The Geeky Brit

The new MacBook Air is pretty thin. It has an awesome tv ad, which even my lovely wife think is pretty cool. It has a solid state hard drive. It has a lot of cool things.

But I think it is more interesting what it does NOT have. For example an optical drive and broadband wireless. I am not sure I could justify buying a laptop without an optical drive – yes even today when network storage is common everywhere you go. I mean, when you need to share a file when there is no network, and you have no usb key with you, there are always a couple of CD-R’s floating about?

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So for those of you who know me, you will know that I am a huge Newcastle United fan, its an english football (soccer) club. I have shared my frustrations with the lack of good EPL coverage on Comcast here in the USA. Well, up until recently, my team has not been having the best of times. But a new manager was appointed last week. Kevin Keegan. Keegan was the manager back when I was first a fan of the club. He brought them back into the premiership and almost brought them the title in 1996. He left suddenly a short time later.

Well now he is back. And I am very happy with this appointment, after not approving of the past few managers…

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Fraud Costs Bank $7.1 Billion – New York Times:
I have had 3 people come up to me this morning, and ask me what I am doing with the 7.1 Billion I have defrauded out of the bank. Apparently the perpetrator, Jerome Kerviel, looks very much like me.
Usually when something like this happens, you check it out, and end up thinking that there is not really any similarity at all. In this case, I was like wow. It almost is me:

Just got news that the state senate have voted to not confirm the appointment of Judy Case to the state Air Resources Board.

Phew, we can all breathe easier in the valley. Literally.