“The Sims 3” is coming.

Electronic Arts is about to release a new version of one of my favorite computer games for Windows computers.

Seasons Greetings!

Happy Holidays and best wishes for a happy new year!

To track Santa on Christmas Eve, see NORAD’s web site at http://www.noradsanta.org.  In addition to English, several other languages are supported such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese.

Every year, NORAD gets fancier and fancier.  This year, they are doing tracking in 3D, and for those who don’t want to or can’t go the NORAD web site, it appears they are offering iGoogle gadgets and tracking by cell phone.  See http://www.noradsanta.org for details.

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Sony Wins a Format War

Here’s a belated Happy New Year!

We’re now well into 2008 and there’s been lots of activity in technology news this year, especially with regards to the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray “format war.”

Time Goes By Fast

The older I get, the faster time seems to go by. I meant to do a summary of my experiences watching that special Star Trek “Menagerie” showing at a movie theater last month, but didn’t get around to doing it. So here’s a quick summary.

Star Trek Special Event; Microsoft writes standards?

This week, CBS has arranged for special showings of an episode of the original Star Trek at movie theaters in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia to try to convince people to buy the new DVD sets with the remastered version of the original Star Trek TV series. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s HD Photo format is now a standard, and the OOXML format in Office 2007 may become one too.

Microsoft News

In the news recently, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to fix education and enable consumers to control access to their health data. Meanwhile, Microsoft claims that others are stealing Microsoft’s intellectual property.

Transformers on DVD – Oct. 16, 2007

Ok, so yes, I know. My web site is getting stale, even the ads on the site are probably stale. Still hoping to find some time to update it. What is big news though is that the 2007 “Transformers” movie is about to go on sale on DVD. Yes, the one that was supposed to be in theaters starting July 4, 2007 but the hype was so good they moved up the date to July 2.

Another Recall; SCO Loses

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced yesterday that Toshiba has recalled another 1,400 Sony laptop batteries. Link to article. In other news, SCO has lost a lawsuit regarding Linux.

laptop battery recalls; movies score big

The Sony laptop battery recall saga continues. CNET reports that Toshiba has recalled more batteries made by Sony in late 2005. Click here for CNET’s article.

In the last two weeks two movies have earned lots of lots of money at the box office. Both “Transformers” and “Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix” earned about $70 million or so their first week and broke various box office records. I’ve seen “Transformers” and I think it’s worth seeing. It’s very good. The day I saw it at the theater I was at, there was at least one family clapping their hands at the end of the movie. People I’ve talked to also agree that it’s very good.