WOHOH. TGIF! It looks to be another beautiful day here in Chicago. One nice thing about owning your own company is being able to take your laptops outside, work in the sun with a nice refreshing beverage and enjoy the weather. I think I’ll be doing the same today!! 
ATI allowing developers to use DirectX10 already
ATI Technologies, one of the world’s largest suppliers of graphics processors, has unveiled its first DirectX 10 software development kit that provides programmers examples of DirectX 10 code and samples to allow them to start creating the content using next-gen application programming interface (API). However, the company has not supplied its partners among developers with DirectX 10-compliant hardware.
High priced oil here to stay 
Futures contracts for light, sweet crude, available for delivery within a month, changed hands on the New York Mercantile Exchange well above $72 a barrel, extending a run that has lifted prices by more than $10 in the past month.
Google posts higher revenue — beats expectations
Google’s first-quarter revenue rose nearly 80 percent and, along with an increase in profit, beat analyst expectations as the search giant continued to grow market share, the company said Thursday.
Myspace — actually a good story about how they foiled a school shooting
Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after a message authorities said warned of a gun attack appeared on the Web site MySpace.com.
Seagate 750GB Hard drive.
That’s a LOT of storage. I think I’ll buy one when they hit 1TB. DROOL!!
New software tracks the mood of the blogoshere
Software that tracks mood swings across the ‘blogosphere’ and pinpoints the events behind them could provide more insightful ways to search and analyse the web, researchers say. The software, called MoodViews, was created by Gilad Mishne and colleagues at Amsterdam University, The Netherlands. It tracks about 10 million blogs hosted by the US service LiveJournal.
Google testing expanded search result feature
Treo 700p coming soon?
Bah, I’ll keep my Treo 650 for the time being now that I actually have it working and not rebooting every 2 seconds. It’s been a great phone thus far. I need something way more to justify dropping another $500.
Do you need 6,500 calories a day to survive? This guy does!! (Jealous)
A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day — two and a half times the average intake for an adult male — has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound mark.
Big Brother IS WATCHING. Thanks to Bush of course.
Interviewed an engineer at ATT about the massive funneling of data and voice traffic into the NSA’s analysis centers. At first we looked into doing the interview directly with this guy, who we call Deep Packet, and masking his voice with digital effects. When we realized just what sort of processing power the NSA has available to them we decided that was not good enough to protect our source.
Top 10 Strangest gadgets. I need all 10, clearly.
This one is for my friend Mark: Mercedes SLK beats Ferrari Enzo