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The last few weeks of “theshow” have been terrific! Thanks zefrank! My favorites include “earth sandwich” (5/16/2006) and “rules for the king of comments” (5/22/2006).

I received this email a few days ago and thought it was appropriate to post. I give credit to the unknown author…

Dear President Bush:

I’m about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I
would like to ask you to assist me. I’m going to walk across the border from
the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can
help with this. I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports,
immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way
you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox,
that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the
following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.

2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need,
whether I use them or not.

3. All government forms need to be printed in English.

4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.

5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.

6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag
pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.

7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.

8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to
government services.

9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won’t make any effort to
learn local traffic laws.

10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from
Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak
English.

11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my
car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any
complaints or negative comments from the locals.

12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don’t
enforce any labor laws or tax laws.

13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never
say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the
economy.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for
all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox
won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. However, if he gives
you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

I’ve been doing some listening and reading from the mac community on their take of the new mac boot software from Apple. For those of you still living in a cave, Boot Camp is the new (beta) software from Apple that allows any of their new Intel systems to dual boot Windows XP along side OS X.

The buzz seems to be focused on whether Apple is considering a move to the (dark side) Windows OS. I don’t think this is the case at all. In fact, I think they are doing this for two reasons. 1 – It will allow a portion of the market gain the rewards of OS X while still being compliant if their company requires a windows system. 2 – Others will realize that Windows is inferior (overhead, performance, interface and most importantly security) by being able to compare the WinOS on their mac hardware. It’s only a matter of time before many Dual-Boot Users realize the risk they are putting themselves in by running WinOS. Sure OS X could get a virus, but everyone agrees that is far less likely than on a Windows system.

My opinion (for whatever it’s worth) is that Apple is looking to sell even more of its product. Mac Boot will help in a number of ways – attracting the dual boot power user and restablishing that OS X is a better OS with the casual win xp professional.

Now my only fear is that one of the next releases from Apple will be iLife for Windows. If that happens – start to worry. 🙂

Google announced their new “finance” site this week. It’s very simple with a nice stock chart view that you can drag. It’s clean and works nicely to update the relevant news. I also like how it aggregates competitors and executive board member data. Check it out at http://finance.google.com.

I’m listening to TWIT and getting the scoop. They are confirming that some industrious individuals (narf2006 and blanka) have loaded a working version of Windows XP on a Mac Mini computer. It sounds like a complex process, but they were able to do it. The contest site has the bootloader. Story at pcworld.

In other news, yet another delay in Microsoft Vista OS (story at cnn / pcworld story). Not that I really care, but I do find it a bit humorous how the delays just keep coming in. Maybe Microsoft will make up for it with their rumored new game / media device (to compete with PSP).

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