Tomorrow, Bill Gates is ending his full-time job at Microsoft.

While I have left the PC and Windows behind for personal use, I have to say that most of what I’ve done in my professional life has been done in a PC, and the passion and love I feel for technology involves everything from PCs, Macs, UNIX systems, and everything in between.

He, who has been labeled as evil, is the one among the very few people who has made it possible for almost anyone with a fairly reasonable economic power to own and use a computer, to have an email address, to use a word processor, to do your taxes in an easier way…

Thank you for all the hard work you’ve done for the past three decades.

Your legacy will prevail… whether people like it or not.

I have been testing Firefox 3 for a bit now, and I have found a very pleasant improvement of the Remember Password feature.

In the current Firefox 2.X, the Remember password feature acts as a popup dialog.  The problem with that is that I often doubted to click on ‘Remember’ because I wasn’t sure this was the right User/Password combination for certain sites, so I often clicked on ‘Not Now’ when I thought I might have got that Password wrong.

Now on the Release Candidate, you actually login, and instead of a popup, it actually opens the dialog as a bar right below the tabbing area.

This allows you to wait a little bit and see if the password actually worked.  If you were able to login to the protected area, then you can click on ‘Remember’ from the new dialog.

That is great!

“I’m not driven by making a cultural impact [...] That’s just a consequence of taking a remarkably powerful technology and making it relevant. [...] My goal is simply to try to make products that really are meaningful to people. Ultimately there is something motivating and inspiring in seeing someone using an Apple product and enjoying an Apple product.”

-Jonathan Ive, Interviewed by The Independent

Ive is Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design, and was in charge of designing the iPod, iMac, iPhone.

If you watch CNN every once in a while, and if you’ve been watching it during the long long long 2008 Election campaigns, then you have seen The Wall.

It is rather awesome, so check it out at Perceptive Pixel.

Since I’ve been away from the movie-going scene, I feel like I need to go and watch these movies… The Oscars just went by and I didn’t watch any of the featured movies.

• Michael Clayton
• There will be Blood
• In the Valley of Elah
• No Country for Old Men
• Atonement
• Gone Baby Gone
• Juno