Over at Google Sightseeing they have a information about Hart Island. Apparently it is an island off of New York which is only a cemetary.
Seems like good Halloween fodder to me.
You’ve got Microsoft!
The Windows Vista team responded to a recent Robert Scoble blog entry talking about a non-customizable “Signature” sound for the logon screen. They said here…
The idea behind this is that it will help the PC user know that their sound is working correctly, its current volume setting, and that the PC is prepped for music and video playback upon log-in.
That is the biggest BS marketing line if I have ever heard one. It isn’t MICROSOFT’s COMPUTER, it is mine and I shall customize it as I see fit! Not Redmond.
What they DO want is for everyone to hear it when you and others log in so that Microsoft will get market recognition. Just like that Nextel sound when you use the Instant Walkie Talkie, you know those beeps. Everyone used it, and whenever you hear it, you know it is Nextel.
Found Via ITT at KevinDevin.com
Googling for Books
I see that Google now offers downloads of some out of copywrite book on its Book Search. I think that this is great and all but is this really better that Geutenberg project. The 2 PDFs that I download from Google were literal scans to PDF, pictures of the book itself. Not very flexible to put on a book Reader.
Comic for Aug 30th
Finally after all this planning I have something up! It is a start and I see that I still need some work on lettering and speechballoons, but I am excited to see where all this takes me, us, everyone.
Posting comics will be spotty at first but I plan on making this a daily thing, So […]
68 Corvette finds it’s way back home.
This is an amazing story…Guy buys Vette, looses Vette, and gets it back 37 years later.
Fat Superheroes need Love too!
Recently Scott Johnson started a Fat Superheroes Pool on Flickr, and there are some good ones on there. I made aFat Spiderman and uploaded it, check it out.
Windows..Sound Off!
You have got to be kidding me. Microsoft wont allow us to turn off the Start Up sound..or Configure it?
Forget that.
Speechballoons
I found this via Digg.com…the Evolution of Speechballoons.
How appropriate since I am getting my own comic together.
Mass., Microsoft Office, and ODF
Looks like Mass. is going to use the ODF plugin on MS Office instead of moving to OpenOffice all together as ZDNet Reports.
Is this good? I think so. I don’t have a problem with anyone using Microsoft Office, I do have a problem with requiring people to use Microsoft Office to view public documents or do business with your customers. This has been an MS problem for a long time, locking customers in with propritary formats. This should force them to compete on features, which Office is good at.