infrequent rambling

There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

it's easy to poke fun at things people have said in the past, but ballmer's stubborn pre-launch views that all apple products are doomed to fail is becoming comical.

The computing core - 34 racks, each with four chassis of 32 machines each - adds up to some 40,000 processors and 104 terabytes of RAM. The blades read and write against 3 petabytes of fast fiber channel disk network area storage from BluArc and NetApp.

hard to imagine that kind of computing power really.

Sorry for the radio silence – we have some good news: the first run of units will go out in March! We do not know how large the run will be right now, but it will not fulfill all of the pre-orders. We'll let you know if you're in the first batch as soon as we can. Thanks for your continued patience and interest in WakeMate; we can't wait to show you what we've made!

i hope mine is in the first batch. i've been playing with the iphone app 'sleep cycle' and whilst the idea is good, having to put my phone on/under my pillow is annoying. i look forward to using wakemate.

When you start something new, sure, there’s a learning process. But also realize that while the learning is good, the doing doesn’t have to be complicated at all. Find the simplest way to do things, and just start doing it. You’ll learn by doing.

the three examples listed are exactly how i have tackled things in the past. researching every option, putting too much time and thought into things. now i'm trying to simplify and take the simplest approach as it allows more time to actually do things, rather than think about doing things.

also, his point re: blogging - just hit publish - is why i love posterous so much.

i spend too much on apple gear. i have a dentist appointment next week. :/

Stop buying unnecessary things.
Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.
Reduce half again.

List 4 essential things in your life,
stop doing non-essential things.
Do these essentials first each day, clear distractions
focus on each moment.

Let go of attachment to doing, having more.
Fall in love with less.

something i have been trying to do this year. i'm a collector, avid spender and sucker for shiny new things. less is a goal of mine to save money, reduce my consumption and to do fewer things, better.