Entries from April 2007 ↓

So when I’m not compiling a list of things I’d like to say to Spanky in Korean, I sometimes find myself browsing the internets for interesting and odd web sites and products.

For example, how about this ebay Member profile? COOL LAVA LAMP—p.s. noticed a condom inside. Now wondering, what’s the “LAVA”? uh… A+ still . . . . the kidney doesn’t seem to be working yet. Hmmm… I should really reactivate my ebay account…

If you aren’t all that into spending money and perhaps are looking to learn yourself something, why not set your start page to a random page on wikipedia? I can’t count the hours I’ve whiled away at work just clicking that link, over and over again. “ooh, a Timeline of South African history!”

Have a friend with a snot-filled toddler? Well if you’re a true friend, you’ll immediately order the Nosefrida Nasal Aspirator Child-friendly mucus removal Hell, I might treat myself; what else is there to do on the bus?

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I had my third Hangul class tonight. Damn it’s hard. I have a new perspective on people who learn English. They’re much smarter than me.

The class is actually going really well though I still haven’t learned to say “My manager smells like a goat…” Maybe next week.

The class is small but the people and teacher are nice. We’re planning on taking a week off at the end of the class and then starting on part 2 right away and we’re all in.

So it wrapped up a bit early which was a blessing as we were doing double consonants and they are simply brutal as the pronunciation changes depending on position but I digress…

I know I’m the only one who even knows that the Canucks are playing tonight. I tried to get home as fast as I could but I always walk to the bus stop with this girl and chat until her bus comes. She’s a fellow geek and we get along well and besides Seymour is sketchy at the best of times so I don’t really mind.

Robson was eerie; it was a ghost town even for a Monday night. Basically it was just people who don’t care about hockey and cops. Lots of cops…

I managed to get home and caught the last 5:19 of the game. Good to see them win. Guess who won’t be getting any sleep tonight? It’s a freakin’ street party outside which is fine but when the party is over, go home ok? Thanks.

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Apr 12, 2007

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.

While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones.

Well as someone who isn’t in the market for an iPhone, this really sucks. I have $150 burning a hole in my pocket that’s set aside for Leopard. Better to get something stable but it’s pretty disappointing. Mind you, there’s nothing wrong with Tiger but who isn’t itching for the latest and greatest?

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