Seems like the last three weeks have been a complete blur. We just came back from Puerto Rico. It was fun but I wouldn’t go back. We stayed at the Wyndham El Conquistadore. They screwed up our reservation but sorted it out after much heckling. It was nice but we payed far too much for what was delivered.

I’m back on the Perricone tip these days, eating all sorts of weird stuff including Flax Seed Oil, Omega 3, Salmon, Beans, Lentils, Spinach and Sprouts. Enough to make a grown man cry but it’s actually not that bad. I’ve found myself craving Cantaloupe (no not Cantaloop: Flip Fantasia).

I don’t watch much TV but last night I caught the end of The Discovery Channel’s special on Daniel Tammet, a sauvant who can recall Pi to 22,500 places. He’s unique in the sense that unlike other sauvants, he can communicate normally and hence provide insight into how he perceives the world. Quite interesting to hear him describe prime numbers as “smooth and shiny” whereas non-primes have texture.

The theory is that the area of his brain devoted to math is cross-linked with the area normally devoted to spatial reasoning. Hence he experiences numbers as objects.

He doesn’t recall Pi, per sae, rather he thinks about it, then describes the shape(number) that he sees in his mind. Fascinating.

The Xbox 360 is coming, pics have been released and it looks quite nice both in form and function. 6 parallel threads executing in a PowerPC based chip. Maybe Apple and Microsoft aren’t that different after all.

Still ploughing through VStudio 2005 new features. This week I discovered Properties, the “Export Template” wizard, the Table Layout for WinForms and a bunch of other stuff. Really liking it although Beta 2 is still a little unstable. I found it choking on custom controls a bunch of times.

Feedback from the latest MSDN article has been good. It got posted to the Indonesia version of MSDN today and Karen’s SQL Blog from Pinnacle makes a nice mention. Cheers.

Last thing: I finished the DaVinci Code. It was not worth the read. I think the movie will be equally unimpressive, ‘specially with Tom Hanks playing Robert Langford. Oh dear.