Bits & Pieces

Bits&Pieces has been added to my daily reads – good fun and crazy stuff.

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Gates is gone

By june this year Bill Gates is quitting his day job at Microsoft to spend his time doing philantropics in his foundation. This was announced in his keynote at the 10th CES. I was expecing Mr. Gates to pull out some groundbreaking technological gadget from the the big hat of Microsoft. That didn’t happen – but Bill Gates said that ‘nothing is holding us back’ in pursuing the technologies of tomorrow.

What surprised me a little was a video produced to show Bills last day at work – and some of his attempts to make a career jump. See it at Microsoft – but ‘m guessing that the video will also hit the video sharing services as it is somewhat funny, has celebrities and indicates that Bill Gates has gone from being a geek to beeing an old rich geek. Update: Gates’ last day on YouTube.

….but I’m still waiting for that gadget!

What’s future gadgets are on your wishlist?

I’d like to see stable wireless transmission of the signal to my monitors.

Learnings from WoW

A norwegian boy tricked an upset moose by ‘feigning death’ – a skill he had acquired by playing WoW. Wired tells more: Boy Survives Moose Attack Thanks To World Of Warcraft.
That’s all good and well – but the moose made a wise choice by attacking a WoW-player. The moose below decided to take on a Counter Striker: