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Well, this weekend was “different”…
Friday I forgot my two cell phones at the office and didn’t go back to get them, meaning no phone calls for me since friday night. I tought that I was going to feel a little bit “naked” but no, everything went fine. Guess I’m not depending from my mobiles as much as I tought. I’m glad I kept a Moleskine with a few phone numbers just in case, and that helped alot.

I spent the weekend at my girlfriend’s house meaning, no technology whatsoever, no blogging, no surfing… just checked my mail and that’s it, a peacfull weekend without almost any tech. I had alot of time to think about the PSP vs iPod issue… and I made my mind. The reasons I’ll explain in another post along with a small review of my new… PSP!

I dropped down on FNAC and got a PSP, Wipeout Pure and Steamboy (UMD movie). When I arrived home, I updated the PSP firmware to 2.0, charged the battery and played Wipeout. I’m speechless… I made the right choice. Now I’m going to configure it to access my SMS router and surf the net with all the confort of… my bed 😀 (after I watch Steamboy that is).

Stay tuned for the review and some photos.

[tags]PSP, Playstation, iPod, Wipeout Pure, Steamboy[/tags]

This is worth of linking…

[tags]Linux, Swear, Kernel[/tags]

Russell Beattie Notebook Article: Why I Might Switch Back spiced up my will to buy a Mac. Not to “switch” from Windows to Mac, because for me that’s totally impossible due to professional reasons, but mostly to have a solid and steady platform at home. Russel’s article claimed some reasons to switch back to Windows… but “For Crying Out Loud”, are those valid reasons at all?

I’m heading for a Mac next year… if not before.

[tags]Apple, Russel Beattie[/tags]

K2 Beta One r77 is out!

i’m going to update my K2 and will lose all my hacks for now… until I arrive home and hack it all again.

[tags]Wordpress, K2, Binary Bonsai[/tags]

Are these guys brothers or something????

[tags]Bill Joy, Eric Raymond[/tags]

Concerning the iPod and the PSP , I’m having almost the same dillema that Rui is, except I’ll only buy one: a PSP or an iPod.

Let’s compare:

iPod

• It’s very sexy
• It plays audio
• It show photos
• I’m heading for the 20Gb version (don’t need more than that)
• Can be used as a portable HD
• Has lots of cool extra gadgets
• Price: 355€

PSP

• It’s very sexy
• It plays audio
• It show photos
• It plays video
• It plays games
• WiFi ready
• Can surf the net
• Storage space limited to the MemoryStick size
• Has some extra gadgets (by now, more in the future)
• Less battery time than the iPod
• No “killer” game available yet (at least for me)
• Price: 250€ (plus 60€ for a game or UMD movies)

I love to play games but I lack the time to play… Music is always present in my day so I should go for the iPod, on the other side the WiFi and Video feautures of the PSP are very attractive… A very very though choice here.

Help anyone????

[tags]iPod, PSP[/tags]

… I’m going to bed!

That’s what I did… Does this mean I’ll have to learn Python?

It sucks!

A one line review. There. I’m sorry Microsoft, but even with WinFX it can’t compete with Picasa / Hello. It’s too heavy on the CPU, it has almost no features / options, and it takes too long to download.

The eye candy is great, a Vista like theme and some 3D graphics, but the options are very few, only the basics and even those are reduced.

Try again!

[tags]Microsoft Max, Google, Windows Vista, Photos, Picasa, Hello[/tags]