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Apple released the MacBook Air today. It is the world's thinnest laptop. At it's thickest, it is thinner than any other laptop's thinnest. It is a nice boon for the executive traveller who is tired of lugging around extra batteries and a heavy laptop. The MacBook Air weighs only 3 lbs. and has a battery that lasts 5 hours. That's a long battery life, really. My work laptop (not a Mac) has a 30 minute battery life and weighs 10 lbs. The MacBook Air has a full-size keyboard and a bright, clear 13.4" LCD screen.

I have written at length about how the Playstation 3 is vastly superior, technically, than the XBox 360. Playstation 3 uses the Blu-ray format for video and game discs and the XBox 360 uses the HD DVD format for the same. There isn't that much different between the two disc formats. Essentially the difference between the two is the same as the difference between VHS and Beta for VCRs in the 80s. Back then, Sony backed the Beta format. We all know how many Beta VCRs there are now - none.

I have not even been to my own website in over 6 months. Now that I've seen it, I don't like the design anymore. I dislike the font and everything looks a little too red, white, and blue. I'm quite the patriotic dude but I don't feel the need to splash the national colors on my website. Hence, I will be coming up with a new stylesheet soon.

I am a big proponent of finding a viable biofuel alternative to oil for energy in the United States. Ethanol is a good choice but it's been a question whether or not it would be profitable and cost-effective. A new paper published today in the Proceedings of Natural Sciences clears that all up. Turns out that switchgrass produces 540% more energy than is required to grow it and turn it into ethanol. This should clear the way for large-scale conversion of marginal farmland into switchgrass crops.

First post on ForkBender.com went up May 27, 2003. The blogging software is called Exposition, built on a CMS I wrote called Narrative. That code dates back to February 2003.

Saw this on the daily commute. Stopped me cold.

When I commute to a client downtown, I have to take the Metra train. When I take the Metra train, I have to park in the Metra parking lot. Parking there used to cost $1.00 per day but was recently increased to $1.25. So instead of simply slipping a dollar bill into a payment slot, now I have to find the dollar bill and change. Who carries change in their pockets in the morning any more?!?!? Not me. If I use cash during the day and end up with change, I put it into a big change can at home at night for future deposit into the bank. I certainly do not grab a handful of change from the can on the way out the door in the morning, hoping to snare a quarter I can use for my parking fees.

Well, it's been quite awhile since I was regularly writing in this blog. I've written a lot more at my World of Warcraft blog - World of Warcraft Class Guide - than here. But here is a start:

Well, Apple finally released a mobile phone device. It's called the iPhone. I followed the play-by-play yesterday on Engadget. Lucky for me, I made a "bet" on Apple stock before Jobs' keynote speech and bought a big chunk of Apple stock ahead of time. By the end of the keynote, the stock was up almost 8%. Big mobile phone competitors like Motorola, Nokia, and RIM (makers of Blackberry) all took hits on their stock prices with RIM losing almost $2 billion in market capitalization.

I just think it's so cool that "007" makes up this year. After seeing the awesome Casino Royale, the latest James Bond film starring Daniel Craig as Bond, I'm totally pumped about the future of Bond.