Button Maker!

Cool little site I found...
Can make all those little 80X15 link buttons you see everywhere

Totalitarian government in 5 years...

Wow
So now you get investigated for looking in Mao's Little Red book... I seem to remember a government sponsored commercial deploring this kind of behavior a couple years ago... Look how far we've come.
I hear Canada is nice this time of year.

Big Sun Announcement Tomorrow

Imagine you're the owner of a Formula 1 team. And one of your top shop designers calls you over the weekend. “I've got a new design for you. It's a street legal automobile that delivers 800 horsepower, gets 150 miles to the gallon, costs what a Toyota Prius does, can take a corner at 10g, and there's an open market for parts.”

If you're the team's CEO, you're pleased as punch – pick a remotely decent driver, and you're going to blow away your competition. If you're the team's CFO, you're pretty giddy, too – your project risk plummets (each car is normally custom built, at around $300M a pop). Your fuel-based operating expenses are radically lowered. If you're a team shareholder, you're pretty pleased, too – better performance at a lower price? Who could ask for more. Driving might be fun, too.

Now replace the Formula 1 analogy with a computer. A computer that runs five times faster than Dell and HP's fastest Xeon systems. A computer that's one quarter the size. That runs Solaris, and will run Linux and *BSD (and even Windows isn't out of the question). Based on a 9.6 Ghz 8-core Niagara chip available in volume, and compatible with the $120 billion dollar SPARC installed base. A computer that runs the internet like it was purpose built for search, for voice over IP, for video streams and web services and database transactions.
More After Jump
Sound Interesting...

Snow In Seattle...

Well it's snowing. And sticking. It's fun to watch all the natives freak out about driving in the slush.
You'd have thought a blizzard was coming the way the news was talking...