Another Day, Another Year Older

11 Comments »March 20th, 2008

Today is indeed a depressing day. Another mile on my odometer. The striking of my biological clock, lets out a sad groaning tone - it’s my Birthday!

“Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass that’s somehow connected to birth.” - Hugh Elliott

Robert Scoble Needs a “Twittervention”

3 Comments »March 7th, 2008

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Secret Crush: The Spam Who Loved Me

5 Comments »January 21st, 2008

Spam has always been a problem with social networks, but now even FaceBook is slowly devolving into a social spamwork site, as the young company looks for new ways to generate revenues. It’s bad enough the service constantly beckons me to spam all of my friends with every new app I add to my profile, or notify them every time my bowels move. Now they’ve introduced new ploys to integrate ads into their service, turning user notification space into ads. (more…)

1993 Just Called, AT&T Wants Its Technology Back.

3 Comments »January 14th, 2008

AT&T’s vision of a technological future, as seen from 1993, largely came true; but not in the totalitarian telecommunications controlled scheme it envisioned… thank God. Watch the video, have a laugh, then sit speechless as you realize we are now living in the world depicted in this ad. “You are”.

Vista… the OS that Wipes Your Ass and Clogs Your Toilet

3 Comments »January 13th, 2008

We all know that Vista is a shitty operating system, but I’ll bet you didn’t know that it also dispenses toilet paper and comes with a free plunger. Aero never looked so good… next to a toilet. Always remember to wash your hands after each use.

Microsoft Bob. The Graphical Interface that Wasn’t

5 Comments »December 4th, 2007

Bob, for those of you who don’t know, was Microsoft’s misguided effort to develop a friendly graphical interface for common consumers, back in the mid-1990s. Apparently Microsoft believed that home users were too either stupid to use a computer or lacked the aptitude and adaptive learning to ever use one. The solution they came up with was to turn Window’s desktop shell into a hideous task-based cartoon environment, complete with animated characters. The idea never took off, fortunately, but from Bob’s ashes rose an even more dreaded figure that would make it’s way into MS Office; the infamous “Clippy” office assistant.

Monday Motivational: Limitations

No Comments »March 26th, 2007