There’s a theory that where there is a box, there is a cat in it; the outcome may differ when you inspect it.
Taken with Canon EOS 60D and Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens.
- ISO: 3200
- Focal Length: 50mm
- Aperture: f/4.5
- Exposure time: 1/60
The Last Night of Monty Python
From MontyPythonLive.com:
24 April 2014
“Thanks to the wonderful invention of moving pictures, The Last Night of Monty Python is coming to a cinema near you. Get your knotted handkerchiefs out and warm your brains one last time at any one of 450 cinemas across the UK, and 1500 across the world. Join the crowd live from London’s O2 in a final weepy, hilarious, uproarious, outrageous, farewell to the five remaining Pythons as they head for The Old Jokes Home …. On the big screen, in HD.” The Pythons
I watched Monty Python’s Flying Circus on rerun back in the 80’s. Apparently I was not old enough to really understand the jokes back then. In the late 90’s I rediscovered them and actually collected all the episodes on DVDs.
Apple: Earnings and Stock Split
From Apple PR:
CUPERTINO, California—April 23, 2014—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended March 29, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $45.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $10.2 billion, or $11.62 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $43.6 billion and net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.3 percent compared to 37.5 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Notable numbers:
- iPhone sales increase 17% Year Over Year from 37 million to 43 million units
- iPad sales decrease 16% Year Over Year from 19 million to 16 million units
- Mac Sales increase 5% Year Over Year from 3.9 million to 4.1 million units
Also from Apple PR:
The Board of Directors has also announced a seven-for-one stock split. Each Apple shareholder of record at the close of business on June 2, 2014 will receive six additional shares for every share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on June 9, 2014.
Does that mean I could finally buy 10 Apple Stocks instead of none?
Apple Releases Security Update 2014-002 for OS X Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks
Apple Releases Security Update 2014-002.
Security Update 2014-002 is recommended for all users and improves the security of OS X
Security Update 2014-002 also includes Safari 7.0.3.
Security Update 2014-002 Mavericks
Security Update 2014-002 is recommended for all users and improves the security of OS X. This update also includes Safari 7.0.3.
For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
For information on the content of Safari 7.0.3, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6195
For some reasons, Apple website is using Lion image for OS X Mavericks Security Update 2014-002. Someone is not paying attention to the detail.
Apple Seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D45a
Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D45a to Developers earlier today.
According to a person who is claiming to be a high ranking Apple employee that is not Phil Schiller, OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 release might be accompanied with some hardware refresh.
Firefox 29.0 Beta 9
Firefox 29.0 Beta 9 is now available for download.
Hard-Disk Drive Failure
This definitely has “You’re Screwed” written all over it, especially if you’re in the middle of something important.
The computer suddenly rebooted and display the message:
“Hard-disk drive failure”
You can only hope the backup system really works.