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I absolutely love this TEDx talk by Rick Steves. And as part of my new years resolutions, I will be heading to South Africa at the end of January. I cannot wait to explore and discover the wonders of that region of the world. You can bet there I will have a plethora of photos coming!
I want to wish everyone a healthy, prosperous and happy New Year! I have made 4 main New year’s resolutions for 2012.
1) Do things that make me happy. [Already got my first car! 2005 Mercedes E320]
2) Learn new topics/fields that interest me. [I spent New Year’s weekend learning all about Supply Chain Management for fun even though it currently has nothing to do with what I do]
3) Eat and live healthier.
4) Spend more time with my family and friends.
I never liked the idea of “giving things up”, but I do enjoy the idea of “doing new things”. And I hope all of your can do something you love and be productive and successful in 2012!
I watched the entire RIM presentation live today. Basically, the brand new “BBX” operating system is a marriage of BB OS 7 and QNX. They strictly talked about the OS and it’s “under the hood” technicalities. No new hardware in particular yet. From what I saw, they have a lot of neat graphical and UI features baked into the OS. However, imo they only seem like fancy things that would drain battery and not something I care too much about in a mobile device.
Their presentation overall was pretty yawning for the most part. I understand it was for devs only too, but they didn’t get too many dev cheers. BBX also has a new BBM Social app thingy…they showed off some Android to BB app converter, but it kept crashing on stage…
Overall, as usual, on paper, new BB’s seem like they should be successful, but they never turn out to be anymore these days. I was really really hoping they’d do something amazing today. Balsillie promised it was a going to “leap-frog” the competition…I personally, did not see an ounce of that at all.