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Well, had a bit of a hard slog the last little while, so just reminding myself of a few important things. Great advice and a fantastic speech from The Steve.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. And don’t settle.

From former colleague, Corey: post on the third approach to attracting the best talent you possibly can.

He’s got a point. It certainly is the number one thing that’s driven me to work at the places I’ve worked at. Those I’ve enjoyed the most, sweated the most for, and contributed the greatest to…

Oh, and I should mention, Core tells me they’re hiring , and well, if he’s working there, you do get to deal with atomic monster wrangler number one, which is kinda cool (not to mention, their obvious lack of criminal record background checks… ;-) ).

Absolutely cool, Tarentino-esque short about… Tarantino. Even in Brazilian, totally reads like one of his scripts. An excellent little homage to the master… Tarantino’s Mind:

I don’t think there is anything Joss Whedon has ever done that I haven’t liked; Buffy, Angel, and the brilliant, yet sadly gone-before-its-time by Fox Firefly have given me an appreciation of this guy’s writing (hell, I even like the “Grr! Argh!” of the mutant enemy animation at the end of all his shows.).

He works the web like few others do, regularly hangs out in fan forums and plugs into his reader and viewership like few others.

If only it were socially acceptable for an adult of my age without children to watch Sesame Street more often. This is great. Subversive, even.

I can’t tell you how much I love this thing for how beautiful it’s for its simplicity, brilliance and sheer joy. Dancing Matt seriously makes me happy.

It’s even better to watch this in hidef actually. So great.

One of the consequences of the macbook dying was that I had to cast around for another laptop fast to work off of. Luckily, we happened to have a Lenovo X300 laptop in we were testing with the (pretty amazing actually) 64GB solid state drive it has.

Not being a windows fan, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on it. Here’s my impressions.

First off, the laptop is light and fast and really well thought out. As a response to the macbook air, it’s an excellent one and at least from my perspective there is no gap between the functionality of the two. In fact, I’d have to say that the IBM actually goes one further having the DVD built into such a small frame and a full range of ports.

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Well, couple of bumps getting it out the front door, as well as having to deal with a killer 6am launch time to coordinate the global media strategy, but the mighty mighty AI web team managed in the wee hours of the morning and well in time for the first of or media blitz interviews with CNN.

Back in the day when I first got to Uni, the plan was to be an astrophysicist. I saw NASA as a viable career choice. Academia wasn’t enough like Star Trek that it could hold me long, but I still get a vicarious thrill from watching space exploration and dreaming of alien worlds to explore one day.

The Phoenix Lander is just getting to Mars today and starting its descent. But the red planet has managed to take out as many probes as have made it to the surface of the planet, so the outcome is far from certain.

Hard to watch but important to see.