The Technorati twitters and ROFLs along

Everybody wanted to see a blood bath... but it seems pretty clear that these two guys are at the beck and call of Walt Mossberg apparently (seems that just a year or two ago at the D conference Jobs and Gates sat at the same dinner table with Mossberg Dining Buddies ). Reading the Engadget coverage it was just a lot of goofiness.

What a load of drivel

VW update & BugOut 61

I went out to Manassas today for the 61st Bugout. It's billed as the largest VW show on the east coast. It was fun to go and see the well loved, and the well restored air cooled VW's.

I'm continuing to tear down my '67 Beetle - and after the show I'm wondering how many VW's have been lost by guys like me taking on a restoration job and failing. I'm still very excited by the prospect - but the number of broken bolts so far is making me wonder what I've gotten myself into.

The shear volume of resources out there for VW restoration in pretty incredible. I've picked up a few catalogs at the show and it is reassuring to find that most of the problems I've identified have an available replacement as a solution.

What hath Todd Wrought?

So, most folks that know me know that I like the Vee Dub's. Somebody here at AOL mentioned that there was a 1967 Beetle listed on Craigslist - and it turned out it was just half a mile from my house. What could it hurt to take a look? Well -- it hurts a bit. Drove it home the next day.

So the other day I was telling the wife that I needed a hobby. She of course said - yes I do. (clearly I interfere with what she's rather be doing I guess).

This car certainly does need work. It's a 40 year old car - and true to Beetle form - the first order of business will be the floor pans -- which are rusted out under the battery tray.

Belated Happy Easter

This past Easter -- the kids finally grew into the neat-o outfits that I bought on my first trip to Bangalore - My wife wore her first Sari and I wore the Kurta that I picked up in Mysore this last year.

Come on in - the kool aide is fine

So after 15 years of Windows software development - I've decided to see how the other guys live. I'm now working in the Macintosh Software Engineering group here at AOL. Looks like we're serious (again) at making great Macintosh software.

The case for Macintosh as a programming platform is pretty strong. It seems that Apple has managed to do what Sun and Microsoft have failed (so far) to do. MacOS includes a very rich set of Class Libraries. --- It's where Microsoft wanted to take .NET (but the forgot to deploy it with Windows XP at release -- and heck, they pretty much forgot to give it a reasonable UI framework to go with it). It's where Sun wanted to take Java - but they didn't control an installed base either.

Enjoy the Kool Aide --- be sure to check in on me after the upcoming WWDC where I'll be digging in deeper.