Automation Adventures

Well, it’s been very busy here the last couple of days. At home that is, the blog was kinda quiet. The hectic schedule from a couple of weeks ago has changed into taking care of a new baby.
Last Thursday, at 7:58AM, we became the proud parents of a little baby girl, named Diana. We got [...]

A hectic schedule at work and at home has prevented me from reporting on the MacWord announcements Steve Jobs made in his keynote. A quick round-up:

Office 2008 native on Intel
Time Capsule, an external hard drive companion to Time Machine, with a built-in Airport Extreme base station. Two versions, 500GB ($299) and 1TB ($499), ships in [...]

Science Daily has an article describing how silicon nanowires can be used to capture body heat, and use that energy to power a wide array of devices. Some examples could be the Department of Energy’s hydrogen fuel cell-powered “Freedom CAR,” and personal power-jackets that could use heat from the human body to recharge cell-phones and [...]

So, with all the dangers lurking out there, we all use https connections to our servers, have SSL sessions, use PGP keys to sign and encrypt our email, and run a plethora of scanners to keep our computers virus- and adware-free. But how about a keylogger that picks up your wireless keyboard transmissions?
This is not [...]

Microsplot has an interesting article contradicting Microsoft’s slogan “100 Reasons You’ll Be Speechless“. Au contrair, MS. People are talking more than ever about Vista, and not all of it is Wow.
Some of the items are not entirely Microsoft’s fault, such as not supplying disks with a new computer, but the majority of the issues are [...]