Am a pretty happy Canon Rebel owner but loved this article about the camera wars between Canon and Nikon over the years. After reading the article, scrappy Canon reminds me a bit of Samsung in copying a great product and then innovating quickly to become a strong competitor. One eye-opening factoid: Nikon made the optics / bomb sights in the Japanese planes that bombed Pearl Harbor.
Saw this article recently. Computer Science-related jobs are doing well with Software Engineer as the #1 job, Computer Systems Analyst as #9, and Web Developer as #15.
GM finally got around to sending their electric car - Volt - to the production line. The first models are due in showrooms in 2010.
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:
If you always wanted to live in a hotel-sized home, feel free to move to Pasadena and spend $52 million for this home.
Looks like Lance Armstrong is training for the 2006 NYC Marathon on November 5th. According to the article, the longest run he's had to date is 13 miles.
As predicted, the new Sony PlayStation 3 will be used in conjunction with folding@Home to put those spare near-supercomputer cycles of the Cell to work finding cures for disease. Awesome!!!
Apple released a totally new version of the Shuffle today. It is now the size of a postage stamp and can clip onto almost anything. I plan to buy one of these and clip it onto the headphones, thereby eliminating the need for an armband for my MP3 player and no more long, annoying cord.