The results are in from the great "Man vs. Machine" computer poker showdown in Vancouver, with the humans coming out on top by a narrow margin. But the main result of the exercise was mutual respect, on the part of the computer programmers as well as the poker pros.

Must be a better program than Vista's Hold 'Em.

In a moment we've been waiting for since the first time we saw The Jetsons, the first flying car has finally gone on sale. Just like the car George uses to drop off the kids, the Moller M200G Volantor is shaped like a saucer. To avoid the need to pass FAA regulations, the civilian version of the Volantor is restricted to heights of 10 feet, but can travel as fast as 50mph and fly for up to 90minutes.

Moller has been at this for years, made a lot of announcements, yet never delivered.

iPhone availability is not guaranteed at time of appointment.

Two Democratic members of the Federal Communications Commission have lent their support to an open-access wireless network proposal, giving it a majority backing, but stopped short of supporting a broader provision proposed by Google.

Why am I not surprised?

I'm already using mowser for the links on my mobile blog, but now I'm also using some of its PHP code to display thumbnails.

Russ gave me some of his code for generating thumbnails on the fly. The funny thing is that Russ and I originally met online when I sent him some Java code to create thumbnails for a scrapbook webapp he had created. I guess he's returning the favor.

Thanks, Russ!

According to Net Applications, in June

Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%. Vista has grown its usage share each month since its release to consumers Jan. 30, hitting 0.93% in February, 2.04% in March, 3.02% in April and 3.74% in May. Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, accounted for 6.22% in January and hit its high point of 6.46% in May, but it slipped back to 6% in June.

Does it mean that Mac users are surfing less and less, yet Apple is selling more macs?