Thanks to a super-human effort by Geoff I have migrated to Wordpress. It is something I have been talking about for a long time and with Geoff's help was finally able to make it happen.

The new url is http://thegibsons.wordpress.com/

www.thegibsons.com will be redirected to the new site.

See you there.

-Jess

Here are a couple of reviews by Robert Scoble and Dave Winer that I wanted to share.

I am more in the Scoble camp regarding the iPhone.

A great article by Michael Gartner that Alex posted on his blog.

This is for Geoff

It hurts just watching the video.

This is wrong in so many ways.

A woman in Dallas paid $800 to be first line at the AT&T store with a plan to by up all the iPhones in the store so she could sell them on eBay. Thing is you can only buy one iPhone per person - snap! Check out the news report.

If you are an Apple fan, even if you are not, you should be reading the Fake Steve Jobs blog - it's a hoot.

Great interview on CNet today.

Tuesday night I was working on my laptop at the dining room table getting caught up on work and Bev was flicking channels on the TV. She ran across "Secret Lives of Women" on we.tv - the episode was a repeat about couples who are swingers.

I was half listening, but not really paying attention, when Bev called me over to see a specific bit. She rewound (TiVo is a godsend, in case you did not already know that) and we watched the bit about a woman who lives in San Jose. Then they cut to her husband.
I am watching him for a few seconds thinking he looks familiar then he starts to talk and I know where I know him - he used to work with me at Apple. Then they showed his name and it confirmed what I had just figured out - it was Brian McGiffert.

He and his wife are very comfortable with their lifestyle and during part of the episode the camera followed them around as they prepared for a party. I am a live and let live kind of guy, so their choice of lifestyle does not bother me. But as they prepared for the party, during the party, and the next morning the cameras showed probably more than I wanted to know about for someone that I used to work with.

Granted I have not seen Brian in years, but if the episode had featured someone I was currently working with I have to think that the next encounter at the coffee pot would be (said in best Jon Stewart impression) - Akwwaaard.

Now a study in Science proves that the first born is smarter - take that bro. Unfortunately you need a subscription to see the full article.

Here is an article that was in the San Jose Mercury News

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Families' eldest boys do best on tests
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID AP Science Writer
Article Launched: 06/22/2007 11:57:02 AM PDT

WASHINGTON—Boys at the top of the pecking order—either by birth or because their older siblings died—score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers. The question of whether firstborn and only children are really smarter than those who come along later has been hotly debated for more than a century.

Norwegian researchers now report that it isn't a matter of being born first, but growing up the senior child, that seems to result in the higher IQ scores.
Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal report their findings in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

It's a matter of what they call social rank in the family—the highest scores were racked up by the senior boy—the first born or, if the firstborn had died in infancy, the next oldest.

Kristensen, of Norway's National Institute of Occupational Health, and Bjerkedal, of the Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services, studied the IQ test results of 241,310 Norwegian men drafted into the armed forces between 1967 and 1976. All were aged 18 or 19 at the time.
The average IQ of first-born men was 103.2, they found.

Second-born men averaged 101.2, but second-born men whose older sibling died in infancy scored 102.9.

And for third-borns, the average was 100.0. But if both older siblings died young, the third-born score rose to 102.6.

The findings provide "evidence that the relation between birth order and IQ score is dependent on the social rank in the family and not birth order as such," they concluded.

It's an issue that has perplexed people since at least 1874, when Sir Francis Galton reported that men in prominent positions tend to be firstborns more often than would have been statistically expected.

Since then, several studies have reported higher intelligence scores for firstborns, while other analyses have questioned those findings and the methodology of the reports.

While the Norwegian analysis focused on men, other studies have included women, some indicating a birth-order effect and some not.
Frank J. Sulloway of the Institute for Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, welcomed what he called the Norwegians' "elegantly designed" analysis.

"These two researchers demonstrate that how study participants were raised, not how they were born, is what actually influences their IQs," said Sulloway, who was not part of the research team.

The elder child pulls ahead, he said, perhaps as a result of learning gained through the process of tutoring younger brothers and sisters.

The older child benefits by having to organize and express its thoughts to tutor youngsters, he said, while the later children may have no one to tutor.

Just finished watching the MTV Music Awards - a little mindless TV on a Sunday night. But I watched "60 Minutes" right after it so the night was a wash intellectually.

Any whoo - Sarah Silverman was the host and her opening dialog was like no other award showing opening. Check it out here. I don't think Ms Hilton was none too pleased.

If you know me you know the truth. (Check out his t-shirt)



Found this on Macsimum News

I was listening to Tim Goodman's latest Podcast (he is a TV critic and if you aren't reading his blog or column in the San Francisco Chronicle you are missing out) and he was discussing new shows for this fall. One new show is a remake of The Bionic Woman and it lead to a conversation about Lindsay Wagner and how her performance in the show was a "seminal moment" in a young man's life.

Think about it.

Call it a mid-life crisis purchase.
Call it a 45th birthday gift for myself.
Call it a 20-year wedding anniversary gift for us.

No matter what you call it the result is the same - I (uh, I mean WE) bought a Saab 2000 9-3 Convertible this weekend. It has been my dream car for too many years to remember and I am glad to be back in a Saab again and love the freedom of going topless.

Anyone looking for a good deal on 2000 Toyota Landcruiser ;-)