I did NOT see this coming: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

It's only been seven months since Apple launched Mac OS 10.7 Lion, but the company isn't sitting still: it just announced the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, a tweaked and enhanced new version of the operating system that includes major new features like Notification Center, AirPlay mirroring, and iMessage. Yes, those are all headline iOS features as well; Mountain Lion continues Apple's cycle of using the iPhone and iPad to influence Mac development and vice versa.

I first read the news in John Gruber's www.daringfireball.net. He's a blogger and as I was reading through it, I thought this is just one of those posts where maybe at the end he'd say that he is just dreaming this stuff. Or something like that.

But then I saw this post in The Verge and that's when I knew it to be true. I definitely did NOT see this coming!

Exciting update, nonetheless.

Cashing in on Valentine's Day (and other unofficial holidays) - A Tuesday Note

I wanted to make sure that this piece is sent in the evening (PH time) of Valentine's Day so that those who are celebrating Cupid's official unofficial day would have lesser chances of reading this. Thus they would not be offended. Those in the US who are just about waking up to paper hearts, flowers, chocolates and other Valentine's Day gimmicks, I'd like to think that you have a more open mind.

This piece isn't about directly making money and enterprising or commercializing Cupid's Day. No one can deny though the reality that this "holiday" has turned out to be one big cash cow. Prices of bouquets of roses would jump to about 100% to 250% of the regular price. The same goes for hotel and resort reservations. Sure, that's the law of supply and demand.

But when you see the restaurants, malls and hotels crowded on this day, you know there's something wrong going on. I think it has become way too commercialized. Whatever happened to... OK, I'm not in a position to lecture about you-know-what.

This is really about what you can do, as a team leader, people manager or operations head, to "cash in" on this day and take advantage of it for the good of your organization or company.

Cupcakes

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"It does not contain any little ladies.."

Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali earlier claimed before the Senate impeachment court that an anonymous lady handed over to him Corona's PSBank records, which showed the chief magistrate having $700,000 in deposits.

The prosecution attached the documents in a request before the impeachment court to subpoena Corona’s bank records.

Senate President and presiding judge Juan Ponce Enrile asked Tiongson whether the documents were forged, to which she answered yes.

Tiongson also told Enrile that PSBank records are generated by the bank’s computers and have bar codes printed on the pages.

Umali told the impeachment court that a “small lady” gave him an envelope with the banks records outside the Senate building last week.

But a report by the Senate sergeant-at-arms noted that closed circuit television recordings showed no "small lady," Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente Sotto III on Monday said.

"It does not contain any little ladies giving anything to Representative Umali, from the time he arrived at one o’clock up to the time that he boarded his vehicle," according to the majority floor leader.

You gotta love these senate hearings.

Sunday night lowdown - 12 km in 1:22:47 #sm2sm

My right knee hurts when I walk. The joint that connects my right leg to my hip also feels odd. My lower back feels a little stiff after waking up from my afternoon nap. Generally, I can hear all the muscles in my body sarcastically say, "Ppip, good job. Really. Good job."

According to my Nike + iPod app, my running pace was at 0:06:49 per kilometer. I don't know if that's good enough or what but, hell, to me that's friggin' awesome. It was also raining the whole time so we were all soaking in the rain. I'd like to think that it helped increase the runners' stamina since our body temperatures were cooler than the usual but it was a bit uncomfortable running with every squishy step on the road.

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Ppip Cimafranca

I look forward to the day when all I need to make things happen is a mobile device, the cloud, some rock music and a foul mouth.