http://mau.blulit.com Rants, Raves, Random Thoughts... and then some... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:37:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://mau.blulit.com/2008/06/30/bill-gates-thank-you-so-much 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 ... http://mau.blulit.com/2008/05/28/firefox-3-and-remember-password "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 ... http://mau.blulit.com/2008/05/21/ive-on-design 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. http://mau.blulit.com/2008/05/09/perceptive-quite-perceptive 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 http://mau.blulit.com/2008/04/23/movies-i-do-need-to-watch 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 ... http://mau.blulit.com/2008/03/20/renting 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. http://mau.blulit.com/2008/03/20/wordpress-25 A year ago, Ben arrived to our lives. He has been the greatest and most precious gift I have ever got. It has been a great experience, filled with joy, but it has also meant to face many different challenges. Not all is pretty... and many things are not ... http://mau.blulit.com/2008/02/17/bens-first-birthday Microsoft has publicly offered over $44 billion to acquire Yahoo!. The offer arrives just in time, since Yahoo! has been struggling financially, this week they announced 'hundreds' of layoffs. In the end, they disclosed the number: 1000 jobs. http://mau.blulit.com/2008/02/01/the-latest-move-against-mighty-google During our trip to Mexico, Ben turned Ten! This trip was his second. And he enjoyed it very very much. Time to start the Frequent Flyer Program... he has piled up around 8000 miles during his short life. =) From mr.Mau @ Flickr. http://mau.blulit.com/2007/12/17/happy-ten-months Happy Holidays! Have a cookie! http://mau.blulit.com/2007/12/11/holiday-cookies Some of the technology back then just wouldn't have helped much. http://mau.blulit.com/2007/12/09/24-tv-series-pilot-1994 So I go and get something from the little store downstairs. I am thinking I should get some gum or lozenges. I suddenly see this brown Altoids box. Dark Chocolate Dipped Mints. Don't think about it twice, so I go and checkout. Walk back to my desk. Open the package. Put one in my mouth. WHAT THE HECK!! Hot ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/12/05/altoids It has been 9 months since you arrived to our crazy world. It's amazing how quickly you learn new things here and there. And we keep learning from you so much. Your ability to crawl is just fantastic, once you get set, you just go. =) We are just thankful ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/11/17/happy-9-months One of the most awaited features for Gmail is IMAP. After a few years, the Gmail IMAP access feature will be enabled in your account soon. Don't fret if you don't see "IMAP Access" yet under the Settings menu. We're rolling it out to everyone over the next few days. The feature ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/10/25/gmail-access-through-imap-is-here Here are some photos from the Emma Krumbees Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard we visited in Belle Plaine, MN http://mau.blulit.com/2007/10/23/pumpkin-patch-october-2007 It's been 8 months since lil' Mr. Benjamin arrived to our world. I am in awe of all the changes he has gone through in these 8 months. What's really amazing is his ability to makes us smile, no matter how crappy our day was... no matter how gloomy is outside... no ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/10/17/happy-8-months Remember those days when you had ZERO commercials on cable TV? The idea of paying for TV was quite attractive when you thought of not having to watch goofy TV commercials all the time. You paid, then they didn't have to advertise to air programming, it was just ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/09/22/100-commercial-free-not A few weeks ago I settled on decided to buy a BlackBerry. After many many thoughts and considerations, left the iPhone behind and jumped into the CrackBerry bandwagon. There's quite a few reasons why I didn't get one: The network - I wasn't really compelled to join Cingular AT&T. I ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/08/26/crackberried Apple and AT&T have released their Rate Plans for the iPhone. They have the rates for Individual, Family, and Existing plans. I have to say: they are not that bad, considering the unlimited data transfer, mobile-to-mobile, monthly rollover, and 200 SMS included. The Family plan for 700 minutes is only $10 more expensive ... http://mau.blulit.com/2007/06/26/iphone-rate-plans