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’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.

Myth #1: Renting is Like Throwing Your Money Away

Buyers throw their money away for the first five years they own a home, because they simply give money to the bank for the privilege of borrowing money. Renters, on the other hand, pay for one thing every month: shelter. They don’t pay interest to the bank, property taxes or maintenance fees. They pay rent.

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(via Kottke)

I wanted to congratulate Matt, the Wordpress Team, Mr. Zeldman, Jason, and Liz for the new release of Wordpress.

I have been playing around with it and looks really awesome!

Great interface improvement, and a rather solid RC1.