Asus Eee laptop

You guys hear of the Asus Eee laptop?
Asus Eee at NCIX

Looks interesting... reminds me of One Laptop Per Child project, except for North American families. Small laptop running Linux with built-in wifi, $400.

Slashdot article about the Eee

Optimus Prime truck on eBay

I couldn't miss this... there is a sweet rebuilt 1994 Peterbuilt made up to look like Optimus Prime from the recent movie.

The eBay listing
Engaget posting

Very cool.

Checking out Twitter

Just checking out twitter, kinda cool!

T

Goodbye Grandma!

Our grandmother on my mother's side passed away last night. She was an amazing woman, and in many ways she was a bond that held the kids and grandkids together. Although it wasn't a complete surprise in terms of health, it came quickly.

Goodbye Grandma, you will be very missed.

Why the Opposition to Technology?

As always, a great article from the Mises Institute - Why the opposition to technology on the right?. Discusses the history behind some of the conservative opposition to technology, pointing to writings by Christopher Dawson.

From Jeffrey Tucker on the Mises blog:

From his first published work Progress and Religion (1929), to the lectures given during the twilight of his career in America, he was emphatic in the judgment that the chief enemy of culture is not liberalism or the other secular religions of progress, but technology...

A feature of Jesus's life that is particularly compelling is that he never reminisced of the glories of the days gone by. He didn't express regret that he was born in 1A.D. instead of 300B.C.. He never drew attention to an economic advance of his time and said: this tool has corrupted us! No, he took it as a given that he was born in his time for a reason.

Absolutely, well put.

Tony

Questions for new hires

Posted questions from Jimbo for new hires. Pretty funny.

1) Do you drink?

2) Do you know more than 10 cute single girls aged less than 30?

3) Do you live in Surrey?

4) Should developers have super-user access to the database?

5) What is better Google or Microsoft?

6) Canucks or Oilers?

7) Do you have allegiance to her majesty queen Elizabeth the second?

8) Is crashing the database at 3pm on a Friday:

1. A sack able offense


2. Bad form


3. Funny

9) Should women be allowed to work in IT?

10) Is commenting your code a great method to vent frustration on personal problems, co-worker peeves, manager mistakes and make amusing references to dragons and snakes?

***Please note your answers will be recorded in our database MERELY for statistical purposes, we assure you they will not be read, studied or laughed at and will definately not have any significant impact on your employability.