As I'm a sad Apple fanboy it appears they've released some goodies - Video iPod, Slimline iMac with built in iSight and Bluetooth Remote Control, iTunes 6.

On the Video iPod it looks like they've completely ditched the FireWire - seems like a lost opportunity to allow direct to disk recording from FireWire capable video cameras.

Commentary on the new products from Daring Fireball.

The new Zaurus C3100 looks cool - seem to be the only PDA maker still innovating. Then again the market is getting smaller and smaller as people put their old PDA data into their phones.

Joel Spolsky on the perils of Custom Software Development. Build to order appears to be a nasty trap a developer and client can get themselves into - even if it gets off the ground as the client it means you can really only get support from the developer and as the developer you've got to be able to commit resources to keeping this custom code in a working state.

Via BoingBoing - looks like a fascinating book from a Vatican Astronomer. It'd be interesting to see what he has to say with respect to "Is Original Sin something that affects all intelligent beings?" or did humanity ruin the universe for everyone ;-)

I picked up Alastair Reynolds "Redemption Ark". Looking forward to reading it.

Ed Brill points to the Remote Control CEO. I think this would appear to be the hallmark of a mature well run organisation - getting and extracting (semi) real time information on the organisations core business. I'm still amazed someone hasn't come up with something like MRTG for businesses - something that will extract income/expenditure from the finance system and graph it in real time and allow drill down to see where the money is coming in and where its going.

Simple - TextRider is a simple PHP based blog-engine. Uses text files instead of a database back end. Similar to Blosxom.