Steve Jobs takes a leave of absence and COO Tim Cook takes over day to day operations of Apple:

Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.

I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve

The rumored Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton fight hits a snag.  Team Pacquiao insists on a 60-40 revenue sharing with the lion share, of course, being taken by Manny Pacquiao.  I’ve also read some reports that Team Pacquiao is even insisting on a 65-35 deal.

Ricky Hatton is insisting on a 50-50 deal because, one, it was already verbally guaranteed by promoter Bob Arum and, two, because, he’ll be bringing a lot of paying British folks.

Ricky Hatton’s lawyer points out that while Manny Pacquiao is big in the Philippines, Filipinos won’t go to Las Vegas or pay to watch via pay-per view. Read more »

For fun, I tried searching the Net for free downloads of Limewire Pro.  The search results contained one Digg submission that claims there is a free and legal download of Limewire Pro.  The submission is aptly called “Limewire Pro, for free, legally!“.

I followed this submission on Digg and found that the article about Limewire Pro Free Download has actually 2052 Diggs!  I’m thinking this can’t be true so I clicked on the Digg link so I would be taken to the original article. Read more »

Well, like they always say, better late than never…

For the past couple of weeks, there have been rumors milling about a sex video scandal that may have involved Katrina Halili and Hayden Kho.  Filipinos know that Katrina Halili is a popular sexy and beautiful actress and Hayden Kho is a young and handsome doctor involved romantically with Vicky Belo, owner of the Belo Medical Group, one of the best beauty clinics in the Philippines.

Of course, Hayden Kho denies that there is a Katrina Halili and Hayden Kho Sex Video Scandal.  Katrina Halili also denies it. Read more »

Google has a new favicon again.  Don’t worry, that’s normal.  Seriously, it’s normal.

Apparently, users were encourage to submit ideas.  From these ideas, one submission was re-interpreted to produce the final icon.

I like that it has the same colorful elements but I don’t like it still.

What. Ever.