9:30 PM

This morning I was woken up by the wind and rain about 6AM so I am a bit tired right now. I really needed a bit more sleep, but alas, I didn’t get any more. Nor did I get a chance for an afternoon nap at my desk. That is the advantage with working from home, you can do strange things like that. And whilst I dont where bunny rabbit slippers, I do have some lambskin ugh boots for when it gets colder.

7:30 AM

I got an email from a friend this morning letting me know that another friends company had released a new version of their Program. The company is InstantEffects and sells a PowerPoint Plugin which allows 3D presentations to be done easily. It really is an amazing product, and I just wish I was an investor in the company. You can download the trial version of the product for free, but you need to be warned… You need a decent video card to run the thing. It runs OK on my laptop, but not great. My laptop was the top of the line Dell 18 months back with a nVidea graphics chip and 128 mBytes memory and it still was a bit slow. The CEO, Don Brittain, has his own Blog too…

Mobile PC’s

MobilePC Magazine has an Article on the history of notbook/portable computers, starting with the 1975 IBM 5100 Portable weighing 25Kg. Actually the article is missing photos of many of the important milestones along the way, including the Tandy Model 100 that was very very light, albeit not all that much use for much other than word processing. But it would run for hours on a set of AA batteries.

Music:

Natalie Merchant once more on Random Play, with San Andreas Fault.