Who knew that a member of the red states might be an iPod user. Well, Christopher Morris’ excellent black and white photo essay of the private life of our fearless leader (cough) shows that, in fact, said President likes to exercise with his iPod. Obviously, this specific photo could be of anyone holding the iPod, but take a look at the entire picture story, and you’ll see. I wish we could make out what he was listening to in this photo, however. George has taken advantage of what has to be a very large gadget budget. MacDailyNews reports that he’s sporting a pair of those high-end Etymotic Research ER-6i Isolator earphones and that he’s listening to Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl (from Moondance). Too bad I don’t care for any of his other choices, but that’s a killer album. Sigh.
That makes both top members of the executive brance iPod users. The Washington Post reported that Dick Cheney’s kids bought him an iPod for Christmas in 2003. This news sparked an ugly squabble on MacDailyNews boards. Can’t we all just get along?
Interesting bit of info from CES. Shuttle, makers of super-small form factor PCs, showed off a set-top-box form factor Windows XP Media Center Edition box. It’s super slim (like half the height of the AlienWare DHS), so I’ll reserve comment until more specs come to light. Interesting, though.
For those of you who hadn’t heard, Bill Gates CES keynote was marred by three crash/errors last Wednesday. Now, Sean Alexander, product manager for Windows Media Center edition, has posted his behind the scenes post-mortem on what actually happened on his blog, Addicted to Digital Media. Interesting read, for sure. If it had been my call, I would never have tried to run both Sean’s demo as well as the Conan/Bill demo off a single machine far across the stage. Nobody expects real-world in these demos, so the notion that it would be best to play off a single machine with all kinds of enhancements like a USB booster just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anyway, Sean is a great guy (I know him from some dev work I’ve done with MCE), so kudos to him for his open report on the incident.
Link to Sean’s blog here. He’s been slashdotted, so it may be tough to get to it at times.
The URL speaks for itself. This website let’s you stay on top of all things political. Specifically, it uses Technorati to show which politicians are rising and falling in the blogosphere-a phenomenon that has become increasingly relevant with politics and journalism.
