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Guess I am going out for a while - Saturday night. I'll hit a few of the regular spots.

Still have The Killers "Somebody Told Me" stuck in my head. I didn't even know whose song it was until Jen told me last week.

Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
...

Did some shopping at The Gap and Macy's this afternoon, while I was talking a walk. Got pizza on the way back home, and ate it watching an awful movie, BloodRayne. Despite Loken's always eye-pleasing presence, and a lot of big name actors (Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane), the movie is properly featured on IMBD's "Bottom 100" movies of all time.

It was bound to happen. As a follow up to a previous article I posted, Audi's continued success with TDI technology now includes the first ever Le Mans 24 hours win with a diesel-powered car. The impressive R10, with a silent 650 hp V12 diesel engine took the victory a couple of weeks ago.

The engine produces 811 lb-ft, or 1,100 N-m of torque. Yes, that is Newtons per Meter in SI units (the correct units)

You can read about it on the BBC site and Serious Wheels. And more about the wonderful R10 in Wikipedia, of course, where else.

Interesting notes from a trade-show panel that featured ex-Apple and ex-Microsoft software designers, discussing how Mac OS X and Vista came into existence. Can’t remember ever seeing Apple and Microsoft engineers on a single panel, their comments are very interesting. As you’ve probably always suspected, Apple creates software with the design first; Microsoft begins with the engineering.

A couple interesting comments:

"Do people read everything in the dialogs & screens? Is that why Windows is wordier? In many cases the dialog should have never have come up, an engineer couldn't make a decision and put the burden to do so on the user."

and

"To what extent did engineering vs. design drive development? Apple: definitely driven by design. Engineers would ask "please don't show this to Steve" - Jobs compared pixel to pixel from Director prototype to OSX prototype, if it wasn’t right it had to be fixed

Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn