Cirque Du Soleil is doing a whole new show based on The Beatles music at the Mirage in Vegas. Next trip, Vegas baby, Vegas! Link: cirquedusoleil.com
May, 2006 Archives
$100 Laptop
One Laptop per Child has allegedly declined offers from Apple and Microsoft in favor of running open source software on their laptops. However, judging from a photo of one of the $100 laptops, the OS has strong similarities to Mac OS X. I personally don’t think it’s OS X. The icon sizes don’t have the [...]
The MacBook – and Apple’s new portable strategy
So here they are. The iBooks get the Intel treatment along with a slick new design that comes in black and white flavors. For an Apple geek, days like this, when Apple releases new products, is like like a holiday. It usually means I spend countless hours dissecting specs, reading commentaries online and discussing it [...]
Shuttle Preview
Let’s be frank here, WordPress rocks, no doubt, but since it’s early beginning, the interface design has lagged behind it’s technical powers. This is why since December of 2004, Khaled, Michael Heilemann, Joen Asmussen, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar and later Bryan Veloso started Shuttle, a collaborative effort to bring design beauty to the WordPress [...]
David Blaine Goes Underwater for 7 Days!
[ photo credit: nanooo ] David Blaine is doing it again. He’s going in a water tank for 7 days! A task that has involved some serious fasting to get rid of solid waste for 7 days. And the finale will be televise on ABC monday night at 8pm/7pmC. Link: Flickr Tag for David Blaine [...]
Power To The People
We were part of history today. We went as a family to support our people here in Los Angeles. Today there was a march and a boycott in every hispanic state in the US. Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami unified in a MASSIVE show of unity. A reported 400,000 people in LA alone, [...]
No Reboot Yet
Last week I got to do many hacks to WordPress. Wrote a plugin for a client that allows you to have custom content on the sidebar per post. Got rid of most of my comment spam, hacked my RSS feed to show me unsubscribed comments and reluctantly password protected a WordPress site. In other words, [...]
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