I find that I am much more alert and invigorated after cycling to work. Most work places have showers these days. Instead of showering at home, I showered at work in the morning. It worked great.

Cycling is bar far the best way to commute. In dense traffic situations, its as fast or faster than driving and way faster than taking transit. Here is an informal race to demonstrate the point: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Cyclist+beats+motorist+race+work+downtown/1533758/story.html And it makes double use of your time. You get exercise while commuting to work. And it saves money. A lot of it. $460 per month in parking fees alone in the example above.

I have a Mac 128 with an Apple Imagewriter, one of the first ones where they used a regular DB25 cable instead of the Appletalk cable. I can't believe its 25 years old. I bought it in 1990 for the printer. I think the lady said she paid $4500 for it. At the time I told her that could buy her a very nice '386

Oil closed at ~$36/bbl today. The electric car is dead. Again. Gasoline is about $1.50 per gallon. Consumers are broke. Nobody wants to buy an electric car these days. Its funny how we think that electric cars would save Detroit. Detroit isn't very tech savy. They are savy at building big hulking SUVs and pickup trucks. They can't compete in the small car market. How will they ever compete in the electric car market. Do we really think that US made batteries, managed by the likes of Rick Wagner (sp?) and assembled by Joe Detroit Autoworker at a cost of $75/hour are going to be competitive with batteries built in China ? Its funny how just a couple years ago we had billions and billions of dollars for home mortgages. Now we have to go to the government to finance something that our future may depend on.

Borland has released code for several products. They stopped making C++ Builder a few years ago. I wish they would release that code to open source. Eclipse needs a visual editor for C++. They have one for Java, but not for C++. It could work with the QT libraries.