IE9

Upgraded to IE9, not bad at all. Not that I am will to dump Firefox however

New toys - Galaxy Tab

Yes I have been busy if not here.
Been on facebook a lot at michael starhawk

I bought a Galaxy Tab a Few weeks ago from Verizon and I am very happy with it.

Augmented Reality

I have a friend who is very high on this stuff but I am somewhat skeptical

good idea gone bad

There has been a lot of talk about problems with the Kindle once it was discovered that amazon could delete books remotly that you had paid for.

Glenn has several post about it too.

They are refering to it as a good product shooting itself in the foot.

I thing I can add to that with Firefox since my browser of choice has developed a very bad memory leak.
This seems to have something to do with applications run from facebook or myspace (yes I play those).

Kindle

On my recent trip to NYC (pictures will follow, at some point) I had my first changes to really use the Kindle.
Two things:
I reread a complete older David Weber novel and am currently read the The Long Goodbye which I never read. I love it. It works fine and being able to alter the type size is great for my bad vision.

Second:
On the way in I noticed a person next to me read from his also and on the plane back I saw two more. At least one of those was the newer Kindle while I have the older one but it says good things that these are showing up in public so much.

This is cool -Fact not fiction

Paralyzed man moves computer cursor through thought

This is the kind of thing you read about in Sci Fi all the time but it looks like we are getting there.

Crisis Software Development

Have you ever wondered what it like to be under the gun to develop something where time was pressing.

Most software is developed under pretty easy condiction but when you have a natural disaster all schedules get thrown out the window.

Microsoft gets a lot of bad press but they do a lot of good things that they do not get enough credit before. One of those was the development effort behind Katrina Safe and related programs For a really compelling story about how a group of Microsoft employees where thrown together to develop programs for the Katrina disaster start reading here and go forward.

The story of crash software development almost around the clock is told here , here, here, here , here and here.

My congratulations to the entire team you guys did what you could in your area of expertise to make a difference.

Strange Stuff at Google

Every once in a while I go google Starhawk to see where I am. I pretty much have not moved for about a year being the second to fourth starhawk listed.
All of a sudden about two weeks ago I dropped off the front page entirely and the next ten also for that matter.
I sent google a note and they sent me back a reply that I should try googling starhawk.net and see if I was still listed. I did come up but then I tried some other things.
I put in Starhawk+roses , almost nothing then,
starhawk+high hopes (a recent post) again I didn't show on the first ten or so pages ,very odd.
For comparison I went to Yahoo and did the same searches where I came in the top three results.
Then to Alta Vitsa where I put in the same searches, once again I was in the first page on both search engines but almost not on google at all. On google in fact my old blogspot site came in long before anything on starhawk.net.
I sent these results to google and asked them to try it. Once again I pretty much got a run around however today when I googled starhawk I was once again where I used to be.

Very strange.

Technology Works

I found my extra trackball finally and brought it into work.
I pulled out the mouse, pluged in the trackball, all while the machine was running and it works like a champ.
That is the way technology should work.
The trackball is a Logitech.