Alan Kay talking about Edsger W. Dijkstra

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After my external USB drive died, i decided it would be a good idea to replace it with a FireWire drive. 

I went for a Lacie D2 Quadra 500 GB drive. It has two FireWire 800 ports, one FireWire 400, an eSATA and a USB port. This is now daisy chained with my larger Lacie drive and a Maxtor drive.

Between the larger Lacie FireWire 800 drive and the D2, i can get an average transfer rate of 30-40 megabytes per second.

On the whole, a good little drive, even if it did come with software to format it.

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser.

Looks very interesting. Definitely worth a look at when it comes to the Mac. 
I’ll probably test it on Windows. 

There’s also a comic.

Today, i started to use the Last.fm application on my iPhone and, i must say, i was impressed.

Despite its problems of using battery like Vista uses RAM, and the fact you can’t do anything else while it’s running. The interface is nice, the sound quality was good, and the recommendations it made were also good.

Once again, it has a few major drawbacks. It will eat battery like there’s no tomorrow, and you can’t do anything else if you want it to keep playing. Thirdly, you can’t control it with the button on the headphones. 

However, on the whole, i believe that this is a good application, and definitely worth having.