Ipods, Zune and Smart Cars

As some of you realize I have been a bit thwarted on the Canadian Bullet front. I am working on getting around the glitches which made this potentially useful service something of a server killer. Live and learn.

However, in the course of working out how to do this I have a few new aggregators which you may enjoy.

If you are looking for iPod news you can go to my iPod news blog. Interestingly, engadget reports that iPod is looking at a larger screen, balck on white, high contrast ebook reading capacity on a larger screen…Hmmm. Combine that with wifi and you’re beginning to look at the end of dead tree newspapers.

If you are looking for information about SmartCars you can find up to the minute SmartCar news here. Victoria is Canada’s SmartCar capital with hundreds on the road out of a relatively small vehicle population. Amazingly the SmartCar is not widely available in the US because of emissions regulations which don’t take into account actual mileage. Sigh.

And if you are intrigued as I am about what Microsoft is touting as the iPod killer you can find Zune news at my Zune news blog. At the moment I have no idea what MS is actually up to but it did let Billboard magazine in on the fact the new Zune machine will be wifi enabled.

Written by jay on July 24th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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NATO v UN

Defense Minister Amir Peretz also said Sunday after meeting Steinmeier that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the Lebanese border to keep Hizbullah away from the border.

“Israel’s goal is to see the Lebanese army deployed along the border with Israel, but we understand that we are talking about a weak army and that, in the interim, Israel will have to accept a multinational force,” he said.
jerusalem post

Sensible of the Israelis. NATO has real soldiers, a real chain of command and a real capacity to enfforce the peace. Watch for the lefties to suggest that only the UN has legitimacy in this instance. Why? Because Hezbollah has been operating under UN cover for six years. The UNIFIL contingent has stopped not a single rocket launch or disarmed a single terrorist. In fact, the UN, at the highest levels has covered up Hezbollah kidnappings.

NATO is a good option. I wonder where the French would be with that…France (as far as I remember) quite the military side of NATO some time ago.

Captain Ed has similar thoughts here.

Written by jay on July 24th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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