On our way to the camp site!

Lovely views mother nature has for us today. She's putting on a real
show! Notice how colorful the hills are as they are in full bloom. :)

Top Headlines in Information Technology and Services

Whatever happened in this week's tech news, clearly none of it was as important as what happened with Steve Jobs and Apple.

Mike

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Date: August 25, 2011 7:05:47 AM PDT
To: Michael Paul
Subject: Top Headlines in Information Technology and Services

	Wisdom of the professional crowd The week's most popular news: Information Technology and Services Powered by + Information Technology and Services Steve Jobs: The End Of An Era - techcrunch.com We all know the broad strokes: a boy is born to an graduate student and her Syrian boyfriend. She puts the boy up for adoption. He comes to live with Paul and Clara. Paul is a machinist who moved to San Francisco after WWII. He... 624 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Steve Jobs & The Sound of Silence - gigaom.com Like many of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, I was having a fantastic day. It is crisp in the shade, warm in the sun. The skies are a magical blue with puffy clouds floating like dreams. And when all seemed to be going well,... 422 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - blogs.wsj.com Although Steve Jobs's tenure as Apple CEO will be remembered for ushering in fundamental changes in the way people interact with technology, he is also known for his salesmanship and his ability to turn a phrase. 728 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple - finance.yahoo.com CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has... 327 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Password joke is Fringe funniest - bbc.co.uk Up-and-coming comedian Nick Helm wins an award for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. 174 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Better. Faster. The New LinkedIn Mobile App for iPhone and Android. Don't want to receive email notifications? LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

Lunch time by the creek. So peaceful and quiet.

Hiking in Tilden Park

The Kitty Kat Chronicles: Day 973

Day 973: laid upside-down in a planter for three hours. The shade is
most enjoyable underneath my lemon tree... but the dirt, though soft,
browns my white fur. No matter, I have brown fur to match.

This is why media companies FAIL

CNN just updated its iPhone app to allow me to watch the real CNN
live. What a great feature! Unfortunately, you have to be a subscriber
to certain services in order to see the feed.

Well! I just so happen to subscribe to U-Verse for Internet, so I
popped in my credentials and off I went.

Or not. I suspect it's because I am signed up for an Internet only
package (no TV services)...

Curse you media gluttons. Oh well, I guess I I've got better things to
do than watch CNN whilst sitting on the toilet.

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Ready for Harry Potter!

Looking forward to the show!

A beautiful day for a wiffleball game!

Half Moon Bay 360 panorama

You've got to be kidding me... Summertime, and the living is easy.

Sunset in the park

:( just in time for iPhone 5, I guess... Gonna get a paper cut if I keep using this thing ;)

Le sigh.

Welcome to Kyburz... Now Leaving Kyburz.

Hiking among the Vikings! Yes, it's even more beautiful in person.

Near Vikingsholm Castle. Tour is worth the money, too, if you read all
the extra guides. Only $8!

To cool not to share with the entire world: keyboard on a shoe

Jesus may have walked on water (or not, I mean come on now!), but we
walk on keys! Way cooler than water.

Gilt Groupe spams Chromebook customers with Jetsetter emails

A few days ago, I received an email from the Chromebook team at Google offering me a special sneak peak at the Samsung Chromebook, offered through Gilt Groupe--curiously, I had never heard of Gilt before and wondered why Google didn't simply sell this product themselves, as they did with their G1.

So, as any tech-obsessed geek would, I decided to check out the link, which required my email address in order to view. I at first attempted to skirt around giving my email address, but found that indeed, I could not view the offer. So, I gave in. I gave them my email... and wouldn't you know it, not a day later, I've got some message in my Inbox from a company called Jetsetter.

I get a lot of misdirected emails--people signing up for things and using the wrong email, people sending email to friends and family (those are always interesting) ... so much so that I have a "canned response" in gmail which is a one-click wonder that says:

Hi,

You emailed [my email address] but I'm not the person you're looking for. Just thought you'd like to know.

Mike

So of course, I thought this was another one of those deals and so I proceeded to reset this person's password and see if I could track down any personal information about this user and inform him of his error. As it turns out, that user was me. Only I never signed up for Jetsetter.

While on the Jetsetter website, I noticed a tab at the top that said "Gilt."

"No way," I thought. So I clicked it and sure enough it took me back to Gilt, where I put two and two together: Jetsetter was a part of Gilt. Messages on Google Groups confirm this, and people are pissed.

So far, I've only received a couple emails from Gilt and Jetsetter, but whoever at Google decided to go with Gilt should be held to the fire for this one--totally irresponsible, especially since they've been able to sell their G1 in their own store. Why not the Chromebook, too? Did they not know that this would happen? Did Gilt simply drop the ball? What the hell happened here?

Readers: Did you get spammed? How many times? How does this affect your trust in Google, and how does this affect your trust in Gilt--that is, if you ever trusted them in the first place?

It's a wonderful day for pie!

...from the Family Guy. :-)

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Spider catching an insect

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Very cool system. The spider builds the web, waits, captures the
insect, and resets its position while it waits for the next meal.

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This dog is smokin! (kinda. Ur doin it wrong!)

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Mama Mia! (Pasta sauce!)

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