possessive apostrophe

This possessive apostrophe thing has confused me all my life. It's its' thing.

Onyx multi-touch phone

The link is to a blog website for the Onyx cell phone. It was a proof of concept for the new touch screen interface like that used by the iPhone. This is interesting as the Palm Pre will be using this screen, from the same manufacturer that Apple uses.
Palm is apparently being threatened by Apple over intellectual property. Apple was just granted a very broad patent for touch screen cell phones.

Synaptics has a growing business supplying touch sensors for cell phones. It uses a particular type of touch sensor known as "projected capacitive." Before the iPhone came along, Synaptics was struggling to convince manufacturers that the technology was better than the cheaper "resistive" screens. From an SFgate story about this issue. Interesting battle coming up. I lust after the Palm Pre and bought in to Palm stock again. Too late, but it is making a little.

win on mac with VirtualBox

I've been using Parallels Desktop on my Intel Macs for a while to run Windoze XP. I hardly ever run win, but I check sites with InternetExploder on it. I installed Chrome as well. Since Parallels came out VMWare released a desktop product for the Mac and it has gotten good reviews.

The noise about Win 7 made me want to look at it. Downloads of the beta are free! My Parallels version 3 doesn't install the Win7 properly. An upgrade to version 4 would be $50. So, I looked at VMWare Fusion, which offers a cross grade rebate; prove you own Parallels and they pay you $30. A digital download purchase of VMWare Fusion is $80, same as a new Parallels. A boxed edition from Amazon is $57. Strange days when a boxed version is cheaper than a download.

Then I discovered VirtualBox from Sun. It is free, open source and has gotten some good mentions. Installed Virtual Box and Win7 is one of the choices for automatic installation. How is Sun going to get me to buy a Sparc server by giving away a virtual machine program?

More: The free VirtualBox does not run the graphics card in the MacB Pro. ProBook it should be. Anyway, VB does 'generic vga' but it is a lot more than 'generic vga' used to be; 1280xwhatever, 32 bit graphics. But, it does not do a widescreen Macbook resolution. Runs this Win7 pretty darn good tho, for free.

new presidential limousine

The new Limo looks like a cadillac. Looks like a modified Escalade truck actually. It is all custom built on a heavy duty truck platform tho. The link in the title is the only story I can find that actually says what platform it is based upon. They say GMC Topkick, which is a medium duty truck that has had airport limousine models built on it before.

inauguration

Today is the inauguration. Pretty exciting. 40 years ago MLK Jr was assassinated for stirring up trouble, 20 years ago Jesse Jackson ran a good campaign. I organized Labor for Jackson in Santa Cruz in 1988. Still have a couple T-shirts for that campaign. The Local 23 bus drivers put together a front line. We were all checked by the Secret Service and got clearance and we stood in front of the Santa Cruz Civic Center. Didn't get to hear the speech but we felt important waiting to jump in front of a bullet.

Who else was in that line? Ron White, Wally Parham, who else?

updating

Updating the web pages for the first time in months. Here:
updating this page for the first time in a while. There are pictures that belong in the family doings page, I use twitter a bit and just [14 Jan, 2009] joined Facebook. School is tough with Roxanne in first grade. She is still having trouble with reading and writing. There is a bit of dyslexia kind of stuff; b or d? and I get no help with doing homework. The second Ferret, Zoe II, disappeared. I give up. We got a nice kitty; a mimi. Mimi is kreyol for kitty. Roxy has named her Olivia but I just call her Mimi.

I need a job and it is a lot harder to get a truck driving job than I thought it would be. I just applied to Schneider for a full time over the road job in desperation. I drove a taxi for two weeks but never made more than enough to pay the rent on the cab.

laptop insurance

Safeware offers insurance for laptops which has much better coverage than, Apple Care, for instance. My Treo 755 and Centro can be insured much cheaper than what Sprint charges as well.