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Nickel and Zinc used to make each penny is worth 5 cents. Government worried about shortage in near future.

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The value of American Currency is going down… Google reports the following:

1GBP = 1.9822 USD — It usualy is about 1.5USD per 1GBP
1EUR = 1.2989 USD — The Euro was designed to be 1:1 with the USD.

I’m waiting for the value of the Dollar to go up so I can order my 40EUR Rammstein Hoodie for less than $70.

Damn inflation.

We have just gotten an anonymous tip from a source that indicates that Apple is planning a special event on February 20 to introduce Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), iLife ‘07 and iWork ‘07 as well as updated Mac Pros.

Hmm… maybe some updated Mac Minis and new displays too?

Well, it’s after MacWorld…

I’m underwhelmed by the iPhone. No 3G? eh… I was hoping for 3G… I can deal with it… No 3rd party apps? Locked to Cingular with no way to unlock it? Fsck no!!1!

Here’s an update of my last post, 20 things apple should implement

1. Sell DVORAK Keyboards - I still want one for the Mac.
2. Update to 802.11n - Does this need explination?
3. Upgrade the iSight - 1280×1024 for video… is it realy that expensive or hard?
4. Move the Mac Mini to the Core 2 Duo, work on Leopard - 64 bit is awesome, I’d like to be able to afford it.
5. three buttoned mouse - not five…. three.
6. Update the Mac Mini - 64 bit, better grpahics, silent, Sold state drives.
7. Make the startup chime optional - It just annoys me.
8. Work closer with nVidia and ATI - I want to buy a graphics card at WalMart, put it into my mac and have it work. This means EFI and BIOS support on all cards. EFI won’t get industry support until everything works with everything.
9. ZFS - Make it bootable!

Happy new year and all that rot.

STOP.
INDEXING.
WIKIPEDIA!

Dear Google,
For several days now, Wikipedia has been excruciatingly slow, to the point of it being unusable. I have heard that this happens when you index it, and I’ve noticed that the latest caches of Wikipedia pages are within the last few days. Knowing this, I have been able to determine that you are currently in the process of re-indexing the free encyclopedia. By doing this you are depriving the world of a valuable resource. Please stop. Instead, I suggest that you buy an xServe RAID and ask the wikimedia foundation to copy their articles onto it once a week. Then, the array can be shipped back to a Google office for indexing. This would be cheaper for the Wikimedia foundation, and it would allow for the free flow of information that the Internet and Wikipedia were designed to facilitate.

-jX

I love christmas.

I hate out of tune cellos, small children, and hymnals that don’t keep consistant lyrics between printings.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

EDIT: PS. Cellphones and bluetooth are awesome. They let me update my blog from pretty much anywhere.