My doctor put me on a new (expensive) kind of a drug this week. This is my last chance of getting healthy. If this drug doesn’t work either, I am done trying to fight my painful peptic health problem (scientists still have no clue what it exactly is, although there are theories). This is my last chance, as we are running out of medical options. If it won’t work either, I think it takes having children out of the equation.

Tracker is the new favorite indexed search engine for Gnome, while Beagle seems to have fallen behind in development speed lately. Especially after Ubuntu chose Tracker over Beagle, I think that was the final straw. I got to say that Tracker feels “lighter” than Beagle in usage, even if it’s not as sophisticated as Beagle yet in the kind of searches it does.

One thing that I don’t like on Tracker is that while I can use the up and down arrow keys to select different result items, I can’t use the left and right arrow keys to move between the results and category views…

Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple Inc. has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned.

IMO, any PowerPC Mac that’s below 1.2 Ghz is unusable with the web. Which why I am forced to have JS and Flash completely disabled on my 867 Mhz G4 Powerbook — otherwise it’s useless. Maybe Apple didn’t want people to have this kind of experience with their Macs and so they decided to not support Leopard with the 800 Mhz systems. On the other hand, I get this slowness with Tiger too, so I don’t think that this was the driving force behind the decision. More over, I heard of people running Leopard on much slower Macs and it worked fine.

Taking all these points into account, it makes me believe that Apple simply wants more of your money, and doesn’t want to spend the engineering time to optimize further Leopard for PowerPCs — let alone asking Adobe to optimize their damned Flash 9 PPC port which brings my Mac to its knees and stops registering clicks after a few seconds (no matter what browser I use).

We went to Frys yesterday and we saw that new Sony TV with 120 Hz support. Bad for video games, but good for movie lovers. Which makes it a great TV for me, and a bad one for JBQ. I also loved the picture/color adjustments that it comes with. Dunno what we will end up buying in 2-3 years time or when our current one dies.

JBQ spent all day on the PS3 — for a change over working 24 hours a day. He downloaded lots of game demos (and Comcast will probably cut us off for too much bandwidth consumption) and the PS3’s drive is already 1/3 full. What the hell do they put in these demos and they make them so big?

JBQ also bought 3-4 of these $7 games for the PS3, like Loccoroco and Flow. Trippy…

How romantic is that? JBQ woke me up this morning (our 7th wedding anniversary) and had breakfast setup: croissants, jam and orange juice…

Here’s an interesting tidbit for you. While we knew each other via the internet for over 8 months, JBQ proposed to me on the 9th day that we were *physically* together and not on different sides of the ocean(s).

Update: We had a great dinner at an Indian restaurant tonight. I had my usual favorite, “lamb biryani“.

I published two more interviews today, one at TuxTops, an interview with Drist’s guitarist Brian da Motta (he rocks!), and with Sony Vegas’ very own Dave C. Hill at FreshDV. More over, I published an Ubuntu preview at OSNews. A camcorder review is next.

I will also be participating in a radio show from NY soon, for a very non-standard subject. 😉

“A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures – the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding – is now “very unlikely” to be avoided, the world’s leading climate scientists said yesterday” writes Independent.co.uk.

I am getting an unlocked iPhone for a review (although this means that I won’t be getting one next month, as it’s an expensive piece). I am not all too hot about it, as my main cell account has no unlimited data plan, which it would mean that I won’t be able to use the phone after the review is done because the iPhone keeps downloading stuff via GPRS on the background (I usually use a special SIM for my reviews that has a data plan). More over, I do expect Apple to find a way and lock these phones back eventually so it’s time will be limited. Cat and mouse.

This article in Feb 2000 was the beginning of my relationship with JBQ.

We fought in the forums about the nVidia TNT2 on both BeNews and BeGroovy of the time, then we fought via email the next day. A part of my first email to him:

“I strongly disagree with your remark on BeNews’ comments section about the fill rate on TNT2 and GeForce. […] I am not happy with this attitude!”
etc etc.

Thankfully, JBQ replied. As angrily as I did. And then we took our anger and shouting over on IRC so we could have real-time shouting. When we were done with it, we decided to discuss other stuff.

And our love blossomed. 🙂

It’s the 6th anniversary of our wedding this Saturday.

“Betty Perry is charged with resisting arrest and failing to maintain her landscaping, both misdemeanors” writes CNN.

Wait a second. Why the hell is it a misdemeanor to not water your lawn? If it’s YOUR lawn, why the hell the city council cares about it? What kind of a law this is? That’s the kind of law that it would never fly (or get voted in the first place) in Greece.

And then, an American told me once that ancient Spartans were “barbaric” for imposing a maximum beard size to men.

Nice comments on Digg about it:

“It’s bad enough people have to pay taxes to keep their homes, but mow the lawn. This is fucking police state. They should make it official and just declare marshal law.”