Poetic justice

It's such a nice feeling to sit in a Microsoft office in SF, browsing
Google reader with my iPhone. I'm awaiting the start of a presentation
on Windows 2008 Server. Am I excited? No, I rather dread every new
Microsoft OS. But managing this stuff is part of my job, so I must
know what to expect.

Oh, btw, it sounds like IT at my work is preparing to release Vista to
the desktops/laptops in about 6 months. I hope it's not mandatory.

A feature the iPhone really needs

The iPhone has many deficiencies, but thankfully its benefits far outweigh its deficiencies.

One of the deficiencies I'd most like to see remedied, and soon, is over-the-air calendar and contact sync, with web-based access. I.e., a service like dot Mac, where contacts and calendar entries are automatically sync'd in real-time, and are accessible via a web interface.

After email (which the iPhone already does really well), this is the single greatest feature of the GoodLink service I have on my work-supplied Samsung BlackJack. I love that I can enter a contact or a calendar entry on my phone, into Outlook, or into Outlook Web Access, and everything automatically (and almost instantaneously) synchronizes.

My iPhone syncs to Outlook on my home computer. It drives me nuts that I must essentially double-enter calendar events -- on my iPhone and into 30Boxes. They should automatically sync.

I'd give up 30Boxes if Apple had over-the-air to sync to a web-based calendar service that they provided. That would be awesome.

Cable-based calendar/contact synchronization is so last century. :-)

I bet they'll never introduce such a service, but it would be so cool if they did.

The Hobbit has a director

Woo hoo! Guillermo del Toro has signed on as director of the movie rendition of The Hobbit. This is a good thing, as I really like his work, and Peter Jackson is producing.

recently viewed on TV

I watched the second half of the Super Bowl yesterday with my brother. What a good game! We had no preference as to who won, so we cheered for whoever had possession at the time. We really enjoyed it.

Afterward I was feeling really lazy, so we decided to watch the first episode of Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles. We had watched the first ten minutes a while back; at the time, we were very tired; we turned it off and went to bed. I wasn't too impressed with what we saw so far, so I haven't been hurrying to get back to it.

After some good words on the series from two sci-fi connoisseur friends of mine (Shane and Hobbes), we decided to give it another try. We were pleased. I was really pleased. I ended up watching all three episodes before going to bed. Very good stuff; highly recommended.

The Microsoft offer to Yahoo!

Hm. I talked to a Yahoo! Tools engineer at a dinner party last week about the rumored upcoming Yahoo! layoff announcement. He seemed to not know what was coming up. When the announcement was made this week that it would be through attrition, I was surprised that it was so weak. Now we see why.

This is a big deal. The fact that Yahoo! isn't refusing it outright makes me think this will likely go through.

Good grief, now I'll have to close all my Yahoo! accounts. I'm really gonna miss Flickr. Maybe it'll get spun off. I doubt it.