25 posts tagged “twit”

Cute and Funny video of a 3 year old girl explaining the movie Star Wars IV: a new hope.
I heard about the video from Net@Nite Episode 45.

Cable TV channel G4 reviews the Nokia N82 on the Gadget Pron segment.

Jonathan Coultan performs Still Alive on Rock Band along with guest band members Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, and Veronica Belmont. Awesome video!

Chris Pirillo of former TechTV fame and creator of LockerGnome has made the big switch from windoze to Mac. He posts 50 Reasons why he made the move to Mac and states, Once You Go Mac, You Never Go Back.

50 Reasons Why I Left Bill for Steve

http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/14/5...

I love my Xbox 360s, I think Popfly rocks (Silverlight will bring much needed competition to Flash). Plus, I can’t live without Exchange and its server-side rules. I love my Microsoft mouse more than any other mouse in the world. Surface looks totally awesome, too. Microsoft does some amazing things - very amazing things. My choice, however, for a primary desktop operating system is no longer Windows - it’s Mac OS X.

Dvorak was right! Cisco was working on a new OS! As John C. Dvorak mentioned on a recent episode of TWiT Cisco will be releasing a new OS in 2008.

Cisco Creates Entertainment Operating System - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570...

EOS will be a hosted software-as-a-service platform that Cisco will deliver sometime in 2008 to various media companies, said Dan Scheinman, general manager of the Cisco media solutions group. He spoke about the project in a keynote address late Tuesday at Cisco's annual analyst conference, C-Scape 2007, in San Jose.

I just listened to TWiT 123 and heard the news of a man in the UK that was fired for taking sick leave via SMS. The man brought his former company to court for inappropriate firing and won the amount of salary he lost due to the firing. This is very interesting to me since in my company most of the time people use SMS or E-mail to call in sick.

The policy for my job is you can send an SMS to the team leader and/or manager to let them know you're going to be out and they reply to the message to acknowledge they received it and it's ok. If you send an SMS but you don't receive a reply then you can either call them or send another SMS to a different team leader or manager and wait for their reply. Basically just have to confirm that they received your message and that they don't have any important questions about your daily responsibilities that can't wait a day while you're out. So I found it very strange when I heard the news of that man in the UK being fired for this. Then again I work for Nokia, that of course makes mobile devices so that might be one of the reasons that the policy is allowed. To me it's easier to send an SMS to take sick leave than to call and speak to somebody on the phone when I'm not feeling well.

Now this has caught my interest, do you think SMS is a way of communication that should be permitted to take the day off as long as you ensure the message was received? Do any other companies completely frown upon the use of SMS or E-mail to call in sick or is it the other way around that most companies accept the use of SMS or E-mail to take sick leave?

Listened to TWiT 119 on the train commute home from work with the N82.

Listening to TWiT 119 in Portrait view.

Rotate N82 90 degrees the screen automatically rotates to Landscape view.
Now listening to TWiT 119 in Landscape view.

Leo has posted on his Vox blog that for the foreseeable future he will be posting on his own Leoville blog. This is a switch from Vox to hosting his own blog using WordPress. It looks like the change was mostly prompted so that he could have more control over his own blog posts that is very understandable considering how much content Leo puts out. Already there are more Blog entries on his new blog than have been in the last several months on Vox. If this makes more sense for Leo and increases his blog posts it's good news for the Leo fans and TWiT Army.

Where do you get recommendations for new books to read?

I check out the audio book recommendations from TWiT Netcasts and look at them from Audible.
For eBooks I get from MobiPocket and read them on my Nokia N93.
Also in general I read/listen to anything Scott Sigler works on. Scott is a great horror/action author.