Archives for: February 2006
I can draw too
Since Catherine posted up her awesome sketches. I thought I should post up one of my leet drawings too. 100% created on a Tablet PC.

Moo Hugger alert!
I've been warning of the danger that this Moo creature poses, now it's finally attacked Catherine.

After several hours the Moo creature just dropped off and appeared to of died. Hopefully that's the end of it.
Google fails to see vistas
I just typed Windows Vista into Google, they added that image thing to the web search now too, the three images it shows up are all of Windows XP.

Oh dear. Windows XP, Windows XP and Windows XP. Not one screenshot of Windows Vista. Before anyone points out - the first one is just a themed Windows XP. It's not Windows Vista.
This is pretty disappointing. Even on the image specific search. Only one of the images is of Windows Vista - which is running inside Virtual PC so it doesn't have the cool UI, the other two a hacked Windows XP - and Windows XP.
If you go and do the same search on MSN Search you'll see not one image on the first page is of Windows XP - they're all of Windows Vista itself or of related artwork or photographs, I've even gone back several pages and the results are still good.
I know there's a lot of results for Windows Vista and a lot of them are junk. But come on, aren't Google suppose to be good at sorting out the junk?
Google 0 - 1 Microsoft.
SN 2006X
About 56 million years ago a star, exploded into what we call a Type 1A Supernovae.

Click for a before and after shot
Here it is announcing itself to us, we first detected this about 3 weeks ago and it's around peek brightness now, over time it will fade back down and we'll probabaly never see it again.
I love supernovae, that one star outshines everything in it's galaxy. All the other stars in that image around the same brightness are actually in our galaxy - so they're around ten thousand times closer.
Now if only Eta Carina would finally go, or better yet something I can see from the northern hemisphere!
Windows Server takes lead... everyone else files lawsuits
Just as it's announced Windows Server bumps Unix out the way to take the top slot in the server OS market, Microsoft's old friends take them to court again.
[The] companies were responding to innovation with litigation.
"We have come to expect that as we introduce new products that benefit consumers, particularly with the kind of breakthrough technologies in Office 12 and Windows Vista, a few competitors will complain," it said.
I'm getting pretty bored with all this, IBM, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Linspire and RealNetworks - let's use them as an example. How any company can bundle spy and adware with it's software, then rightfully get cut down by a far superior music player and then win against Microsoft in court is just beyond me. Something is seriously broken in Brussels, we'll see how broken in the coming months.
May be if people spend less time taking Microsoft to court and more time writing decent software they'd actually get somewhere.
Stamping out the contraband network
I don't like people messing with me. Roodis announced his contraband network a while ago, now this seems to be like a blatant act of war, how someone could want so badly to destroy the community around the dasmirnov.net websites is beyond me.

So here's my first salvo. The daFilm and daMusic Portal sites. They'll move in and cut the contraband's primary advantage out from beneath him - once his film and music sites have been destroyed, an already extensive portfolio of gaming websites will unite and utterly crush the contraband network into oblivion.
You've not got long left Mr Contraband, I suggest you strike a deal (say 30%?) while you still can.








28th February 2006 02:45:39, 24 words, 729 views