Mac wins

I just read this post at Cult of Mac. The lead architect of Microsoft's Windows 95, 98 and Internet Explorer 3 and 4 now is a Mac aficionado, and has left Microsoft to start his own firm developing for the Mac platform full-time.

On the one hand I think it's poetic justice that he ditched the abomination he was partly responsible for foisting on the rest of us for the superior platform. On the other, though, my dark side thinks he ought to serve penance by being forced to use a 486-66 with Windows95 and IE3.

Trying out ScribeFire

For you Firefox users who blog, check out the ScribeFire addon. It adds a status bar icon that when you click on it brings up a blog post editor. So far it looks very usable, and has more immediate features than the blogger post editor.

Ballmer a switcher?

I have to say that this made my day. Just saw this posted on Cult of Mac. Apparently Steve Ballmer was recently giving a presentation at a conference using a MacBook Pro. Did he give up on Vista, too? If you read the comments there, though, apparently several folks used macs for their presentations, doesn't necessarily mean Ballmer used it - but I have to love the picture nonetheless :)

Posting from my phone

I'm sending this post in from my cell phone, a Palm Treo 700p. If all goes as advertised, this will automagically create a blog post. Pretty cool, huh?


UPDATE: so yeah, it worked, but it did post my email sig, so I took that out.