Ever since I switched recently and for a little while before that too I have been following news about Apple. There is an interesting article on Robert X. Cringley’s “I, Cringley” page about the future of Apple following the creation of a separate iPod division. Mr. Cringley evaluates it in relation to a 20 year old quote from Steve Jobs. Interesting items include “What most people don’t know is that Apple, with the assistance of Intel, a few years ago ported all its software to run on Intel’s Pentium processors."

Divide and Conquer: Why Apple Has an iPod Division

Today I registered on Audioscrobbler. It is a community of people sharing information and stats on what everyone is listening to. Generated data is available under a Creative Commons License. The client is great. Once installed it quietly works in the background, gathering data from the media player (in my case, iTunes) and transmitting it to the server. My account is here.

There was recently a post on Metafilter about Jon Stewart’s commencement address to William and Mary college. The speech is quite funny. Here are links to that one and other funny commencement addresses:

Jon Stewart’s (‘84) Commencement Address

Conan O’Brien’s Commencement Speech to the Havard Class of 2000

Everything you ever wanted to know about the awwesooome Homestar Runner in a convenient Wiki format, editable by fans. (Seen on Metafilter)

Homestar Runner Wiki

Just like pursuing any academic goal, pursuing a PhD has its own set of requirements. One of these is the actual writing of the thesis, which I hope to do someday. Maybe then this HOWTO will help.

How-To: Write your doctoral thesis || kuro5hin.org

Also, check out Jorge Cham’s www.phdcomics.com

Today, Sony released the PSP and Nintendo released the DS at E³. I think the PSP looks much cooler than the DS and would love to get my hands on it. Dunno if or when that will happen but it would be cool.

E3: Sony PSP High Resolution Shots and Final Specs

E3: Nintendo DS High Res Shot

This post marks the beginning of a blog that I hope to update regularly. Of course, if I don’t, then I will delete this blog after some time and this post will never have existed. Well, it may be archived on some server somewhere on the web, but then that is inevitable.