Well, whether I’m feeling better or not, I’m back into the thick of the work-week now. Yesterday I got a little work done, plus all the weekly administrivia I usually deal with on Mondays, but it was still a definitely sub-standard day. Today, I’ve got client meetings, and lunch meetings through the rest of the week (oops, one just cancelled). The ear infection may be starting to clear up, but I’ve still got one ear that’s plugged up. Regardless, I’ve got to have a good week, since next Monday begins a eight-game Saints home-stand, and I need to get a little ahead on work this week.
- Tired of having to continually fiddle with the volume knob when you’re playing things back from your iPod because the Sound Check function built into iTunes doesn’t really work? This cool piece of Mac software: iVolume adjust the volume levels of the songs in iTunes, and it appears to actually work.
- It’s time for Intel’s Big Shift After Hitting Technical Wall. Basically, they’ve increased density so much in their CPUs that they can’t get rid of the heat that’s generated now, so they’re switching to a dual-core model that should run cooler. It’s a problem that people knew were coming, but Intel kept plowing ahead making hotter and hotter chips, while competitors (like IBM’s G5 chip that comes in new Macs) have concentrated on keeping the heat down while moving to the same feature size. I don’t think this is a critical problem for Intel, but it’s definitely a bump in the road. [nyt]
- Have you heard there’s Fraud in Online Job Listings? Shock! Horrors! People just don’t seem to realize that if something sounds too good to be true (like getting 20% for
payment processing
for anoverseas merchant
), it probably is. [nyt] - Here it is, Life explained, courtesy of VoWe. It does explain a lot. [vowe]