Disk Mode," which in essence, allows you to boot your computer from an external drive. This is a great feature should you experience a hard drive crash.

Steve Jobs feels that many devices are now USB 2.0 compatible and we may no longer need Firewire. Let's hope that Apple sees the error of their ways on this one.

Weekly World News Returns

Good news. The only truly reliable news source is back - the Weekly World News. The Weekly World News has always been checkout line entertainment. The reason that I even noticed this was the dive crew at Jack's Dive Locker in Kona told me about the Mermaid story.

The real story is that as a practical joke, the owner of Jack's Dive Locker, Jeff Leicher, called the Weekly World News to tell them that he had spotted a mermaid in Kona Hawaii. The Weekly World News asked Jeff to take photos with film that they would provide. Jeff loaded his underwater camera with the roll of film at took overhead shoots of his wife wearing a monofin. The rest, as they say, is history.

Best Halloween Pumpkin Ever

This is great! It is the 'Red Ring of Halloween.' For anyone that has ever had an Xbox 360, this will look familiar. It is the Xbox 360's blue screen of death (BSOD).

Boo Boo Comes Home

Emily and I drove to Columbus today to pick up Boo Boo. It seems like we have been waiting for this day forever!

We can't thank Teresa Signore of Highlander Cattery enough for selling Boo Boo to us. She contacted us the day he was born. I have seen numerous catteries in my life and Teresa's is by far the best!

And so the journey begins.................

Windows 7 is Official

Microsoft announced that the next version of their operating system, code named Windows 7, will officially be named - Windows 7. Very creative.

Let's just hope that it is more stable than Vista was at launch.

Ultimate Luggage!

I found this piece of luggage today on Tumi's website. It is only $7000. If you purchase luggage like this you are not the kind of person that is worried about airline charges. Hey, you probably don't even carry your own luggage.

It reminded me of the movie "Joe vs. the Volcano." If you haven't seen the luggage store scene it is one of the best in movie history.

Ninja Cat - Diggnation Video of the Year

The top rated social network news site, Diggnation, ranked the ninja cat video the best of the year. It is hilarious.

No More Drunk Emailing!

How many of you have been victims of drunk dialing, or worse, been a drunk dialer? Google Labs has come up with a new feature just for you - Mail Googles.

What a great idea. When the feature is enabled, you must first perform a few simple math problems to verify that you are in the right state of mind. If you can complete the math problems within the specified time frame, you are free to send email.

By default, this feature is only active late night on the weekends. What a great tool!

Wanna Be James Bond 007

As a former spy, I can tell you that it is not all that it is cracked up to be. While James Bond makes the job look sexy, most days are spent driving dignitaries around acting as their bodyguards. Sure, infiltrating organizations and governments to uncover secret information is a large part of the job. However, most of the job duties are not as exciting as James Bond makes it look.

Another downside of being a spy is the job is 100% travel. As you might well imagine, attrition in the intelligence community is rather high. So, what is the best way to recruit new talent? MI6, the British Secret Service, is using Facebook to recruit the next generation of spies. Previously, MI6 recruited primarily from both British military and Universities.

The new MI6 slogan is: "Time for a career change? MI6 can use your skills. Join us as an operational officer collecting and analyzing global intelligence to protect the U.K."

Sure beats a desk job!

Winnie is Two Months Old

Little Winnie is two months old today. In this photo he just woke up. I wouldn't be happy either. :-) He is really much redder than this photo shows.

He gets to come home in 23 days.

Microsoft's New Zune Phone

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is at it again. Today he told the UK media, at the Professional Developers Conference, that Google's Android phone would have no impact on Windows Mobile 7. He went on to say that Microsoft's new Zune on Windows Mobile phone will be a huge success.

Hey Steve, how is that Zune market share thing going anyway?

Blue Cloud of Death

You have to love this. Steve Ballmer announced today that Microsoft is going to release a new OS called "Windows Cloud." He further went on to say that this new product would allow Microsoft to unseat Google as the king of cloud computing.

Can anyone say 'Blue Cloud of Death?"

James Bond Camera on eBay

This is certainly stranger than fiction. An MI6 operative, a James Bond in real life, sold a Nikon Coolpix 4300 on eBay recently for $30. The problem is that he forgot to erase the top secret documents that were on the camera. This included details of the encryption system used by operatives.

Fortunately, the person that bought the camera found the photos and contacted the Foreign Office in the UK. No one knows how the camera found its way to eBay. That is their story and they are sticking to it.

Boo Boo is Two Months Old

In three and a half short weeks Boo Boo gets to come home to live with us. It is hard to tell from the photo but he is already relatively large. He is going to be a big boy that is for sure.