January 20, 2004

I'm finishing up a paper for my Writing II class this morning, so of course I'm online doing anything to keep my mind off of it. I went to check my email and stumbled across an interesting story on yahoo. Looks like our friends at Microsoft are a lil hot under the collar over a 17 year old high school student with part time web design business. Mike Rowe has been told he has to hand over his webiste www.mikerowesoft.com because of copyright infringement. They are willing to give him a whole $10 in compensation for the domain name. Mike fired back that he wanted $10,000 for it because he's going to be out for expenses such as buisness cards, and all the work he's put into creating a name for himself in the web design field. Now Microsoft has sent him a nice thick book of legal papers claiming he created the name to sell for a large cash settlement. This 17 year old is gonna lose his business just because Microsoft thinks people will think he's a part of them. Yeah, because Microsoft has people who design websites for other people.

Oh almighty Microsoft, who is your next target gonna be?


January 18, 2004



Well, look at that... Hell froze over. Now I get all those wishes from when I was little right?


May 14, 2003

Well finished up my finals and came home to discover a follow up on yahoo about our lovable little iLoo. Looks like our friends at Microsoft got just a smidge bit embarassed by their iLoo press. On Monday they claimed it was a hoax, but Tuesday they fessed up to the idea being a legitimate project their British offices had been workin on. Canceling the project, it looks like this idea's been flushed down the drain.

Come on guys, if your gonna lie you gotta live the lie.


May 7, 2003

I came home from class and popped up good ol yahoo and laughed so hard I almost pissed my pants. But that’s ok, our friends at MSN are working on the solution to this very situation. They are in the process of developing the iLoo. That’s right boys and girls, a Johnny-on-the-Spot that’s plugged into the net. They debut this summer in the UK.

With an adjustable height plasma screen you won't have to worry bout that kink in your neck while surfin the net on the pot. Then there's the toilet paper with website addresses on them, finally you'll be able to wipe your ass with www.microsoft.com. To top everything off, the keyboard is going to be waterproof. At least they know what their target demographic is gonna be up to.



I think I'll be wearing gloves.


April 29, 2003

While I was watching The Daily Show last night John Stewart held a debate between our President George W. Bush, and the Texan Governor George W. Bush. Ok, ok, so it was really just bouncing back and forth between speeches he's made during and after the recent war in Iraq, and the Presidential debates he took part in before the election. The thing is it was an absolutely riveting debate. Here are a few excerpts.

John - Why is the United States of America using its power to change governments in foreign countries?
President Bush - We must stand up for our security and for the permanent rights and the hopes of mankind. The United States of American will make that stand.
Governor Bush - Yeah, I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

John - Why are we in Iraq?
President Bush - We will be, um, changing the regime of Iraq, for the good of the Iraqi people.
Governor Bush - If we're an arrogant nation they'll, they'll resent us. I think one way for us to end up being, uh, viewed as the Ugly American is for us to go around the world saying, "We do it this way so should you."

John - Is the idea to just build a new country that we like better?
President Bush - We will tear down the apparatus of terror, and we will help you to build a new Iraq, that is prosperous and free.
Governor Bush - I don't think our troops ought to be used for what is called nation building.



It's amazing how much these 2 differ in opinion, isn't it? And now for your moment of zen.


April 22, 2003

While passing time between classes I stumbled across an article on yahoo that just had me rollin. Madonna, in her infinite wisdom, had decided to pull a fast one on file swappers. She swamped them with fake mp3s in an attempt to halt the downloading of the songs before her new cd, American Life, was released. The mp3s were the length of regular songs, with her saying, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" looped over and over for the entire mp3.

Then Saturday, the Material Girl had to bring her website down for 15 hours to fix one annoyed hackers response. Linking full, unreleased tracks from her new CD for free download, the hacker one-upped her. This just goes to show you don't screw with those who know what they're doin better than you do. ^_^



LMAO

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