July 21, 2003

Various things...none worthy of a full article

Ferrari GT 360

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So my colleague recently bought a Ferrari GT 360 Modena. I'll spare you all the trite and typical carrying on about it's insane performance and how truly wicked and evil it looks up close. It's everything you read in magazines, without hyperbole. All I'll mention are my two observations...

  • The rear engine (covered in a stylish glass hood) becomes enormously hot. Not much care is taken to hide this brutal powerplant.
  • I went for a short ride in it. (Really short... from my office building to the Oriental Hotel, about two buildings away). What I most noticed was that as we pulled outside the parking garage, everyone looked. I mean everyone . Not just the young guys. EVERYONE. Young, old, man, women, child. This car has an amazing presence.


    Magellan

    I'll bring out that old blog chestnut again. Yyes, it's, "I hate my Garmin GPS and would like to replace it." So today I investigated Magellan GPSs, Garmin's principal competition in the consumer GPS market. There seem to be three different models that I would consider... The Sportrak, the Meridian Platinum, and the
    Meridian Color.

    When I read the reviews on Amazon, though, it was like Deja Vous. Basically all the same complaints... crappy mapping software, crappy bios that doesn't manage memory very well (for example multiple maps from different sets cannot occupy the flash memory together), enormously slow map uploads. Throw in ergonomic complaints, impossible legibility w/o backlighting, and battery-sucking, and these units sound as bad (maybe worse?) than the Garmin units. Good grief.


    Zempt

    Zempt will be a good client for MoveableType. I have used it a bit already and I think I'd prefer to use it when possible. However, I'm only going to once it knows how to handle images. Currently you cannot upload images with it. Furthermore, if you embed img tags in your blog, the preview pane is spoiled. Thus I cannot even upload an image through some non-Zempt mechanism and include that image in the blog entry I'm writing w/ Zempt.

    Since it's only version 0.3, I am sure this will all get sorted out. Let's hope that occurs before we goto Australia.

    Posted by Nils Blutig at July 21, 2003 11:49 PM | TrackBack