Here’s a picture from the gardens of Kilkenny Castle, where we were today. This is the butler house of the castle:

After confirming for the fourth consecutive night that Irish pubs do indeed stop serving the food from their menu at around 6:00 PM, Laura and I strolled around until we found a Chinese restaurant. Yep, Chinese in Kilkenny, Ireland. Here’s a picture from tonight; it was beautiful out and the temperature was great:

One rumor I had totally blown off about Apple was the potential switch from IBM’s PowerPC processors to Intel processors for their Macintosh product line. I even thought the Slashdot post may have been a hoax. I am out of town in Baltimore this week, so I will try to catch the stream of the WWDC keynote later. I will probably wait a couple of days; this is a bit of a shock to me. Perhaps after I have had a couple of days to process this the keynote will be more digestible.

This makes me even more angry with the jerk that fraudulently subverted my 17″ PowerBook auction.

So I had mentioned that I was selling the first of a couple of PowerBooks on eBay the other day. To my surprise, someone invoked the “Buy It Now” option and ended the auction last night. No complaints here, right?

Wrong. Here is the address information for the “winner”:

Steven Budd
13801 Sherman Way Blvd.
Suite 5
Van Nuys, CA 91405
(609) 765-7899
bstv4@aol.com

Turns out the person created the account shortly before purchasing the item. The street address is pretty close to being valid, in Van Nuys, CA. The phone number is an invalid one in Trenton, NJ. The person hasn’t responded to three messages. So, they haven’t tried to get the hardware by ripping me off, they just simply faked an account and closed out my auction early.

There were several other 17″ PowerBooks being auctioned that ended the same day as mine, so I am wondering if the competition employed this cowardly tactic to thin out the choices for prospective buyers.

Wanker.