Author: Gabriel

Microsoft ain’t #1 no more

I’m fairly sure that Microsoft missed the ‘software as a service’ boat not for any reason other than, as stated in this Fortune article, the fact that it was afraid that pursuing it back in 2001/2002 meant it had to go up against its centralized ‘software for desktop’ approach, where it is no doubt king.

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.

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itechmobile.net all ready

My client, Itechmobile.net, is about 90% finished.

They are the local distributors of Digital Audio / Video Players and recorder manufacturer Archos, featuring the spectacular Archos AV400, an unbelievable little handheld machine that plays DVRs, mp3s, mpeg4, jpegs and what-have-you, with up to 100gb storage.

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Doom – the best video game to movie adaptation ever?

Who would’ve thought that a movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would have any impact at all. In fact, we only ended up watching it because for some odd reason, The Corpse Bride was unceremoniously pulled out mid-week, and we were left with either watching the 40 Year Old Virgin twice, which I didn’t mind because it was completely hilarious, or Dubai twice, which I would’ve minded as it would have numbed me of all feeling.

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