Picture from Engadget.
The HP subnotebook is out. Two flavours — one running SUSE Linux, the other running Vista. Interesting video tour here.
Daily Archives: April 8, 2008
Curiouser and curiouser…
It’s strange what one finds on the Web. There’s a site called Stuff White People Like, which is so languidly smart that the author’s tongue occasionally protrudes through his ear. But apparently his performance has landed a dead-trees book deal. He describes himself thus: “I ride a bicycle in Los Angeles and keep one of the best NCAA blogs on the internet.” So now we know.
Er, what is the NCAA when it’s at home?
Is Gates losing the plot?
Or just demob happy? How else can one interpret this BBC report?
Microsoft boss Bill Gates has dropped a hint about the next version of Windows.
He said Windows 7 could be released “sometime in the next year or so” during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank.
After the event a Microsoft spokeswoman said the new version was scheduled for 2010 – three years after the January 2007 release of Vista for consumers….
Make that 2015 just to be sure.
House prices — the reality
From the IMF paper.
Hmmm… Quite of few of my fellow-countrymen are heading into ‘negative equity’ territory, I fear.