Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

Scott Hanselman writes:

My wife and I have been married going on eight years. We try to go to Africa every two years as she’s from Zimbabwe originally… I remember when we went to Zim for the first time in 2001… The exchange rate was US$1 to Z$55, and it was about Z$50 to ride in a combi (minibus/taxi)…
Today, whatever Zim currency you have in your pocket loses value of Z$70 a minute just sitting there…
If these numbers seem overwhelming, they are. Recently the new Z$50 million dollar note came out, and it will by three loaves of bread (assuming you can find bread) a Z$16M each.

Wow! I had no idea Zimbabwe’s economy was this bad.

First Microsoft sends another letter to Yahoo giving them three weeks to start talking or else…, and now Yahoo responds. This is getting good!

Long Zheng blogs about a leaked new Windows Vista Ultimate Extras sound scheme.

P.S. In case you are wondering this is one April Fool’s joke that I swallowed hook, line, and fishing pole. Did you get tricked into believing any?

The folks over at Wordpress have done a spectacular job in the Wordpress 2.5 release. There are so many new and improved features of Wordpress 2.5 that I’m just going to tell you to read the official blog posts and update your blog. Enjoy!

Uh-oh. It looks Vista didn’t win the PWN to OWN contest after all. Although in reality it was a cross platform flaw in Adobe Flash that was exploited. Get a Mac Vista Ubuntu.