It takes less time than a commercial break (almost)

... To assemble a Dell! That's what I've just learned from this article: "...PC assembly time down to less than four minutes..."

Incredible!

Even more amazing is that 30 seconds were wasted every time they put those annoying Intel and Microsoft stickers on the computer!

Maybe we could save $100 off the price if they don't have to do that :P

The market of MP3 player is just as bad as the NL West

... where every team commits one blunder after another!

First, Rio is gone due to lack of QC and marketing. (They made it official last week.)

Second, Apple settled the lawsuit over its poor battery.

Now Creative is shipping worm with its player!

Is it that hard to make a decent player? I wonder.

Good bye UGL

UGL = Undergraduate Library, at University of Texas, my alma mater. This is one of the places in Austin where lots of my fond memories are associated with. (Yes, I met pretty gals there >:)

The university is moving the books out and converting it to a student center this Fall. It will be a place for students to hang out and study.

Well, actually that's what we used to do over there anyway (minus the study part :P) The books were useful to kill time when waiting for the "target" to leave.

I've never knew why it's called undergraduate library 'coz most libraries let undergrad in but I just found out that's not the case in the 50s. Interesting!

Microsoft makes baseball exciting

Aren't they? Here is their patent.

Well, kidding aside, it's not that bad. I guess MLB.com is actually using it now. I'm a subscriber of MLB.TV which streams video of complete or highlights of baseball games. Before I learned of this patent, I thought they must have hired a bunch of low-paid kids to cut (i.e. edit) these video. And I have been wondering how boring that job must be :P Looks like it's more automated than I thought.