Now I Aint Sayin' She's a Gold Digger

But

Man is rich already.
4 years and she asks for a quarter mil?

McCartney ought to have gotten custody of his child and avoided the $70,000/year and gotten his own nanny and put her in school himself.

Heather Mills: She can go get a job.

Bear Market for Bear Stearns.

Bear Stearns purchased for $250 Million by JP Morgan Chase. Bear Stearns specialized in Mortgages, has been around forever and is sold for a quarter bil? I predicted that the market would drop into the 11,000'a but with this news I expect the market to freee fall this week and maybe we'll see 10,000 range.

Sale happening on a Sunday? With Fed oversight? Trying to beat the Asian stock market opening? Not goo at all.

USB Control and Adesso Flexible KB

Although I will probably be looking hard at the iPhone in June depending on th availablilty of a demoed navigation app, I have decided to test out one of those rollable keyboards with my800 in Hoat mode.

The USB control app is pretty straight forward but the keyboard while way more convenient than the onscreen board for longer form writing, is pretty error prone especially the space key.

The USB Control app is very picky about what kind of kwyboard is attached to. It is probably due to pickiness of the ITOS2008 software.

Overall thought I would not have even attempted a post of this length with the thumbboard but I won't be attempting monster posts as is standard on my other blog.

Don't Use 3rd Party Fonts

From Xlr8yourmac.com

Upon calling Redmond for help, Microsoft's Mac Tech Support laughably told me after emailing them a bunch of sample files and enduring several long periods on hold that "the engineers writing the program decided no 3rd-party fonts were being supported in Office 2008 and that I could only use Microsoft fonts."

Can you believe that? I have an old version of Office here (V.x) and I have no intentions of upgrading unless I'm forced to. I use Neo-Office and thus far it does everything I need.

Speed Cameras for I-95

And so CT wants to put speed cameras on I-95 supposedly to protect motorists from speeders. Never mind that speed is never the actual cause of any accident on any road. Of course the real deal here is revenue since if speeding were actually all that dangerous people would actually be arrested for some crime and thrown in jail for doing it. But no, cameras, like Modified Ford Mustangs are the signs of a state going after revenues. I suppose that CT has to do something since it doesn't have the network of tolls that other states have imposed on drivers.

However; in keeping with the "safety" angle, we should look at where motorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifists have been suffering under the big brother state for some time now:

We drive along at what we judge to be a safe speed. Then we catch sight of one of those menacing yellow boxes on their grey stalks, take our eyes off the road and the rear-view mirror to check the speedometer, and slam on the anchors. Before we know it - wham! - the bonnet of the car behind has thumped us up the backside.

This hasn't happened to me yet, touch wood, but you have only to approach a speed camera on a free-flowing road to realise that it must happen fairly often. Suddenly, every driver in front applies the brakes, and slows to precisely 40mph, or whatever the limit may be...


That is what is so unjust about speed cameras. These lumps of metal and wire cannot distinguish between somebody driving safely at 80mph, on a clear dry road, and a maniac tail-gating at the same speed in a blizzard.

The penalty for both - the careful driver and the potential killer - is almost always the same: a fine and three penalty points on their licences. Four strikes and the offender is off the road for a year, which for many can mean losing their livelihood...

Yes, we all agreed that we hated speed cameras. We all agreed, too, that some of them caused accidents rather than simply failed to prevent them (the figures for the Thames Valley police area, where serious accidents had increased in very nearly half of the places where speed cameras had been installed, made that point powerfully).

There you go. Cameras don't do squat for safety but do much for taxes.. I mean revenue.

Yet day by day I see people yammering on their cell phones, texting on their cell phones and reading newspapers while driving. But at least they're observing the speed limit right?

Whither X-Serve RAID

So Apple Announces a new version of the X-SAN product and lo and behold in their diagram the X-Serve RAID is nowhere to be found. Instead we see this Promise RAID. if you search for the X-Serve RAID you are redirected to the Promise RAID. Apple is out of the RAID business.

Snitches in the infield

I'm not one for the whole "Stop snitchin'" thing but how is it your "very good friend" is giving you up? Makes you wonder if baseball players have real friends. I'm just saying, why not say "I don't recall"?