birthday thoughts

Frustratingly enough, it took Buy and Sell a whole hour to lay out a simple 3 line text-only ad, and I have to admit my patience was fairly tested when the designer kept insisting on skewing and stretching the text to “fill up the space para sulit”. I’m everything for making the most out of my investment, but jeez how hard is it to type, as in literally just type the URL, “free classifieds” and another line of text.

Could we have that in writing?

How about open-source sofware you say? The fact that it’s not been widely accepted by the cafes just means, to me, that it’s failed to provide a suitable alternative. I think the last paragraph in the article (it’s since been edited) where, a cafe owner threatened, more or less, that he was the BSA’s clampdown on them was “forcing them to think about open source software”, only makes me wonder one thing: Why don’t you?

PC Exchange Now Up!

I’ve finally gotten around to putting up PC Exchange, a simple classifieds site for the moment, completely devoid of any frills until I determine what else I might think of putting.

Microsoft ain’t #1 no more

It just makes sense. See, MS Office has been Microsoft’s big money making monster for years, a collection of bloated elephantine over-featured over-done software which everybody used or had to use. Microsoft therefore has to support the concept of individual installations (and licenses) of software on individual machines – the foundation of their business.

But here came the concept of ‘software as a service’, delivering software on the web, and Microsoft had a choice, either go with that, or defend it’s chosen foundation to the hilt, and now we know it did that – to it’s detriment.

what is wrong in this picture?

Truth is, I’ve known that Smart’s MMS blogging service has been showing porn for quite a while now, I actually think such things are pretty much the norm nowadays. Whether it’s Friendster, MySpace, Blogspot, or using MMS, SMS, HTTP, or whatever, porn will always prevail. Goodness, if you can setup a prepaid for adults only ISP service offering downloadable porn for free (one of my our ideas way back), you can get cash registers a-ringing for sure!

Doom – the best video game to movie adaptation ever?

Which brings me to this point, where I will sadly bewail the other end of the spectrum, the worst video game to movie adaptaion imho, Tomb Raider, which for the most part I wouldn’t mind at all, I mean a sucky movie’s just a sucky movie, except for one thing – you will probably not find a bigger fan of Lara Croft than me.

It was a pioneering first person game to begin with, but the characters absolute lack of fear and ‘astig’ factor just blew me away. As far as the first version Lara is concerned, she had no room for fancy gadgets, relying on deft skill, smarts, and dexterity. As long Lara had her pistols, all was good.