Our son Tris­tan is grow­ing and grow­ing and grow­ing. So last week­end we’ve bought a new car seat. We had two options Römer or Maxi Cosi. Again we’ve chosen Maxi Cosi. This time the Maxi Cosi Priori XP a car seat for the tod­dler with opti­mal (side)protection, com­fort­able and styl­ish. So up to the next ver­sion. To bad I haven’t bought any Maxi Cosi stocks

We are wait­ing for the upcom­ing update of blog­ging soft­ware, code name Crazy Horse. The Blog Rock­stars of the Web know what I am talk­ing about. The next release of Word­Press ver­sion 2.7 is going to have an inter­face over­haul. The top menu is gone, instead all menu actions will occur from the new side­bar, which is far better struc­tured then the cur­rent avail­able ver­sion. Need­less to say I am really look­ing for­ward to this release! But I am very curi­ous if most of the themes and plu­g­ins will work? I will not imme­di­ately install it, I have to verify if all my plu­g­ins and my theme will work.25-10-2008: Some really nice infor­ma­tion for the­me­cre­ators or people who made their own theme can be found here at justin​tad​lock.com and here at ottode​struct.com

Intro­duc­ing reddit: you can now use reddit to save your favorite arti­cle. At the bottom of each post you’ll find an reddit icon. And remem­ber you reddit here first!

It all started it out with a couple of teaser images by Citroën.

Just a couple of glimpses of the front, side and back

At the 2008 Paris Motor Show…

…Citroën released the GTbyCITROËN

Whoa

Swag­ger

The 3,000-pound two-​seater takes a vir­tual 3.6 sec­onds to get to a vir­tual 62 mph, and that’s with a 646 dig­i­tal ponies boosted by an addi­tional 136 hydrogen-​powered horses.

As for the design (by Polyphony), if you’re won­der­ing what that rear over­hang is about, the phrase you’re look­ing for is “retinal persistence”.

I love con­cept cars, I came a cross this really nice car at Road & Track. Tesla says the Model S will get about 240 miles per charge while still offer­ing “exceptional performance.” Num­bers being bandied about include 0–60 mph in less than 6 sec­onds. The Model S will have a base price of about $60,000 (versus the Roadster’s $109,000 price tag) when it goes on sale in late 2010. Tesla recently hired Franz von Holzhausen as its chief designer; he was for­merly the direc­tor of design for Mazda North Amer­ica. His first project is to put the fin­ish­ing touches on the Model S. Up next The GT by Citroën…

I am cur­rently at Blog08 Rock­stars of the Web event, rock on… More on this after the break [...]25-10-2008: Yes­ter­day was really nice, a lot of tal­ented young people dis­cussed about the future of blog­ging (I am get­ting old). A great rock­band was play­ing live called Love OD. I espe­cially liked the pre­sen­ta­tions of Pete Cash­more and Paul Brad­shaw, it’s always nice to learn some stuff. There were also some dis­ap­point­ing moments: Boris van der Ham (pol­i­tics) and Piet Bakker, a pro­fes­sor at the Hogeschool van Utrecht who really didn’t got it! Our host Patrick de Laive did the con­fer­ence with a whole lot of rock ‘n’ roll flavor. Patrick yo’old Swagger!

Is Apple aban­don­ing FireWire or is it just poor mar­ket­ing? We’ll get to that later. FireWire or IEEE 1394 is a serial bus inter­face for high-​speed com­mu­ni­ca­tions and isochro­nous real-​time data trans­fer, fre­quently used in per­sonal com­put­ers, dig­i­tal video camera’s and data stor­age devices. The inter­face is also known by the brand names of FireWire (Apple Inc.), i.LINK (Sony), and Lynx (Texas Instru­ments). FireWire has replaced Par­al­lel SCSI in many appli­ca­tions, due to lower imple­men­ta­tion costs and a sim­pli­fied, more adapt­able cabling system. IEEE 1394 has been adopted as the High Def­i­n­i­tion Audio-​Video Net­work Alliance (HANA) stan­dard con­nec­tion inter­face for A/V (audio/visual) com­po­nent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and con­trol. FireWire is also avail­able in wire­less, fiber optic, and coax­ial ver­sions using the isochro­nous pro­to­cols.

So why the hell has Apple ditched FireWire in the new Mac­Books? The Mac­Book Pro has a FireWire 800 port. Will these ports also be dumped with the revamped iMac? Is this due to the Intel deal or only in con­sumer machines? Only time will tell! FireWire is far supe­rior to USB in a lot of ways. But with USB 3.0 at the hori­zon, which aims at speeds of 4.8 Gbits/s (600MB/s), FireWire S3200 (which uses the same con­nec­tor as exist­ing FireWire 800 and is fully com­pat­i­ble with exist­ing S400 and S800 devices) will soon be out­dated! One thing is clear it will com­pete with the forth­com­ing USB 3.0. Did the market choose (cheaper) USB 2.0 in favor of FireWire 400 (VHS vs Video2000)? Apple states clearly yes with the release of the new Mac­Books. But if Apple wants to com­pete with USB 3.0 it HAS to include it in con­sumer machines because Intel will surely roll it out like USB 2.0 (no dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion between high-​end or low-​end). USB doesn’ t sup­port Target Disk Mode for man­ag­ing files or cloning sys­tems, as USB 2.0’s archi­tec­ture lacks the capac­ity to sup­port that fea­ture. Con­clu­sion Yes and No, the future isn’t quite clear, for con­sumers USB will prob­a­bly do but for Pro’s Apple prob­a­bly keep FireWire 800 a little while alive.