So long Big Blue

Wow, Cnet is reporting that Apple is moving to Intel CPUs, and will announce it on Monday. I'm surprised, though I know the PowerPC hasn't been scaling like it was supposed to... It's a great move on the desktop, my iMac G5 runs hot and the fans that keep it cool add a great deal of noise. On the other hand, my 1.33Ghz 12" PowerBook is a great little machine, and relatively quiet, even when I'm pushing it to the limit. It gets a little warm on the left palm, but it's quieter than even the Pentium M laptops I've had in the past.

Gift Ideas

Since my 29th birthday is rapidly approaching, I'm going to take this opportunity to say that I'd like the set of grey rubber floormats from WeatherTech for our 1998 Ford Windstar, as well as their racksack for the luggage rack. If it asks, no, we don't have any entertainment system installed. Also, stuff from my Amazon wishlist, especially the Freaks and Geeks DVD set is appreciated, and there's always the cool stuff on my ThinkGeek wishlist as well.

Watergate Primer

Since it all took place a few years before I was born, I didn't really have a good handle on exactly what went down in the Watergate scandal. Fortunately, the Wikipedia has a great entry about it, that explains the whole thing in a straight-forward fashion.

New Blogger

My friend Caran Crawford has started a new blog. I didn't realize that Friendster was hosting free TypePad blogs now, that's very cool.

Paid Off

I paid off my remaining student loan today, about 5 years after I graduated from ISU. Thanks to you, the taxpayers, for floating me that loan. Of course, at the 2.5% interest rate it had been at for the last few years, I really didn't mind paying on it...