It’s as if a Mac Mini made it with a bento box. Some pretty respectable specs, too bad for that last line, and the fact it’s a Dell. Does Dell offer free Windows downgrades or refunds? Sabayon or FreeBSD would match it so well, even down to the colour schemes.
Don’t you just love my posts with disparate sentences strung together without any cohesive train of thought? Train and Thought start with the same Romaji. Wait, is Th and T considered separate? I think I’ll stop now while I’m ahead.
Got an email this morning from Google claiming one of their advertising products will be retroactively branded as DoubleClick. Huh?
I’m typing this post from a small café next to our hotel in Dublin and boy it’s freezing! There’s snow lightly falling outside and the footpaths are slick with ice which has caused more than a few bruises in the last few days, but we’ve still been thoroughly enjoying ourselves! Anyway I was going to save blogging until I got back to Singapore, but I couldn’t resist when I saw the above ad.
Some less than stellar news about Palm is being reported by Kevin Kelleher over at GigaOm.
The latest grim plot twist came last week when Palm reported its fiscal second-quarter earnings. Smartphones sold to consumers fell 4 percent from a year ago, before Palm even debuted the Pre. A costly ad campaign sank gross margins to 25.6 percent from 27.9 percent a quarter earlier.
rubenerd,
As mentioned last week, because you’ve posted articles, photos or video to NowPublic [I have?], our sister site [redacted], is now personally inviting you to also become an Examiner for the US or Canadian city where you live – chose from 160 – or for one of the two national editions.
(emphasis added)
If this was an autogenerated email, it wouldn’t have taken much effort for them to see that I’m clearly not from either place! I suppose it’s too much to ask for spam to at least be slightly relevant ;).
Unfortunately with Digital Restriction Management systems that’s simply not true.
Presumably the agency Kaspersky Labs hired to plaster their advertising everywhere didn’t bother to do a user agent lookup when they presented me with this graphic. Unless they have a FreeBSD anti virus solution of which I’m not presently nor currently aware that I’d want to "Say G’Day to". I guess one could release such a product for users of Wine and Mono ;-).
I need to install AdBlock Plus in Firefox in this VM, or set up some Opera filters!
Since I switched to Opera 10 as my primary browser when I got fed up with Firefox’s constant crashes and sluggish performance (a topic for a future post) I’ve started noticing ads again. Need to set up some filters now that I don’t have AdBlock Plus any more! Anyway, I saw this advertisement on a news site which redirects to the gargantuanly-titled Australian Interactive Media Industry Association article that’s talking ’bout my generation, titled Getting Inside Gen Y.
Much like my friend Frank Nora, I’m a logo nerd, so when news like this appears I pownce on it. Oh great, that failed website has stuffed up my spelling. Big news: The ANZ Bank is in the process of changing their logo.
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