Karls Blog

Some eye opening statistics - I now donate monthly to Unicef, hope you will too!

My laptop has decided enough is enough and decided to just stop working. So I've started looking for my new desktop replacement laptop, and TJ pointed this one out :)

http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_5.htm

Anyone got any thoughts on a desktop replacement / laptop power house???

I saw Niels has put up some interesting thoughts about Donations vs VC. Check out his Digg link (and Digg it if you do :))

http://digg.com/programming/Open_Source_Donations_...

...from the mount of Seth Godin - worth it - GREAT speaker - bloody funny :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-410128028...

As I mentioned yesterday, when the Steve Irwin story broke, news sites came to a crawl. Computerworld has a story to confirm my suspicions:

Crikey! Crocodile Hunter news devours bandwidth

From the article:

"...Other sites operating on low bandwidth were NineMSN, which had a four-fold increase in traffic..."

The guy was popular!

A really nice side-by-side comparison of Google Maps vs Yahoo! Maps.

Melbourne, Australia

Google wins hands down here :)

I got this in an MSN msg from Hayden:

Steve Irwin died today on the 4th of September, on the Batt Reef, near Cairns. As a sign of respect for the Australian cultural icon, please place a turtle ( tu ) at the start of your name, and forward this message on to others...

Horrible day - Steve Irwin died after being stung by a sting ray in Queensland. This news is bringing the news web sites to a crawl - more so than any political story I can remember ;)

The Age

Hearld Sun

I just posted this post, and noticed that Live Writer had truncated some of my links (I fixed one by hand, need to fix the other!). Thought it was just me / Firefox / interop issue. But then I picked up Daves feed and noticed that his latest post had truncated URLs as well. Seems like an issue when you cut and paste the full URL into Live Writer! Guess thats a) the point of Dog Fooding and b) the reason its BETA :)

News is a flurry around the net, but Vista RC1 is finished:

http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006...

Thats great news - I dont mind trying RCs on my prod lappy :) It will also give me a chance to start from scratch because IE 7 RC1 has been a right pain for me:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/li...

On my prod laptop, keeps crashing my Outlook 2003 even after I uninstall a bunch of Outlook plugins. On my home machine, the chrome painting is terrible (reminder to self - post screenshot!). Hopefully, Vista RC1 will help me :)

Flash turns 10 today (thanks Ben ;). Check out the Adobe Flashback Flashfuture mini site:

http://www.adobe.com/go/flashtimeline

Also was having a MSN conversation with a bunch of current and ex WDGers, and Splasha sent around this link:

http://www.thefwa.com/flash10/final.html - The Most Influencial Flash Site Of The Decade

Ahhh the memories :) Gabocorp did it for me - it was HUGE back then, and started a new way of thinking for web UIs. That and a hotel booking engine (name escapes me) where I could see a real world use for Flash other than the 'wow' factor!

Wonder where we'll be in another 10 years :)

First saw this on Franks blog, but seems like MSN Live now has aerial views of Melbourne - the best town in the world ;) Here is the link for my Home Sweet Home!

http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=aN.8pxsnvx2bkgf_Home...