Wordpress finally released a app for posting to their blogs from the iPhone or iPod touch. This is my first test using this feature.

1917 – 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_day

Was a pretty good show.  One thing that the CanITPro guys did a good job of this year was the demos on the new technologies (Hyper-V is going to change the way people use computers, I am sure of that).

The goody bag was pretty good too.  Full copies of WinSvr2008 (with 2 licenses for virtualizing), Visual Basic 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Vista (not sure what version, coming via snailmail).

Attending the MS launch tomorrow in Calgary.  Hope to have some pics of the event.

Gotta love a politician who takes advantage of technology.  The "Hillary", who is trailing Obama in every way possible, offered Obama the VP if she won the democratic ticket.  How does he respond?  Through his twitter feed of course:

In Columbus,MS & wondering how somebody who’s in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who’s in first place.

too funny.

Yep, there were MP3 players before the iPod, the first of which would hold a massive 8 songs.

The MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea’s Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998.

The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. It measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm. It connected to an old-style parallel port on the host PC from which songs could be copied to the player. There was a tiny LCD on the front to give an indication as to what you were listening to.

The device made its debut at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. It was a prototype, but Saehan must have garnered enough interest to put the player into mass production, which it did in May 1998 before going on sale in the US and Europe through importers in the summer.

In the US, local supplier Eiger Labs wanted $250 for the F10, though the price fell to $200 the following year prompted by the release of the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300, which was priced at $200.

What do you get today for $250?  The iPod Classic 80GB goes for $259, and will hold up to 20,000 songs.  My how times change….

Damn, the old school poster looks GREAT!!!!

MS has finally responded to the end of the Hi Def wars:

As a result of recent decisions made by Toshiba, Hollywood studios, and retailers, Microsoft plans to withdraw from HD DVD.  Xbox will no longer manufacture new HD DVD players for the Xbox 360, but we will continue to provide standard product and warranty support for all Xbox 360 HD DVD Players in the market.  As we stated earlier, we do not believe this decision will have any material impact on the Xbox 360 platform or our position in the marketplace.  HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room, along with playback of the DVD movies they already own.

Link

Finally, no more emailing stuff to one of my gmail accounts for online storage.  Anyone try it out?  What are you thoughts?

EDIT: Paul Thurrott has a great review of the features here.