I don’t intentionally wait until Monday to post these on long weekends, but that’s what always seems to happen! Anyway, here are my weekly notes for this Easter long weekend:
- Sharon and I made buttermilk biscuits today and they turned out great! We used a Bobby Flay recipe and then turned them into mini sandwiches. Quite tasty, and the picture looks really good too.
- Here’s an interesting post from Michael Geoghegan that started a big discussion on podcasting this week.
- Dell is planning a follow-up model to their Latitude XT tablet PC, creatively called the XT2.
- I always assumed that Visa was a public company, but evidently not. They raised $17.9 billion this week in the largest U.S. IPO ever.
- Alberta now has the third-highest minimum wage among Canadian provinces. It was raised this week from $8.00 to $8.40.
- I finally made it to Transcend Coffee here in Edmonton this weekend. I’ve been meaning to go for so long. You can read about the trip here.
- Apparently Windows XP SP3 has been delayed. The main reason I want it soon is to reduce the number of updates you have to install after SP2 when doing a clean install.
- The Sirius-XM merger was approved today, and JPMorgan raised its offer for Bear Stearns from $2 per share to $10.
As much as I enjoyed my four day weekend, it’ll be good to get back to something resembling a normal schedule.
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I keep meaning to go to Transcend. It’s only a few blocks from my office, but I’ve never been.
Sharon’s review seems a tad disappointing, but I’d still like to check it out for myself.
If you do go, let me know what you think! Their main floor is actually rather impressive…it looks like a science lab behind the glass wall.
I’m sure I’ll get down there one of these days. I’ll let you know after I’ve been.