No surprise here.

InformationWeek reports:

Microsoft’s Halo 3 racked up $170 million in sales on its first day of availability, making it the hottest-selling title in video game history.

Microsoft said late Wednesday that the game’s sales easily surpassed first-day sales for Halo 2, which previously held the record. Halo 2 launched in 2004 and posted $125 million in sales on its first day.

Halo 3, which hit shelves on Tuesday, also broke industry records for presales. Retailers took more than 1.7 million preorders for the game, which runs on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. More than 1 million gamers played the game online over Microsoft’s Xbox Live system on launch day — another record for the software maker.

The entire article is here.

I use Google Analytics to analyze my blog traffic.  In particular, it helps me undertand what search keywords people are using to discover this blog.

As it turns out, I’m not the only one looking for an 1.8 to 3.5 IDE adapter.  A number of people have landed here while searching for this elusive adapter.

So for their benefit, I purchased an adapter from 1topstore.com.  It was shipped from Hong Kong and arrived a few weeks later.  The price was reasonable and the unit worked perfectly.

Today I had the pleasure of sharing my GTD-inspired email and task management system with a group of human resources professionals at IBM Canada.

In my presentation, I point out that a poorly defined task can lead to procrastination.  One simple way to increase the likelihood of getting something done is to actually articulate the physical action required to perform the task.

Coincidentally, I just ran across an article, entitled “Dear Me: Get to work“, that discusses this in more detail.  In a nutshell, the author suggests:

Write your tasks as if you are delegating them to someone you actually know.

He offers some examples to bring it home.

I’m really enjoying Marc Andreessen’s blog.

In a recent post, he does an excellent job explaining the concept of the “Internet platform” and outlines 3 types of platforms.

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Deb from Toronto’s CityEvents sent this invitation:

ideaNation & TD Canada Trust Presents: “Great Leaders Who Inspire Greatness In All of Us”.

Featuring Frank O’Dea, co-founder of Second Cup and a great humanitarian.  Frank has an incredible story which he tells in his just released book called “All We Have Is Hope”.

If you have not heard Frank’s story of how he was living on a park bench as an alcoholic until age 35 and then went on to start Second Cup, Proshred Security and champion the launch of countless charities including War Child (Canada), Street Kids International, CANFAR and Canadian International Landmine Foundation - get ready to be inspired!

Join us for an inspiring evening that demonstrates how a single individual can overcome the most dire circumstances and create profound social impact from local community to across the globe.

Date: Tuesday, September 25th
Time: 6:00pm (Reception) 7:00pm (Talk)
Place: The Westin Harbour Castle Toronto, Harbour Ballroom (2nd Floor)
Price: $25 (all proceeds in support of ideaNation)

To purchase tickets visit: www.ideanation.eventbrite.com

As much as I love music, I simply can’t deal with morning radio. 

There are only so many commercials for alarm systems, vacation getaways, and “once-in-a-lifetime” mattress sales that any man can take.  As a result, I’ve turned to listening to audio books and podcasts to pass the time during the commute.

Since a number of people have asked for recommendations, here are some of my favourites:

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The next DemoCamp, DemoCampToronto14, is scheduled for Monday, September 17, 2007 at the Toronto Board of Trade (1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, ON).   The bar open a 5:30 PM. The demos begin at 6:30 PM.

Registration is required, but the event is free. You can register at EventBrite.

What is DemoCamp?

DemoCamp is a variation of the un-conference style of event, started by the TorCamp group as an excuse to have more regular meetings where community members share what they’ve been working on, demo their products, meet others (and share a drink or 3).

A paper I co-authored was accepted into the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007).  The conference will be held at the University of Vienna, Austria

The paper is titled “Efficient Bulk Deletes for Multi Dimensionally Clustered Tables in DB2“.

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I have added a contact page (using the cforms II plugin).

If you’re too shy to post a comment, use the contact page to send me a message.